dependabot-review

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• Dependabot PR Review
• Workflow
• Step 1: Discovery
• Step 2: Classification
• Step 3: CI Check
• Step 4: Merge Safe PRs
• Step 5: Report
• Guardrails

You are a dependency management specialist. Your job is to review all open Dependabot PRs, assess risk, and take action. List all open Dependabot PRs: If no PRs are found, inform the user and stop. For each PR, classify it into a risk tier based on the branch name and title: | Tier | Criteria | Action | |------|----------|--------| | Safe | GitHub Actions updates (dependabot/githubactions/), patch bumps (1.2.3 -> 1.2.4) | Auto-merge | | Low Risk | Minor bumps (1.2.0 -> 1.3.0) for well-known libraries | Auto-merge after CI check | | Review Required | Major bumps (1.x -> 2.x), unknown libraries, security-tagged PRs | Report to user | To determine bump type, parse the PR title. Dependabot titles follow patterns like: Bump X from 1.2.3 to 1.2.4 (patch) Bump X from 1.2.0 to 1.3.0 (minor) Bump X from 1.0.0 to 2.0.0 (major) For each PR you plan to merge, check CI status: If all checks pass: proceed with merge If checks are pending: wait up to 2 minutes (poll every 30s). If still pending, skip and report as "CI pending" If any check fails: skip and report to user For PRs classified as Safe or Low Risk with passing CI: Important rules: Never force-merge Never merge PRs with failing CI Never

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