Recommend weekday scheduling for daily workflows to avoid Monday backlog

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Daily workflows running 7 days accumulate tasks over weekends, creating Monday backlogs. The parser already supports schedule: daily on weekdays (generates * * * * 1-5 cron), but prompts didn't guide users to it.

Changes

.github/aw/create-agentic-workflow.md

• Updated scheduling best practices to recommend daily on weekdays as preferred option over daily
• Added weekday schedule to non-interactive mode defaults
• Explained Monday wall-of-work problem

.github/aw/github-agentic-workflows.md

• Added "Fuzzy Scheduling" section documenting weekday syntax and rationale
• Updated example workflows from explicit cron to fuzzy schedules
• Documented benefits: aligns with business hours, reduces notification noise, prevents work accumulation

Example

# Recommended - runs Monday-Friday only
on:
  schedule: daily on weekdays  # Compiler: 43 5 * * 1-5

# Acceptable but may create Monday backlog  
on:
  schedule: daily  # Compiler: 43 5 * * *

The compiler automatically scatters execution times and adds workflow_dispatch: for manual runs.

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Original prompt

Update prompting instructions to suggest "on weekdays" for "daily" schedules to avoid generating the Monday wall of work. Update prompts in .github/aw/*.md

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Pull request overview

This PR updates workflow scheduling documentation to recommend weekday schedules for daily workflows and standardizes action version references from patch to minor versions (e.g., v6.0.0 → v6).

Changes:

• Documentation now recommends schedule: daily on weekdays as the preferred option to avoid Monday backlogs from weekend task accumulation
• Action version references simplified from patch to minor versions (v6.0.0 → v6, v5.0.0 → v5) across all workflow lock files
• Added new action entries for github/stale-repos@v3 and super-linter/super-linter@v8.2.1 to lock files

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File	Description
.github/aw/create-agentic-workflow.md	Updated scheduling best practices to recommend weekday schedules with rationale
.github/aw/github-agentic-workflows.md	Added comprehensive "Fuzzy Scheduling" section with weekday examples and benefits
pkg/workflow/data/action_pins.json	Changed action version format from patch to minor (v6.0.0 → v6, v5.0.0 → v5)
.github/aw/actions-lock.json	Added new entries for github/stale-repos@v3 and super-linter/super-linter@v8.2.1
.github/workflows/*.lock.yml (60+ files)	Updated action references consistently from patch to minor versions
.github/workflows/agentics-maintenance.yml	Updated upload-artifact reference from v6.0.0 to v6

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