[project-summary] Project Summary - 2026-07-29

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Project Summary

Period: 2026-07-28 to 2026-07-29

🎯 Easy Pickings

• Issue #1701 was opened by v1v to add an approval list for files when creating PRs; this is fresh, concrete scope and likely a fast win if maintainers align quickly on the allowed-files policy.
• PR #1702 is already linked to that ask and active, but remains draft; a focused maintainer review pass can quickly decide whether to iterate or move it to ready.

🔄 Stale Items

• Issue #799 (updated 2026-03-25) has been idle for 4+ months and still describes validation/reasoning gaps in Mention-on-Issue PR creation.
• Issue #811 (updated 2026-03-26) remains open on duplicate work triggered by both CodeRabbit and GitHub Actions for /ai commands.
• Issue #815 (updated 2026-03-26) is still open on automation running against closed PRs.
• Issue #816 (updated 2026-03-26) tracks a Kibana flaky-test triage workflow request that has seen no follow-up.

✅ Recent Progress

• Human-authored activity in this window was light: one new non-bot issue (#1701), with no non-bot commits or merged PRs after the last summary timestamp.

💡 Chronicle Next Steps

• Triage the March stale cluster (PRs created by Mention on Issue workflow lack thorough validation and clear reasoning #799, CodeRabbit and GitHub actions both react to /ai command, causing duplicate work #811, Automation runs on closed PRs #815, [kibana-flaky-test-triage] On-demand workflow to triage failed-test issues by team #816) in one maintainer sweep: close items that are no longer relevant and assign owners with concrete milestones for items that remain strategic.
• For Add approval list of files when creating a PR #1701/Add create-pr-allowed-files input to workflows using create-pull-request safe output #1702, capture the allowed-files policy explicitly in the workflow contract and finish one end-to-end validation path so this thread doesn’t join the stale queue.
• Keep bot-generated updates out of backlog health signals unless they represent substantive product change, so human-priority work remains visible.

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