* ci: skip the AI reviews and the Discord notice on Dependabot PRs
They already do not review them, they just fail while doing so. The Claude
action rejects a bot actor outright ("Workflow initiated by non-human actor"),
and the Codex and Pi jobs find no API key because GitHub gives Dependabot-
triggered runs a separate secret scope from Actions. Verified on #11302: zero
reviews posted, the only comment is a Cloudflare deployment notice, while
codex-review and pi-review both reported success.
So every Dependabot PR carried two permanently red checks that meant nothing,
which is the worst kind of signal — it buries a Dependabot PR that genuinely is
broken, and a green tick that means "skipped" reads exactly like one that means
"looked and approved".
Skipping states it honestly. The workflow_call branch is untouched, so a review
can still be requested on a specific bot PR when the diff deserves one, which is
worth doing for a grouped security update that swaps a cipher or drops a parser
rather than just moving a version.
The Discord notice is excluded for the same reason plus its own: nobody wants a
forum thread per lockfile bump.
Not fixed here, deliberately: making these actually review bot PRs would need
the org's review credentials copied into the Dependabot secret scope, which is a
wider grant than this is worth given the PRs in question are lockfile diffs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* ci: gate the close-time Discord job too, and trim the comments
Both reviewers caught the same gap: merge_success_emoji runs on every `closed`
event with no exclusion, and the reusable workflow it calls exits 1 when it
cannot find a thread. Since open_thread no longer creates one for Dependabot,
the failure would have moved from open-time to merge-time rather than going
away. Gated to match.
The comments are cut from eight lines to two per file. AGENTS.md:205 asks for
constraints in <=4 lines, stated once, describing the code as it is — mine
narrated the drafting history and argued the change to a reviewer, both of which
belong in the PR description. Also drops "bot-authored", which overstated a
condition that only covers dependabot[bot].
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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