Kickoff Patch — Bring a Kickoff-based project up to the latest baseline

/kickoff patch upgrades a Laravel project that was scaffolded from CleaniqueCoders Kickoff to the current Kickoff baseline — pulling in new packages, menu items, settings, UI fixes, components, config, and CI changes — without clobbering the developer's own work. It is a preview-first, approve-per-category merge — 3-way when the original version is available, 2-way otherwise — not a file copy.

Mental model (read this first — it determines everything)

Kickoff is not a Laravel skeleton you fork or a dependency you track. It is a one-shot Symfony Console scaffolder: kickoff start <owner> <name> runs laravel new, copies stubs/ over the fresh app, and composer requires a hardcoded package set — then walks away. After scaffolding there is no link back: cleaniquecoders/kickoff never appears in composer.lock, and there is no version marker. Consequences: