Continuous Integration

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tags: [ci, tooling]

This page provides a quick overview of the GitHub Actions workflows used in the Calcite monorepo, grouped by purpose with short descriptions of what each one does.

Workflows by Purpose

Release & Publishing

• Deploy Latest
  Runs release-please for release branches, publishes latest packages to npm, uploads release assets, and opens a PR to sync release changes back to dev.

• Deploy Prerelease
  Publishes prerelease builds (such as next/rc flows), deploys prerelease Storybook artifacts, and sends Teams deployment notifications.

• clean-changelog
  Cleans prerelease changelog entries on release-please branches and pushes the cleanup commit.

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Pull Request Validation & Automation

• PR Bot
  Automatically assigns PR authors and applies commit type labels.

• Semantic PR
  Enforces semantic PR title conventions (Conventional Commit style types plus custom types).

• PR title is not truncated (...)
  Validates that PR titles are not truncated.

• E2E
  Runs build + CI tests for testable PR changes; if changes are not testable (for example docs-only), it adds skip visual snapshots.

• Icon Team Diff Check
  Detects whether a PR contains icon changes and applies icon team review logic when appropriate.

• PR T9n
  Auto-assigns reviewers for PRs targeting the translations-dev branch.

• PR Merged
  Runs after merged PRs to update milestone state and create Monday.com refactor tasks for PRs labeled refactor.

• Remove PR from changelog
  Omits a pull request from the changelog when it has been marked with the appropriate indicator to be excluded from changelog entries.

• Chromatic
  Builds Storybook and runs/publishes visual snapshot checks in Chromatic (or marks checks as skipped when skip visual snapshots is present).

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Issue Management & Project Operations

• Update Issue Metadata
  Automatically applies issue metadata labels (product, package, priority, regression, component) and adds issues to backlog tracking.

• Issue Notifications
  Sends targeted team notifications when specific issue labels are applied (installed, spike complete, ready for dev, new component, icon request).

• Monday.com Issue Sync
  Syncs issue changes between GitHub and Monday.com.

• Add Unblocked Comment to Issue
  Adds an “unblocked” follow-up comment when all blocking issues are closed.

• Close Need More Info Issues
  Runs on a schedule/manual trigger to close issues that has not received more clarifying information from original poster.

• Track Milestone Estimates
  Generates and uploads milestone estimate data artifacts when issues/milestones close (or on manual run).

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Security & Quality Signals

• CodeQL
  Performs GitHub CodeQL security and code scanning on target branches and on schedule.

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Scheduled Maintenance & Repository Upkeep

• Schedule Updates
  On schedule/manual run, opens automated PRs for Browserslist DB updates and third-party notices updates.

• Close stale PRs
  Marks inactive pull requests as stale after the configured inactivity period.

• Update Contributors
  Updates the contributor list in README.md and opens an automated PR.

• Update Issue Template Components
  Refreshes component lists used by issue templates and opens an automated PR.