feat: implement issue #874 — [Phase 2] Repin .github-private's feature-ideation.yml stub to the feature-ideation/next channel + update its compliance test

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Closes #874

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Chores
  • Updated internal workflow configuration to use a mutable channel reference, improving flexibility for feature ideation processes. Updated corresponding validation tests to ensure proper configuration.

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📒 Files selected for processing (2)

• .github/workflows/feature-ideation.yml
• tests/test_feature_ideation.bats

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The uses: reference in .github/workflows/feature-ideation.yml is changed from a pinned commit SHA (897e4de…) to the mutable feature-ideation/next channel tag, with an added comment block documenting it as a sanctioned ring-release exception. tests/test_feature_ideation.bats drops the V1_SHA/V2_SHA variables and SHA-based assertions, replacing them with a CHANNEL constant and a check that the uses: line matches @feature-ideation/next.

Changes

Feature-ideation channel repin

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Workflow repin, comment block, and test assertions .github/workflows/feature-ideation.yml, tests/test_feature_ideation.bats	uses: line updated from the @897e4de… SHA to @feature-ideation/next; a comment block documents the sanctioned ring-release pin exception. Test constants replace V1_SHA/V2_SHA with CHANNEL=feature-ideation/next, and the grep assertions are rewritten to verify the channel tag pin.

Estimated code review effort

🎯 1 (Trivial) | ⏱️ ~3 minutes

Possibly related PRs

• petry-projects/.github-private#805: Modifies the same feature-ideation.yml uses: pin and test_feature_ideation.bats assertions, but in the opposite direction — enforcing @v1 rather than a channel tag.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title accurately reflects the main change: repinning feature-ideation.yml to the feature-ideation/next channel and updating its test.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	All acceptance criteria from issue #874 are met: uses line pinned to @feature-ideation/next, no other stub changes, test updated for channel pin, and in-stub comment documenting the sanctioned exception.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	All changes are scoped to the two files specified in issue #874 (.github/workflows/feature-ideation.yml and tests/test_feature_ideation.bats) with no extraneous modifications.

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Code Review

This pull request updates the regression tests in tests/test_feature_ideation.bats to reflect a transition from pinning the reusable workflow to a specific SHA (@v1) to pinning it to a channel tag (feature-ideation/next). The reviewer suggests improving test maintainability and debugging by using a generic test description and outputting the matched line before asserting.

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

Findings to fix

Automated review — NEEDS HUMAN REVIEW

Risk: MEDIUM
Reviewed commit: 4120697349a2653783bc031ba771b057430409ca
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Summary

PR repins feature-ideation.yml's reusable uses: from the frozen @897e4de… # v1 SHA to the mutable channel tag @feature-ideation/next, and rewrites the bats compliance test to assert the channel pin. The mutable-ref-for-first-party-channel-tags pattern is itself sanctioned org policy (AGENTS.md §'Release channel tags & the mutable-ref exception'), and the diff matches issue #874's acceptance criteria exactly. BUT issue #874 set an explicit HARD GATE to confirm before merge: the feature-ideation/next channel tag must already exist on petry-projects/.github. It does not. Querying that repo (token can read it — it resolves the old v1 SHA and lists idea-triage/next, initiative-planner/next, etc.) returns NO feature-ideation/* refs at all. Merging would point the live workflow at an unresolvable ref and break its uses: resolution on the next schedule/dispatch/discussion run. Escalating for human action on the upstream prerequisite.

Linked issue analysis

Closes #874. ACs #1–#4 (channel-tag repin, no other stub changes, updated bats assertions, in-stub sanctioned-exception comment) are all implemented correctly in the diff. However #874's Dev Notes define a HARD GATE: '(a) the feature-ideation/next channel tag must already exist on petry-projects/.github … otherwise this repin breaks the uses: resolution … Confirm both are in place before merging.' Verification against petry-projects/.github shows the tag is ABSENT (git/matching-refs/tags/feature-ideation → []; heads variant → []; no feature-ideation/* in the tag list, though sibling agents' /next tags exist). Prerequisite (a) is unmet, so the linked issue is NOT yet safe to close.

Findings

• BLOCKING (correctness): .github/workflows/feature-ideation.yml now pins feature-ideation-reusable.yml@feature-ideation/next, but that ref does not exist on petry-projects/.github. The reusable path itself is valid (the prior @897e4de v1 SHA resolves), so only the channel tag is missing. On the next schedule/workflow_dispatch/discussion:created run, GitHub will fail to resolve the uses: ref and the workflow will error. The upstream channel tag must be created (by an org admin / the promotion automation — agents running as GITHUB_TOKEN cannot move/create these per the release-channel-tags ruleset) BEFORE this merges.
• INFO: The sanctioned-exception comment block and the AGENTS.md mutable-ref policy are correct and not a security concern — the issue is purely that the target ref is not yet published.
• INFO: Verify hard-gate (b) too — that the org non-stub-feature-ideation.yml compliance audit already accepts a channel-tag pin (else the Compliance: non-stub-feature-ideation.yml #629 'reusable not pinned' finding may re-file). This lives in petry-projects/.github and could not be confirmed from here.
• NOTE: The dev-lead AI agent has looped ~12× with 'no-changes' on this PR; the blocker is an external/upstream prerequisite, not an in-repo code fix, so this is routed to human review rather than back to AI delegation.

CI status

All required checks green on the reviewed head 4120697349a2653783bc031ba771b057430409ca (Lint, shellcheck, bats, unit-tests, CodeQL python+actions, SonarCloud/Quality Gate passed, gitleaks, AgentShield, validate-agent-profiles, gh-aw-compile). coderabbitai APPROVED at head; SonarCloud Quality Gate passed (0 new issues, 0 hotspots). Non-blocking: CodeRabbit pre-merge 'Docstring Coverage' warning (N/A to YAML/bats). mergeStateStatus=BLOCKED, reviewDecision=REVIEW_REQUIRED (org-leads code-owner approval still pending). Green CI does NOT cover the missing upstream channel tag — CI never resolves the reusable's remote ref.

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Issues
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