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Syncs the following org-standard workflow stub(s) from petry-projects/.github (standards/workflows/), deployed verbatim:

  • dev-lead.yml
  • agent-shield.yml
  • add-to-project.yml
  • pr-auto-review.yml

Opened by scripts/deploy-standard-workflows.sh. Stubs are thin callers; all behaviour lives in the reusables. See standards/ci-standards.md. Labeled standards-sync and left for the normal review/auto-merge pipeline — the deploy script never merges directly.

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  • Automation
    • Updated several repository automation workflows to use newer workflow channels.
    • Automated pull request reviews now also run for Dependabot-triggered or Dependabot-authored pull requests.
    • Existing permissions, secrets handling, and other workflow settings remain unchanged.

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Route repository automation through next-channel workflows and review Dependabot pull requests

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  • Developer-lead, agent-shield, and project-assignment automation now uses the organization’s next-channel workflow versions
  • Project assignment passes the same next-channel version to its supporting automation
  • Pull request auto-review no longer skips Dependabot-authored or Dependabot-triggered pull requests

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✅ Project assignments use next-channel behavior

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The workflows now use updated reusable workflow channel references. The pull request review job now runs without the previous Dependabot exclusion condition.

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Reusable workflow channel references
.github/workflows/add-to-project.yml, .github/workflows/agent-shield.yml, .github/workflows/dev-lead.yml
The workflows now reference the specified next channels. The dev-lead workflow updates both its reusable workflow reference and agent_ref.
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.github/workflows/pr-auto-review.yml
The header comment now preserves the pr-auto-review/v1-stable channel. The job-level Dependabot exclusion condition and its comment were removed, so the job runs unconditionally.

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As written, this can break standard workflow validation, make recovery from dev-lead failures harder, and cause Dependabot review jobs to fail at startup. These issues should be fixed before merge.

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Description check ⚠️ Warning The description provides a useful summary, but it omits the required Problem, Risk, Test plan, Rollback, Monitoring, Interaction contract, and Checklist sections. Add all required template sections. State the problem and issue link, risk category and rationale, tests and commands actually run, rollback steps and side effects, monitoring signals, the Interaction contract status or required agentic-rol…
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the synchronization of four organization-standard workflow stubs from petry-projects/.github.
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Add all required template sections. State the problem and issue link, risk category and rationale, tests and commands actually run, rollback steps and side effects, monitoring signals, the Interaction contract status or required agentic-role details, and the checklist results.

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uses: petry-projects/.github/.github/workflows/add-to-project-reusable.yml@add-to-project/v1-stable # NOSONAR(githubactions:S7637) first-party channel ref
uses: petry-projects/.github/.github/workflows/add-to-project-reusable.yml@add-to-project/v1-next # NOSONAR(githubactions:S7637) first-party channel ref

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Skipping the SHA-pin request: this uses: reference targets one of the org's own reusable workflows on a moving release-channel tag (@<agent>/v<MAJOR>-<tier>), which is the sanctioned first-party mutable-ref exception per AGENTS.md ("Release channel tags & the mutable-ref exception"). Pinning it to a commit SHA would freeze it off the central rollout/rollback mechanism and is rejected by the reusable-pin compliance audit, so the ref is intentionally left on its channel tag. Note: the flagged -next refs have separately been reverted to their canonical -stable channel in this pass.

jobs:
agent-shield:
uses: petry-projects/.github/.github/workflows/agent-shield-reusable.yml@agent-shield/v2-stable # NOSONAR(githubactions:S7637) first-party channel ref
uses: petry-projects/.github/.github/workflows/agent-shield-reusable.yml@agent-shield/v2-next # NOSONAR(githubactions:S7637) first-party channel ref

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Skipping the SHA-pin request: this uses: reference targets one of the org's own reusable workflows on a moving release-channel tag (@<agent>/v<MAJOR>-<tier>), which is the sanctioned first-party mutable-ref exception per AGENTS.md ("Release channel tags & the mutable-ref exception"). Pinning it to a commit SHA would freeze it off the central rollout/rollback mechanism and is rejected by the reusable-pin compliance audit, so the ref is intentionally left on its channel tag. Note: the flagged -next refs have separately been reverted to their canonical -stable channel in this pass.

# caller is never edited on release. agent_ref threads the same channel into
# dev-lead's own scripts/prompts checkout. See https://github.com/petry-projects/.github/blob/main/standards/ci-standards.md#dev-lead-agent.
uses: petry-projects/.github-private/.github/workflows/dev-lead-reusable.yml@dev-lead/v139-stable # NOSONAR(githubactions:S7637) first-party channel ref
uses: petry-projects/.github-private/.github/workflows/dev-lead-reusable.yml@dev-lead/v139-next # NOSONAR(githubactions:S7637) first-party channel ref

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Skipping the SHA-pin request: this uses: reference targets one of the org's own reusable workflows on a moving release-channel tag (@<agent>/v<MAJOR>-<tier>), which is the sanctioned first-party mutable-ref exception per AGENTS.md ("Release channel tags & the mutable-ref exception"). Pinning it to a commit SHA would freeze it off the central rollout/rollback mechanism and is rejected by the reusable-pin compliance audit, so the ref is intentionally left on its channel tag. Note: the flagged -next refs have separately been reverted to their canonical -stable channel in this pass.

Comment on lines +50 to +54
uses: petry-projects/.github/.github/workflows/add-to-project-reusable.yml@add-to-project/v1-next # NOSONAR(githubactions:S7637) first-party channel ref
with:
project_id: PVT_kwDOD2inqs4BZq3-
project_url: https://github.com/orgs/petry-projects/projects/1
agent_ref: add-to-project/v1-stable
agent_ref: add-to-project/v1-next

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Suggestion: This moves the caller and forwarded agent_ref from the required stable channel to next, so stable-channel promotions and rollbacks no longer control this workflow. [api mismatch]

Assessment: 🟠 Major · 🔁 Occurrence: Often

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**Path:** .github/workflows/add-to-project.yml
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	*Api Mismatch: This moves the caller and forwarded `agent_ref` from the required stable channel to `next`, so stable-channel promotions and rollbacks no longer control this workflow.

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Fixed in .github/workflows/add-to-project.yml: reverted both the uses: pin and the forwarded agent_ref from add-to-project/v1-next back to add-to-project/v1-stable, restoring the required stable channel so central promotions/rollbacks continue to control this caller. This matches the verbatim standards deployment (org stubs are shipped repinned to @<name>/v<MAJOR>-stable).

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agent-shield:
uses: petry-projects/.github/.github/workflows/agent-shield-reusable.yml@agent-shield/v2-stable # NOSONAR(githubactions:S7637) first-party channel ref
uses: petry-projects/.github/.github/workflows/agent-shield-reusable.yml@agent-shield/v2-next # NOSONAR(githubactions:S7637) first-party channel ref

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Suggestion: This changes the required AgentShield caller from the canonical stable channel to next, causing CI to use unreleased scan behavior and failing the repository's canonical stub validation. [api mismatch]

Assessment: 🟠 Major · 🔁 Occurrence: Often

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**Path:** .github/workflows/agent-shield.yml
**Line:** 33:33
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	*Api Mismatch: This changes the required AgentShield caller from the canonical stable channel to `next`, causing CI to use unreleased scan behavior and failing the repository's canonical stub validation.

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Fixed in .github/workflows/agent-shield.yml: reverted the AgentShield reusable uses: pin from agent-shield/v2-next back to the canonical agent-shield/v2-stable channel, so CI uses released scan behavior and the caller passes canonical stub validation again.

Comment on lines +70 to +72
uses: petry-projects/.github-private/.github/workflows/dev-lead-reusable.yml@dev-lead/v139-next # NOSONAR(githubactions:S7637) first-party channel ref
with:
agent_ref: dev-lead/v139-stable
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Suggestion: The dev-lead reusable and agent_ref now use next, rearming the self-hosting circular dependency that SC2 requires this workflow to avoid. [state/lifecycle]

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**Path:** .github/workflows/dev-lead.yml
**Line:** 70:72
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	*State Lifecycle: The dev-lead reusable and `agent_ref` now use `next`, rearming the self-hosting circular dependency that SC2 requires this workflow to avoid.

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Fixed in .github/workflows/dev-lead.yml: reverted both the uses: pin and the forwarded agent_ref from dev-lead/v139-next back to dev-lead/v139-stable. Per SC2 (tests/test_sc2_self_review_channel.bats and the stub's own inline comment), this self-host caller must stay on a stable tier so a broken next cannot gate its own fix; the revert de-arms the self-hosting circular dependency and restores caller-stub-freeze byte-identity (baseline now ALIGNED).

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49-49: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Restore the Dependabot job guard.

Dependabot-triggered runs do not receive GH_PAT_DON_PETRY or GH_PAT_WORKFLOWS. The expression on line 58 then resolves to an empty token, and the reusable workflow checkout fails at startup. The supplied integration validator requires both the actor and pull-request-author checks.

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In @.github/workflows/pr-auto-review.yml at line 49, Restore the Dependabot job
guard in the workflow permissions/configuration, requiring both the triggering
actor and pull-request author checks before invoking the reusable workflow so
Dependabot runs do not attempt checkout with missing tokens.
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In @.github/workflows/add-to-project.yml:
- Around line 50-54: In the add-to-project reusable workflow invocation, restore
both the uses reference and agent_ref from add-to-project/v1-next to
add-to-project/v1-stable, leaving the project configuration unchanged.

In @.github/workflows/agent-shield.yml:
- Line 33: Revert the change to the workflow reference in agent-shield.yml,
restoring its prior contents exactly; do not modify this file as part of the
template sync.

In @.github/workflows/dev-lead.yml:
- Around line 70-72: Update the dev-lead workflow caller to use the stable
channel by changing both the reusable workflow reference and the agent_ref value
to dev-lead/v139-stable.

In @.github/workflows/pr-auto-review.yml:
- Line 11: Update the channel instruction comment near the workflow’s uses
reference to require preserving `@pr-auto-review/v1-next`, matching the caller and
integration validator; do not mention or require the v1-stable channel.

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Outside diff comments:
In @.github/workflows/pr-auto-review.yml:
- Line 49: Restore the Dependabot job guard in the workflow
permissions/configuration, requiring both the triggering actor and pull-request
author checks before invoking the reusable workflow so Dependabot runs do not
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Superseded by automated re-review at 956afe27bfae831041515bea04ef50b3a41799d6 — click to expand prior review.

Review — fix requested (cycle 1/3)

The automated review identified the following issues. Please address each one:

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Cascade: triage → deep (triage: haiku 4.5 [sonnet 5] → deep: opus 4.8 [sonnet 5] + duck: o4-mini → audit: fable 5)

Summary

This is presented as a trusted verbatim standards-sync (SAFETY_CHECKS TRUSTED_STUB_SYNC=true, no hard-stops), but the semantic reality contradicts that: six required org gates are RED (caller-stub-freeze, template-drift, sync-scope-guard, agent-shield-stub, pr-auto-review-stub, bats), so it fails the CI gate and cannot be approved. The stub-freeze/template-drift/sync-scope-guard failures confirm the channel swap (stable->next on add-to-project, agent-shield, dev-lead) and the removal of pr-auto-review's Dependabot skip guard are outside allowed stub-sync scope, and the guard removal reintroduces the documented Dependabot startup token failure (the mirror #864 guard is still active in dev-lead-reusable.yml). No linked issue; DOWNSTREAM_IMPACT (none). Escalating on my own findings (not to security audit): the carve-out neutralizes only the secrets/GitHub-Actions HIGH grounds, not a failing CI gate or a genuine logic regression.

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  • major: Required CI is RED: caller-stub-freeze, template-drift, sync-scope-guard, agent-shield-stub, pr-auto-review-stub and bats all FAILURE (mergeState=BLOCKED). caller-stub-freeze + template-drift failing means the caller stubs no longer match canonical frozen content; sync-scope-guard failing means the change touches more than a channel-tag sync is permitted to (the removed Dependabot if: guard). This directly refutes the 'deployed verbatim' claim in the PR body and is a hard approval-gate failure.
  • major: Removing the if: github.actor != 'dependabot[bot]' && github.event.pull_request.user.login != 'dependabot[bot]' guard from pr-auto-review makes the job run on Dependabot-authored events. Per the removed comment ([Fleet Monitor] petry-projects/.github-private — .github/workflows/pr-auto-review.yml #1390), a Dependabot pull_request run has no access to GH_PAT_WORKFLOWS, so the reusable's ready-check checkout fails at startup with 'Input required and not supplied: token'. The mirror bug(dev-lead): caller stub fires on Dependabot PRs and fails at startup (secrets unavailable) #864 guard is STILL present and active in dev-lead-reusable.yml (lines ~86-97) for the identical reason, so there is no evidence the underlying token gap was fixed org-wide — removing this guard most likely resurfaces the false red-X on every Dependabot PR (which dependabot-automerge already handles and which never needs the review dispatch).
  • minor: The PR edits the header directive to read 'You MUST NOT change: the @pr-auto-review/v1-stable channel', but the actual uses: line (line 65) remains pr-auto-review-reusable.yml@pr-auto-review/v1-next. The comment now contradicts the code it protects: it names v1-stable while the workflow still resolves v1-next. This mismatch is a signal the sync tooling is confused about the canonical channel for this stub (reinforced by the failing stub-freeze/template-drift checks).
  • major: add-to-project.yml, agent-shield.yml and dev-lead.yml are moved from the *-stable channel to unreleased *-next (uses: and forwarded agent_ref). agent-shield is the org security scanner, so this routes CI through unreleased scan behavior; dev-lead.yml self-references this repo's own dev-lead-reusable.yml@dev-lead/v139-next, which CodeAnt flags (Critical) as rearming a self-hosting circular dependency SC2 requires this stub to avoid. Corroborated by the failing *-stub validation checks. This is the opposite direction of a normal stable promotion and is not a benign verbatim sync.

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Review — fix requested (cycle 2/3)

The automated review identified the following issues. Please address each one:

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Risk: MEDIUM
Reviewed commit: 956afe27bfae831041515bea04ef50b3a41799d6
Cascade: triage → deep (triage: haiku 4.5 [sonnet 5] → deep: opus 4.8 [sonnet 5] + duck: o4-mini → audit: fable 5)

Summary

Claims to be a verbatim standards-sync of four caller stubs, but it is not: three stubs (dev-lead, agent-shield, add-to-project) are flipped from the canonical stable channel to next, and pr-auto-review.yml both drops its #1390 Dependabot guard and edits its header doc to say v1-stable while the uses: line stays v1-next. The repo's own deterministic guards agree — sync-scope-guard, caller-stub-freeze, template-drift, agent-shield-stub, pr-auto-review-stub and bats are all FAILURE — and the critical/major CodeAnt advisories (circular-dependency re-arm, unreleased scan behavior, loss of stable-channel rollback control) are unaddressed. The TRUSTED_STUB_SYNC carve-out neutralizes the secret-forwarding HIGH classification but does not waive a red CI gate or a functional regression, so this cannot be approved; escalating on own findings (no security-audit tier needed since secret handling is unchanged and no security anti-pattern is introduced).

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  • major: pr-auto-review.yml removes the [Fleet Monitor] petry-projects/.github-private — .github/workflows/pr-auto-review.yml #1390 Dependabot skip guard (if: github.actor != 'dependabot[bot]' && github.event.pull_request.user.login != 'dependabot[bot]'). Dependabot pull_request runs have no access to GH_PAT_WORKFLOWS, so the secrets expression resolves empty and the reusable's ready-check checkout fails at startup with 'Input required and not supplied: token'. This reintroduces the exact false-failure the guard was added to prevent; the CodeRabbit summary misdescribes it as a feature ('reviews now also run for Dependabot PRs') when the actual effect is a startup failure. Dependabot PRs are already handled by dependabot-automerge.yml and never need the review dispatch.
  • major: pr-auto-review.yml is internally contradictory after this diff: the header 'You MUST NOT change' comment is edited to reference @pr-auto-review/v1-stable, but the actual uses: line still resolves @pr-auto-review/v1-next. Doc and code now disagree, which is the opposite direction from the other three stubs (stable->next) and proves the PR is not the 'deployed verbatim' sync the description claims.
  • major: dev-lead.yml flips both uses: and agent_ref from dev-lead/v139-stable to dev-lead/v139-next. The dev-lead-reusable is hosted in THIS repo (.github-private), so a next-channel self-reference re-arms the self-hosting circular dependency that SC2 requires this caller to avoid (CodeAnt: Critical). The canonical baseline for this stub is the stable channel (confirmed locally: template_stub_drift.sh derives its baseline from standards/v1-stable and shows dev-lead ALIGNED on base).
  • major: agent-shield.yml (v2-stable->v2-next) and add-to-project.yml (v1-stable->v1-next, incl. agent_ref) move required callers off the canonical stable channel. Effects: agent-shield runs unreleased scan behavior and fails canonical stub validation; add-to-project loses stable-channel promotion/rollback control (CodeAnt: Major x2). Local template_stub_drift.sh confirms the standards-derived baseline for these stubs is stable-channel, so the next-channel refs are a genuine deviation.
  • major: Required CI is red on exactly the deterministic stub-validation guards for this change class: sync-scope-guard, caller-stub-freeze, template-drift, agent-shield-stub, pr-auto-review-stub (all FAILURE), plus bats FAILURE. mergeStateStatus is BLOCKED. A failing CI gate blocks approval independent of risk tier; the standards-sync/trusted-stub carve-out does not waive it.

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pr-review approved on PARTIAL advisory evidence: 4/6 required advisory bots reported before the gate's quiescence-timeout fallback proceeded. Recorded for the miss-rate metric (#1596).

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pr-review approved on PARTIAL advisory evidence: 4/6 required advisory bots reported before the gate's quiescence-timeout fallback proceeded. Recorded for the miss-rate metric (#1596).

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Advisory bots were rate-limited; auto-approval is withheld until they recover. pr-review-sweep will re-review this PR after 2026-09-21T03:06:55Z.

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pr-review approved on PARTIAL advisory evidence: 4/6 required advisory bots reported before the gate's quiescence-timeout fallback proceeded. Recorded for the miss-rate metric (#1596).

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Blocking: this sync rewrites the one field the standard designates as repo-owned, and it downgrades dev-lead to next in the repo that hosts dev-lead

Reviewed as part of a fleet-wide queue audit. codeant-ai flagged three of these; the diff confirms all of them and shows the change is also self-inconsistent.

What the diff actually does

-    uses: …/add-to-project-reusable.yml@add-to-project/v1-stable
+    uses: …/add-to-project-reusable.yml@add-to-project/v1-next
-    uses: …/agent-shield-reusable.yml@agent-shield/v2-stable
+    uses: …/agent-shield-reusable.yml@agent-shield/v2-next
-    uses: …/dev-lead-reusable.yml@dev-lead/v139-stable
+    uses: …/dev-lead-reusable.yml@dev-lead/v139-next

and, in the opposite direction, for pr-auto-review:

-#   • You MUST NOT change: the `@pr-auto-review/v1-next` channel …
+#   • You MUST NOT change: the `@pr-auto-review/v1-stable` channel …

Three stubs move stable → next; a fourth's "MUST NOT change" annotation moves next → stable. A verbatim sync should not produce changes in both directions.

Why the dev-lead line is the serious one

.github-private hosts dev-lead-reusable.yml. Its stub pins a stable tier deliberately, and says so in the file:

Pinned to the moving dev-lead/v139-stable channel tag, not @main, so a broken change to dev-lead can no longer gate its own fix (the self-host circular dependency). This repo sits in ring next, but this stub DELIBERATELY pins a STABLE tier: Safe Release SC2 (#503 / epic #495) requires that a broken change to dev-lead can no longer gate its own fix.

Moving it to dev-lead/v139-next rearms exactly that circular dependency, in the one repository where it bites: a bad dev-lead change would then block the PR that fixes dev-lead. This is the incident class epic #495 / SC2 exists to prevent.

The sync is overriding a field the template says belongs to the repo

petry-projects/.github/standards/workflows/dev-lead.yml is explicit that the channel pin is a legitimate per-repo variation, not drift:

…identical in every repo, modulo the per-repo ring/channel pin on the uses: ref and its matching agent_ref (below). Any other diff is drift, not a repo-specific liberty.

The template's own pin is dev-lead/v1-stable; this repo's is dev-lead/v139-stable. The version components differ per repo too, which is further evidence this field is repo-owned. So the sync rewrote the single field it was told to leave alone — and it did not even land on the template's value, it landed on next.

Requested disposition

  1. Do not merge as-is. Keeping needs-human-review on until resolved.
  2. Re-open this sync with the four channel pins preserved at their current per-repo values, so the diff contains only genuine standard drift. If that leaves an empty diff, the correct outcome is to close it.
  3. Fix the generator, or this PR returns on the next run. Tracked separately as #1866.

Not requesting changes formally only because GitHub does not permit it on one's own PR — treat this as blocking.

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pr-review approved on PARTIAL advisory evidence: 4/6 required advisory bots reported before the gate's head-age-timeout fallback proceeded. Recorded for the miss-rate metric (#1596).

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Advisory bots were rate-limited; auto-approval is withheld until they recover. pr-review-sweep will re-review this PR after 2026-09-21T14:28:05Z.

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Advisory bots were rate-limited; auto-approval is withheld until they recover. pr-review-sweep will re-review this PR after 2026-09-22T02:53:39Z.

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Closing rather than fixing in place. This PR's diff moves dev-lead, agent-shield and add-to-project from their stable channel pins to next — see the blocking review above for why the dev-lead line in particular rearms the SC2 self-host circular dependency, and why the pin is a field the org template designates as repo-owned.

It cannot be salvaged by editing: the generator will keep producing the same diff until #1866 lands. Once it does, re-run the sync and the resulting PR should contain only genuine standard drift — including the merge_group triggers from petry-projects/.github#1157 that this repo still needs for the merge queue (#1871 / #1864).

Nothing is lost by closing: no unique work lives on this branch, and leaving it open risks someone waving through the channel downgrade. Tracked by #1866.

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don-petry added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 22, 2026
…annel pin it is told to preserve — PR #1819 would move dev-lead from stable to next in the repo that hosts it (#1889)

* feat: implement issue #1866 — standards-sync rewrites the per-repo channel pin it is told to preserve — PR #1819 would move dev-lead from stable to next in the repo that hosts it

* chore: dev-lead update (review-changes) [skip ci-relay]
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