fix(z-agent): find the highest installed z-mode without a path

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Why

A z-agent whose parent omits or garbles z-mode's path was told only to "locate the installed copy". On this machine that search finds a stale 0.1.0 Claude plugin cache next to the live checkout. cursor/plugins#597 tells the agent where to look and which copy to choose.

What changed

• Both z-agent roles search the configured host root ($CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR or $CODEX_HOME), linked and project-scoped skills, and Claude's recorded local marketplace. They follow symlinks, read each copy's manifest from its real path, pick the highest version compared numerically, and note that explicit-only z-mode can be absent from the skill catalog.
• Manifests move to 0.6.4.

Scope

• The parent still supplies the absolute path; this only changes the fallback.
• Not ported: upstream's frontmatter cleanup (z-mode never had mode or reminder, and the validator rejects them) and its Cursor-only slash-menu note (local docs already cover the picker and /zstack:z-mode).

Verification

• A script following the Claude rule picked a linked 0.10.0 checkout over a cached 0.1.0 copy in custom-config and project-scope fixtures, and picked the in-place checkout on this machine. The Codex roots were not exercised, and no z-agent was launched without a path.
• In a clean worktree of this commit: 52 skills and 0 problems, 15/15 Node tests, and 120 Python tests passed.

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