ci: fix Renovate automerge — add bot self-approval workflow#23
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Branch protection requires 1 approving review on main, and Renovate cannot approve its own PRs — so every automerge:true rule in renovate.json was silently inert (PRs sat REVIEW_REQUIRED forever despite passing checks). Add a workflow that approves a PR only when it's from renovate[bot], same-repo (not a fork), and carries the 'automerge' label — which renovate.json now attaches only to the pre-decided safe classes (dev-tooling patch/minor, github-actions digests, lockfile maintenance). Prisma, base images, and majors carry no such label and still require a human review. Also enabled the 'Allow auto-merge' repo setting (was off), required for Renovate's platformAutomerge request to take effect once approved.
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Summary
Renovate's automerge rules were silently inert: branch protection on
mainrequires 1 approving review, and Renovate cannot approve its own PRs. PR #22 (the forcedactions/checkoutbump) passed all checks and satREVIEW_REQUIRED/BLOCKEDindefinitely — confirmed live before writing this fix.Changes:
.github/workflows/renovate-approve.yml: approves a PR only whengithub.actor == 'renovate[bot]', the PR head is same-repo (not a fork), and it carries theautomergelabel.renovate.json: attach"labels": ["automerge"]only to the pre-decided safe classes (dev-tooling patch/minor where applicable, github-actions digests, lockfile maintenance). Prisma, Docker base images, and majors carry no such label, so they still require a human review — unchanged from the original policy.Validated offline:
npx renovate-config-validator renovate.json→Config validated successfully.Follow-up to #9.
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renovate-config-validatorpasses