Creating the staged symlink usually succeeds, so the link strategy really
fails at publish time: renameSkillPathNoReplace has no atomic no-clobber
primitive for a symlink source and refuses it whenever the kernel flag is
unavailable (NFS, FUSE, overlayfs). Gating the copy fallback on staging
alone therefore left every non-universal Agent unconfigured on exactly the
filesystems the fallback exists to support.
Retry the whole target transaction as a direct copy after a failure in any
phase, but only when the failed attempt fully restored the originals. The
converter also re-adds the replacement backups the link plan deliberately
skips for destinations already pointing at canonical, which a copy must
replace and no-replace publication would otherwise reject with EEXIST.