ci: auto-merge non-draft PRs into develop when CI is green

[tomymaritano]

Summary

Non-draft PRs into develop now get gh pr merge --auto --squash. --auto waits for required status checks, so red CI does not merge. Drafts stay out. PRs targeting a feature branch stay out (no stacked-PR instant merge). Dependabot uses the same rule. No automerge label.

Type of Change

• Documentation update
• CI / repo rule (not a product feature)

What changed

• .github/workflows/automerge.yml — one rule for every non-draft PR into develop; disable auto-merge if the PR is drafted or retargeted off develop.
• docs/ci.md + docs/adr/006-ci-green-automerge.md — CI green on develop = squash auto-merge.
• docs/RELEASE.md — one-line pointer to that rule.

Repo settings

• allow_auto_merge is on.
• Develop ruleset already requires lint, test, typecheck, security, commitlint. Auto-merge cannot fire without those green.
• --auto is enabled on this PR and on 561, 560, 554, 553 (Dependabot PRs already had it). They still only merge when required checks are green.

This token cannot PATCH rulesets (403). CodeRabbit is still a required check, and e2e is not yet required. Drop CodeRabbit, add e2e, and turn off review-thread resolution (no reviews / no CodeRabbit gate) on ruleset 13807741:

gh api --method PUT repos/dripnex/app/rulesets/13807741 --input - <<'EOF'
{
  "name": "develop",
  "target": "branch",
  "enforcement": "active",
  "conditions": { "ref_name": { "exclude": [], "include": ["refs/heads/develop"] } },
  "rules": [
    { "type": "deletion" },
    { "type": "non_fast_forward" },
    {
      "type": "pull_request",
      "parameters": {
        "required_approving_review_count": 0,
        "dismiss_stale_reviews_on_push": true,
        "require_code_owner_review": false,
        "require_last_push_approval": false,
        "required_review_thread_resolution": false,
        "require_extra_approval_for_unattributed_changes": false,
        "allowed_merge_methods": ["squash", "merge", "rebase"]
      }
    },
    {
      "type": "required_status_checks",
      "parameters": {
        "strict_required_status_checks_policy": false,
        "do_not_enforce_on_create": false,
        "required_status_checks": [
          { "context": "lint" },
          { "context": "test" },
          { "context": "typecheck" },
          { "context": "e2e" },
          { "context": "security" },
          { "context": "commitlint" }
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
EOF

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Related Issues

Tomás: auto-merge Dripnex PRs automatically ONLY if CI passes. No review required. No automerge label.

Checklist

• PR targets develop branch (not main)
• No marketplace/product changes

  

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Automation

  • Non-draft pull requests targeting develop are now automatically squash-merged after required CI checks pass.
  • Draft pull requests and pull requests retargeted away from develop are excluded from auto-merge.

• Documentation

  • Updated release and CI documentation to clarify the auto-merge policy, required checks, and exclusions.
  • Added an architectural decision record documenting the policy.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The pull request workflow now applies squash auto-merge to non-draft pull requests targeting develop, cancels queued auto-merges when eligibility ends, and documents the required checks and exclusions.

Changes

Auto-merge policy

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Workflow eligibility and cancellation .github/workflows/automerge.yml	The workflow handles edits and draft-status transitions. It enables squash auto-merge for eligible pull requests and cancels queued auto-merges for drafts or non-develop targets.
Policy documentation docs/RELEASE.md, docs/adr/006-ci-green-automerge.md, docs/ci.md	The documentation defines the CI-gated merge policy, required checks, exclusions, and workflow behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 56249

This change automatically squash-merges non-draft pull requests into develop after required checks pass. As written, eligibility changes can race with an older workflow run, cancellation failures can be hidden, and the workflow grants broader write access than necessary; these could enable unintended merges or increase security impact, so the PR is not merge-ready until those safeguards are fixed. The repository’s live merge requirements also need to match the documented policy.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant GitHubPR as GitHub PR event
  participant AutomergeJob as automerge job
  participant GitHubAPI as GitHub GraphQL API
  GitHubPR->>AutomergeJob: Trigger on PR edit or draft-status transition
  AutomergeJob->>GitHubAPI: Enable squash auto-merge for eligible PRs
  GitHubPR->>AutomergeJob: Detect draft or non-develop target
  AutomergeJob->>GitHubAPI: Cancel queued auto-merge

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✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: auto-merging non-draft pull requests into develop after CI passes.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0 files. (4 skipped: 4 unsupported.)
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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• Commit unit tests in branch cursor/ci-green-automerge-00cf

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Inline comments:
In @.github/workflows/automerge.yml:
- Around line 41-48: The auto-merge cancellation step in the workflow must not
suppress all failures with “|| true”. Handle the expected already-disabled
condition explicitly, but fail or alert for permission, API, network, and query
errors; when the develop branch uses a merge queue, also invoke
dequeuePullRequest so queued requests are removed.
- Around line 8-10: Set workflow-level permissions to empty, then scope
permissions per job: grant the automerge job contents: write and pull-requests:
write, while granting disable-automerge only pull-requests: write.
- Around line 19-27: The auto-merge workflow must revalidate the pull request
immediately before enabling auto-merge: query the current isDraft and
baseRefName values and proceed only when it remains a non-draft targeting
develop. Add pull-request-number-based concurrency to serialize overlapping
runs, and update the enable job’s mutation step accordingly.

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[tomymaritano]

Atendí los dos hallazgos Major de CodeRabbit en ee4343e.

Least privilege (línea 10). permissions a nivel workflow pasa a {}. automerge conserva contents: write + pull-requests: write; disable-automerge queda solo con pull-requests: write, que es todo lo que necesita la mutación. Esto cierra los dos errores de zizmor (excessive-permissions) y el warning de undocumented-permissions — cada scope va con su comentario.

Race (línea 27). Real y con consecuencia concreta: los if: leen el payload del evento, que es un snapshot de cuando se encoló la corrida, así que una corrida vieja podía volver a prender el auto-merge después de que una nueva lo apagó — justo el caso de mergear sobre una base no protegida que el workflow quiere evitar. Dos cambios:

1. concurrency: automerge-${{ github.event.pull_request.number }} para serializar por PR. Con cancel-in-progress: false a propósito: cancelar podría matar el job disable-automerge y dejar el auto-merge prendido, que es peor que la carrera original.
2. El step de enable re-lee isDraft/baseRefName en vivo justo antes de gh pr merge --auto y sale sin hacer nada si el PR ya no califica.

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[tomymaritano]

Tercer hallazgo atendido en b83f673: no suprimir fallos de cancelación.

Tenías razón en que || true es peligroso acá y no meramente descuidado: se tragaba fallos de permisos, API y red junto con el único error esperado. Si el disable falla, el auto-merge queda prendido en un PR que ya es draft o que ya no apunta a develop — literalmente el resultado que ese job existe para impedir. Ahora solo se tolera el caso not enabled; cualquier otro error escribe a stderr y sale 1.

Sobre la merge queue: verifiqué el ruleset de develop (gh api repos/dripnex/app/rules/branches/develop) y solo tiene deletion, non_fast_forward, pull_request y required_status_checks — no hay regla merge_queue, así que dequeuePullRequest no aplica hoy. Si más adelante se activa una queue, hay que sumarlo.

El SC2016 de actionlint queda como está a propósito: el query va en comillas simples porque $id es una variable de GraphQL y no debe expandirla el shell. Lo dejé documentado en un comentario sobre el step.

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