docs(version-sync): add operations guide

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TL;DR

Add a maintainer operations guide for keeping top-of-tree artifact documentation aligned with automatic self-managed stack releases and verified public publications.

Additional Details

The stack tag and GitHub Release are created automatically after a release-worthy stack change merges to main; maintainers do not normally cut the release by hand. The new guide documents that trigger, the combined control-plane, compute-plane, and observability inventory asset, and the separate manual public-publication step.

It also covers routine stack syncs, publication-only updates, adding stack-discovered artifacts, adding independently versioned supplemental artifacts, and removing or excluding artifacts. docs/AGENTS.md links to the guide for discoverability.

Customer Release Notes: Not customer visible.

Plan Summary: Not applicable.

Usage: Follow tools/docs-version-sync/README.md after an automatic self-managed stack release or public artifact publication.

Related Pull Requests: #1813

Dependencies: None. No license review or NOTICE update is required.

For the Reviewer

Please verify the automatic release boundary and the new-artifact flow in tools/docs-version-sync/README.md.

For QA

QA is not needed. This is documentation only.

Validated with:

• go test -C tools/docs-version-sync ./...
• go vet -C tools/docs-version-sync ./...
• ./tools/ci/check-doc-version-sync
• ./tools/ci/check-docs
• git diff --check
• ASCII and documentation-style scans

Issues

Relates to #279

Checklist

• I am familiar with the Contributing Guidelines.
• I have signed off my commits for Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) compliance.
• New or existing tests cover these changes.
• The documentation is up to date with these changes.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Added maintainer guidance for automatic stack releases, publication updates, and artifact registration.
  • Documented catalog and generated-document synchronization workflows.
  • Added guidance for publication records, artifact inventories, supplemental artifacts, removal and exclusion rules, and validation commands.
  • Linked the version synchronization documentation using the correct repository-relative path.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Added maintainer guidance for the docs-version-sync workflow. Added a README that documents release automation, catalog synchronization, publication records, artifact handling, removal rules, and validation commands.

Changes

Docs version-sync workflow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Workflow documentation and maintainer reference docs/AGENTS.md, tools/docs-version-sync/README.md	Added a maintainer link to the docs version-sync README. Documented stack releases, catalog and generated-document synchronization, publication handling, artifact inventory, removal rules, and validation commands.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes

Change: Other

Suggested reviewers: apartha-nv, balajinvda

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 36b45

This documentation-only update has no identified merge-blocking risk.

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In `@docs/AGENTS.md`:
- Line 50: Update the version-sync guide link in AGENTS.md to use
../tools/docs-version-sync/README.md, so it resolves from the docs directory to
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