Pin Registry Broker at top of Development & Workflow section

Update linter to support <!-- pinned --> comment for entries that
should always appear first, excluded from alphabetical checking.

Author: github-actions[bot]

README.md

@@ -55,13 +55,14 @@ Third-party plugins built by the community. [PRs welcome](#contributing)!
 
 ### Development & Workflow
 
+<!-- pinned -->
+- [Registry Broker](https://github.com/hashgraph-online/registry-broker-codex-plugin) - Delegate tasks to specialist AI agents via the HOL Registry, plan, find, summon, and recover sessions.
 - [AgentOps](https://github.com/boshu2/agentops) - DevOps layer for coding agents with flow, feedback, and memory that compounds between sessions.
 - [Claude Octopus](https://github.com/nyldn/claude-octopus) - Multi-LLM orchestration dispatching to 8 providers (Codex, Gemini, Copilot, Qwen, Perplexity, OpenRouter, Ollama, OpenCode) with Double Diamond workflows, adversarial review, and safety gates.
 - [Codex Multi Auth](https://github.com/ndycode/codex-multi-auth) - Multi-account OAuth manager for the official Codex CLI with switching, health checks, and recovery tools.
 - [Codex Reviewer](https://github.com/schuettc/codex-reviewer) - Second-pass review of Claude-driven plans and implementations.
 - [HOTL Plugin](https://github.com/yimwoo/hotl-plugin) - Human-on-the-Loop AI coding workflow plugin for Codex, Claude Code, and Cline with structured planning, review, and verification guardrails.
 - [Project Autopilot](https://github.com/AlexMi64/codex-project-autopilot) - Turn an idea into a structured project workflow with planning, execution, verification, and handoff.
-- [Registry Broker](https://github.com/hashgraph-online/registry-broker-codex-plugin) - Delegate tasks to specialist AI agents via the HOL Registry, plan, find, summon, and recover sessions.
 
 ### Tools & Integrations
 

scripts/check-alphabetical.py

@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
-"""Linter: verify that list entries within each section of README.md are alphabetically sorted."""
+"""Linter: verify that list entries within each section of README.md are alphabetically sorted.
+
+Supports pinned entries: any list item preceded by `<!-- pinned -->` is treated as
+always-first and excluded from alphabetical checking. The remaining items must be sorted.
+"""
 
 import re
 import sys
@@ -41,6 +45,9 @@ def extract_sections(filepath: str) -> list[tuple[str, str, list[str]]]:
             current_items = []
         elif item_re.match(line):
             display_text = item_re.match(line).group(1)
+            # Skip pinned entries
+            if i > 1 and re.search(r"<!--\s*pinned\s*-->", lines[i - 2]):
+                continue
             current_items.append((display_text.lower(), i))
 
     # Don't forget the last section