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feat(ci): add bounded retries for approved pull requests - #340
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LGTM - Retrying approved PRs until they pass might hide flaky tests, we need to keep an eye on this.
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Approved pull requests can leave authors repeating failed CI by hand. Existing approval automation waits for green checks but cannot request a rerun. Add a disabled, dry-run-first retry action with an explicit workflow allowlist, current-head human approval, freshness checks and a three-rerun budget that includes manual attempts. Leave an immutable diagnosis handoff when the budget is exhausted. Keep merges and AI dispatch outside this pilot until their policies and input contract are verified.
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Summary
Add an opt-in action to retry failed CI on approved pull requests. It defaults to disabled and dry-run mode. Callers must allowlist workflow IDs.
The action requires a current-head approval from a human with write access and skips drafts, forks, stale heads, and unknown API state. It rechecks eligibility before requesting one failed-jobs rerun. The limit is three reruns, including manual attempts.
When the limit is exhausted, it emits a JSON handoff with immutable run details. It does not approve or merge pull requests or invoke the QA bot. No caller is activated, and the action is not released yet.
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54 tests passed. All six GitHub checks passed on
20f704f, including actionlint, zizmor and generated docs. Targeted local zizmor found no issues.Full
make lintreports an existing dangerous-triggers finding in.github/workflows/claude.ymlwith local zizmor 1.31.1. The live event chain has not been verified.Closes DEVOPS-1758