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Add stale-pr-cleanup workflow to triage 30+ day PR backlog#30317

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Copilot AI commented May 5, 2026

94% of open PRs (48/51) have been open 30+ days, most being superseded Copilot/Dependabot PRs or stalled drafts. Adds a weekly agentic workflow to systematically close them.

New workflow: stale-pr-cleanup.md

Classifies stale PRs (30+ days, no exemption label) into four ordered categories:

Category Criteria Action
A — Superseded File overlap with a merged PR, or title/description references a closed issue/PR Close
B — Inactive Draft isDraft=true, updatedAt > 30 days Close
C — Dependabot Conflict Author is dependabot[bot], mergeable=CONFLICTING or newer bump for same dependency exists Close
D — Long-running open Non-draft, human-authored, no activity 30+ days Warn only

Dependabot duplicate detection parses titles via Bump <dep> from X to Y / Update <dep> requirement from X to Y and matches on extracted dependency name.

Safety guardrails

  • Exemption labels: keep-open, blocked, awaiting-review, do-not-close, hold — skips entirely
  • Category D never closes — stalled human-authored ready-for-review PRs get a warning comment only; closure requires human oversight
  • No duplicate warnings — PRs already carrying stale/stale-draft/stale-dependabot are skipped on the warning pass
  • Safe-output limits: 20 closures, 30 comments per run; oldest PRs processed first when limits are hit

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Closes #<issue_number> by introducing a new agentic workflow that:
- Closes superseded PRs (Category A)
- Closes inactive draft PRs 30+ days old (Category B)
- Closes Dependabot PRs with merge conflicts (Category C)
- Warns on stalled human-authored ready-for-review PRs (Category D)"

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Copilot AI changed the title [WIP] Triage and close 48 stale PRs open for 30+ days Add stale-pr-cleanup workflow to triage 30+ day PR backlog May 5, 2026
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Hey @copilot-swe-agent 👋 — great start on the stale PR cleanup workflow! Creating an automated triage system to handle the 48 long-running PRs is exactly the kind of agentic workflow tooling this project is built around. The checklist in the body is clear and the two-file structure (.md source + compiled .lock.yml) follows the expected pattern.

One thing to address before this is ready for review:

  • No test files changed — the diff adds 1,638 lines of new workflow logic but includes no test coverage. Even though make agent-report-progress passed (good!), the project's contributing guidelines call out make test-unit and make test as the validation gates. If there are existing test fixtures or test helpers for workflow files, this PR should include tests for the new stale-pr-cleanup logic (e.g., category classification, permission checks, date thresholds).

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Add unit tests for the new stale-pr-cleanup workflow defined in .github/workflows/stale-pr-cleanup.md.
Cover the following scenarios:
1. A draft PR with no activity in 30+ days (Category B) — should be closed.
2. A Dependabot PR with merge conflicts (Category C) — should be closed.
3. A PR superseded by merged work (Category A) — should be closed.
4. A long-running non-draft human PR (Category D) — should receive a warning comment only, not be closed.
5. Verify the `issues: read` permission is present in the compiled lock file.
Run `make test-unit` to confirm all tests pass before committing.

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Pull request overview

Adds an agentic workflow to periodically triage the repository’s 30+ day PR backlog, focusing on safely closing clearly stale/superseded items while only warning on long-running human PRs.

Changes:

  • Introduces a new weekly “Stale PR Cleanup” agent workflow definition with classification rules (superseded, inactive drafts, Dependabot conflicts, long-running open).
  • Adds the compiled lock workflow (*.lock.yml) to execute the agent with Safe Outputs guardrails and pinned actions/containers.
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.github/workflows/stale-pr-cleanup.md Defines the cleanup agent’s policy, classification logic, and Safe Outputs limits/messages.
.github/workflows/stale-pr-cleanup.lock.yml Compiled/pinned workflow that runs the agent on schedule/dispatch with Safe Outputs enforcement.

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.github/workflows/stale-pr-cleanup.md:94

  • Category A treats a prior stale label as evidence of being superseded. This conflicts with Category D’s guarantee to only warn (and the PR description’s “Category D never closes”), because a human-authored PR warned with stale would be closed on the next run. Consider removing stale from the superseded criteria and only treating an explicit superseded (or equivalent) label as grounds for closure.
A PR is superseded if one or more of the following is true:
- Another PR that modifies **at least one of the same files** has been merged into the base branch after this PR was created
- The PR description or title contains phrases like "replaced by", "superseded by", "closed in favour of", or a reference like "closes #N" where issue #N is already closed
- The head branch name matches a common stale pattern (e.g., `copilot/fix-…`, `dependabot/…`) and a PR with a title sharing **at least 70% of the same words** was merged later
- The PR has been marked `stale` or `superseded` by a prior triage pass

**Action**: Close with a superseded closure comment and apply the `superseded` label.

.github/workflows/stale-pr-cleanup.md:109

  • Category C’s author check (ends with [bot]) is broader than Dependabot and could incorrectly close other bot-authored PRs (e.g., github-actions[bot]) when they conflict. If the intent is Dependabot-only triage, restrict this condition to dependabot[bot] (or Dependabot app identifiers) rather than all bots.
A PR is a stale Dependabot conflict PR if:
- Author login is `dependabot[bot]` or ends with `[bot]`
- `mergeable` is `CONFLICTING` **or** a newer Dependabot PR for the same dependency is open or has already merged

.github/workflows/stale-pr-cleanup.md:251

  • The “Safe Execution” guideline says “Never close PRs from maintainers/admins without superseded evidence”, but Categories B (inactive draft) and C (Dependabot conflict) always close when matched. This is internally inconsistent and could lead to ambiguous behavior. Clarify whether the maintainer/admin exception applies only to Category A (superseded) or add an explicit exemption/branch for maintainer/admin-authored PRs in Categories B/C.

- Check exemption labels before any action
- Never close PRs from maintainers/admins without superseded evidence
- Process Categories A, B, C first (closures); then D (warnings) with remaining safe-output quota
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  • Comments generated: 1

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