[Paveltarno]

Problem

base44 deploy -y removed every connector missing from base44/connectors/, Stripe included (sandbox, keys, claim link), and printed nothing. It hit an agent-built app whose Stripe came from the API; the template has no connectors folder.

Explicit-delete vs mirrored

This PR names a split that already existed implicitly, and documents it in docs/resources.md:

• Mirrored (entities, agents, agent skills): the remote is made to match the folder, so deleting a local file deletes it remotely.
• Explicit-delete (functions, actors, and now connectors): deploy only adds and updates; removal takes an explicit step (--force, actors delete).

A resource belongs in explicit-delete when its remote copy holds something the folder can't restore (credentials, a Stripe sandbox, durable storage) or can be created outside the folder. Connectors fit both.

Change

	Before	After (same as functions)
deploy	removes connectors missing locally	adds and updates only
connectors push	removes connectors missing locally	removes only with --force (warning + --yes)
Empty folder	removes all	removes nothing, even with --force
Connector fails during deploy	ignored, exit 0	fails the deploy (after the site ships)

Breaking: scripts relying on connectors push to prune need --force.

Tests

New deploy / connectors push cases for each row above. Full suite, typecheck and lint pass locally.

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