Remove deprecated features.inline-agents guidance from workflow instructions

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✨ Enhancement

features.inline-agents is now always enabled and no longer required. This change removes stale guidance and frontmatter usage so instruction sources and compiled workflows consistently reflect current behavior.

What does this improve?

• Workflow instruction updates
  • Removed features.inline-agents: true from affected .github/workflows/*.md instruction files.
  • Updated optimizer/instruction content that previously checked for or recommended adding the flag.
• Shared guidance alignment
  • Revised .github/aw/subagents.md language from “deprecated/no-op” to explicit “remove this field” guidance.
• Generated workflow consistency
  • Recompiled workflow lock artifacts so .lock.yml outputs match updated source instructions.

Why is this valuable?

• Eliminates contradictory setup guidance across authoring docs and workflow definitions.
• Reduces unnecessary frontmatter noise and prevents propagation of deprecated patterns in new workflow edits.

Implementation approach:

• Searched instruction and workflow markdown for features.inline-agents references.
• Removed frontmatter entries and rewrote only guidance sections that implied opt-in behavior.
• Recompiled workflows to synchronize generated artifacts.

# before
features:
  inline-agents: true

# after
# (removed; inline sub-agents are always enabled)

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Pull request overview

Removes stale guidance and configuration around the deprecated features.inline-agents flag now that inline sub-agents are always enabled, and recompiles generated workflow artifacts to match.

Changes:

• Removed features: inline-agents: true from affected workflow instruction .md frontmatter files.
• Updated daily-subagent-optimizer instructions/sub-agent contract to stop checking for (or recommending) the flag.
• Updated shared inline sub-agent guidance and regenerated corresponding .lock.yml artifacts to reflect the updated sources.

Show a summary per file

File	Description
.github/workflows/unbloat-docs.md	Removes deprecated features.inline-agents from workflow frontmatter.
.github/workflows/unbloat-docs.lock.yml	Regenerated compiled artifact to match updated frontmatter.
.github/workflows/test-quality-sentinel.md	Removes deprecated inline-agents feature flag from frontmatter.
.github/workflows/test-quality-sentinel.lock.yml	Regenerated compiled artifact to match updated frontmatter.
.github/workflows/spec-librarian.md	Removes deprecated inline-agents feature flag from frontmatter.
.github/workflows/spec-librarian.lock.yml	Regenerated compiled artifact to match updated frontmatter.
.github/workflows/smoke-copilot.md	Removes deprecated features.inline-agents block from frontmatter.
.github/workflows/smoke-copilot.lock.yml	Regenerated compiled artifact to match updated frontmatter.
.github/workflows/developer-docs-consolidator.md	Removes deprecated features.inline-agents block from frontmatter.
.github/workflows/developer-docs-consolidator.lock.yml	Regenerated compiled artifact to match updated frontmatter.
.github/workflows/daily-subagent-optimizer.md	Removes deprecated flag guidance and updates screener sub-agent contract/output format accordingly.
.github/workflows/daily-subagent-optimizer.lock.yml	Regenerated compiled artifact to match updated instruction source.
.github/workflows/daily-security-red-team.md	Removes deprecated features.inline-agents block from frontmatter.
.github/workflows/daily-security-red-team.lock.yml	Regenerated compiled artifact to match updated frontmatter.
.github/workflows/daily-firewall-report.md	Removes deprecated features.inline-agents block from frontmatter.
.github/workflows/daily-firewall-report.lock.yml	Regenerated compiled artifact to match updated frontmatter.
.github/workflows/claude-code-user-docs-review.md	Removes deprecated inline-agents feature flag from frontmatter.
.github/workflows/claude-code-user-docs-review.lock.yml	Regenerated compiled artifact to match updated frontmatter.
.github/workflows/aw-failure-investigator.md	Removes deprecated features.inline-agents block from frontmatter.
.github/workflows/aw-failure-investigator.lock.yml	Regenerated compiled artifact to match updated frontmatter.
.github/workflows/agent-performance-analyzer.md	Removes deprecated inline-agents feature flag from frontmatter.
.github/workflows/agent-performance-analyzer.lock.yml	Regenerated compiled artifact to match updated frontmatter.
.github/aw/subagents.md	Updates shared guidance to explicitly recommend removing features.inline-agents.

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