feat(cli): make the Skill picker readable and filterable

[harlan-zw]

❓ Type of change

• 👌 Enhancement

📚 Description

The picker opened with every Skill chosen, so on a 33 Skill Repository the fastest path to "I want three of these" was 30 keystrokes of unchoosing. It opens with nothing chosen now. --all already covers the install-everything case, and an empty list makes the count in the header mean something as you work down.

The rest is legibility. Descriptions ran off the right edge and the marks were [x] and [ ] in plain white:

[x] floating-ui-vue-skilld  Floating UI for Vue. ALWAYS use when writing code importing \"@floating-ui/vue\". Consu
[x] formkit-core-skilld  The framework agnostic core of FormKit. ALWAYS use when writing code importing \"@formkit/

Now:

skilld-dev/vue-ecosystem-skills names 4 Skills. 1 chosen

  ● floating-ui-vue-skilld  Floating UI for Vue. ALWAYS use when writing code importing …
❯ ○ motion-v-skilld         ALWAYS use when writing code importing "motion-v". Consult …
  ○ pinia-skilld            Intuitive, type safe and flexible Store for Vue.
  ○ vue-router-skilld       ALWAYS use when writing code importing "vue-router".

space choose   a all   enter install   esc cancel

Names align into one column, each description is cut to the terminal width rather than wrapped, chosen marks are green, the cursor row is bold, and the key hints are lit. NO_COLOR turns all of it off.

Choosing 3 Skills from 33 still meant walking the whole list, so / now filters as you type, on name and description:

skilld-dev/vue-ecosystem-skills names 5 Skills. 0 chosen, 2 shown
filter pin█
❯ ○ pinia-colada-skilld  The smart data fetching layer for Vue.js.
  ○ pinia-skilld         Intuitive, type safe and flexible Store for Vue.

type to filter   enter keep it   esc clear

a then takes everything the filter shows, so filter, a, filter, a is the fast path through a big Repository. Chosen Skills survive filter changes, the header counts both, enter keeps the filter and hands the letter keys back, and esc clears the filter before it cancels the picker.

Not in this PR: those \" sequences in the descriptions are real, and they are a skilld.dev indexing bug. The SKILL.md frontmatter is a valid double-quoted YAML scalar, so \"pinia\" should decode to "pinia" when the registry stores it. Fixing that at the source rather than papering over it in the terminal.

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