ci(frontend): fast-fail build sentinel on push to protected branches (closes #177)

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Summary

Closes #177 (P1, urgency:now, effort:xs).

Pre-commit's Build frontend hook catches local edits that break the build, but it does NOT run for rebases, merge commits authored via the GitHub UI, or push races. PR #160 → #172 was the motivating incident: a rebase silently orphaned the formatRelativeTime import, pre-commit didn't re-run, the merge landed, and per-cloud deploys all failed ~30 minutes later in their Docker frontend-builder stage.

What's added

.github/workflows/frontend-build-sentinel.yml:

• Triggers on push to main and feat/** branches.
• Runs npm ci, npx tsc --noEmit, npm run build, and npx jest --no-coverage --silent inside frontend/.
• Uses actions/setup-node@v6 with cache: 'npm' keyed on frontend/package-lock.json so the warm path is sub-30s.
• concurrency: { group: 'frontend-build-${{ github.ref }}', cancel-in-progress: true } so successive pushes only build the latest tip.
• 5-minute timeout cap.

Effect

A broken frontend build now fires within ~1 minute of landing on the protected branch, well before the per-cloud deploys hit the same failure 30+ minutes later. Run cost is negligible (~30s warm, ~45s cold, single ubuntu-latest runner).

Verification

• Workflow file is YAML-valid.
• Will get its first real test on this PR's merge — if anything in this branch's tip happens to break the frontend build, the new sentinel will catch it on the very push that lands it.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Chores
  • Introduced automated build and test workflow that executes on every push to main and feature branches, performing TypeScript type verification, frontend application build, and test suite execution.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

A new GitHub Actions workflow is introduced that triggers on pushes to main and feat/\* branches. It performs frontend build validation by installing dependencies, running TypeScript typecheck, building the frontend, and executing Jest tests, with per-ref concurrency management and npm caching.

Changes

Cohort / File(s)	Summary
Frontend Build Sentinel Workflow .github/workflows/frontend-build-sentinel.yml	New workflow that runs on push to main and feat/** branches. Executes npm ci, npx tsc --noEmit, npm run build, and Jest tests in a single job with 5-minute timeout, per-ref concurrency, and npm cache keying on frontend/package-lock.json.

Estimated code review effort

🎯 2 (Simple) | ⏱️ ~10 minutes

Poem

🐰 A sentinel hops into place,
Catching builds that lose the race,
No more waits for distant shores—
Thirty seconds, gates open doors,
Fast feedback, errors caught in grace!

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title accurately describes the primary change: adding a fast-fail CI sentinel for frontend builds on protected branches, and references the linked issue #177.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The PR implementation fully satisfies all coding requirements from issue #177: workflow triggers on push to main and feat/*, runs npm ci and npm run build in frontend/, includes tsc typecheck and jest tests for parity, uses npm caching via actions/setup-node, and implements concurrency with cancel-in-progress.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	All changes are directly scoped to the stated objective: the single new workflow file (.github/workflows/frontend-build-sentinel.yml) implements exactly what issue #177 specifies with no extraneous modifications.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.

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• Create PR with unit tests
• Commit unit tests in branch ci/issue-177-frontend-sentinel

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🧹 Nitpick comments (1)

.github/workflows/frontend-build-sentinel.yml (1)

42-46: Pin GitHub Actions to immutable commit SHAs for supply-chain security.

Lines 42 and 45 use mutable version refs (@v5, @v6). Pinning to commit SHAs prevents silent behavior drift when maintainers update version tags and reduces supply-chain risk.

Update:

• Line 42: actions/checkout@v5 → pin to full SHA of v6
• Line 45: actions/setup-node@v6 → pin to full SHA of current v6.x release

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents

Verify each finding against the current code and only fix it if needed.

In @.github/workflows/frontend-build-sentinel.yml around lines 42 - 46, Replace
the mutable action refs with immutable commit SHAs: update the uses value for
actions/checkout (currently "actions/checkout@v5") to the full commit SHA
corresponding to the v6 tag, and update the uses value for actions/setup-node
(currently "actions/setup-node@v6") to the full commit SHA for the current v6.x
release; locate these entries by searching for the strings "actions/checkout"
and "actions/setup-node" in the workflow and substitute the tag refs with their
respective full commit SHAs to pin the actions.

🤖 Prompt for all review comments with AI agents

Verify each finding against the current code and only fix it if needed.

Nitpick comments:
In @.github/workflows/frontend-build-sentinel.yml:
- Around line 42-46: Replace the mutable action refs with immutable commit SHAs:
update the uses value for actions/checkout (currently "actions/checkout@v5") to
the full commit SHA corresponding to the v6 tag, and update the uses value for
actions/setup-node (currently "actions/setup-node@v6") to the full commit SHA
for the current v6.x release; locate these entries by searching for the strings
"actions/checkout" and "actions/setup-node" in the workflow and substitute the
tag refs with their respective full commit SHAs to pin the actions.

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