#52 CI maintenance: clean up cspell.json and Slack notification wiring

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Summary

• Remove unused words from .vscode/cspell.json
• Use needs.<job>.result instead of needs.<job>.outputs.status for Slack notifications

Closes #52

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Resolves #52

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Code Quality

✅ Style guide - Changes are minimal CI/workflow fixes, no application code style concerns.

✅ No commented-out code - None present.

✅ Meaningful variable names - N/A for this diff.

✅ DRY principle - N/A for this diff.

✅ Defects - The fix is correct. Using needs.pylint.result (a built-in GitHub Actions job result property) instead of needs.pylint.outputs.status (a custom output that required explicit wiring) is the proper approach. The old pattern was fragile — if the job was cancelled before the output was set, the condition would fail silently. needs.<job>.result is always populated by the runner.

✅ Project CLAUDE.md - Not applicable / not present in diff.

Testing

✅ Unit/integration tests - Not applicable; these are CI workflow changes only.

✅ Test coverage - N/A.

Documentation

✅ README - No changes needed for CI-only fixes.

✅ API docs - N/A.

✅ Inline comments - N/A.

⚠️ CHANGELOG.md - Not included in the diff. If this project maintains a CHANGELOG, this CI maintenance fix may warrant a brief entry (e.g., under a "CI" or "Maintenance" section). Low severity — many projects don't log CI-only changes.

✅ Markdown formatting - No markdown files changed.

Security

✅ No hardcoded credentials - None.

✅ Input validation - N/A.

✅ Error handling - N/A.

✅ No sensitive data in logs - N/A.

✅ No license files - None present.

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Summary

The changes are clean and correct:

1. pylint.yaml — Properly replaces the custom outputs.status pattern with the native needs.pylint.result. This is more reliable because result is always set by the GitHub Actions runner regardless of job outcome, whereas a custom output can be undefined if the job is cancelled mid-run.

2. cspell.json — Removes the "esbenp" word (likely a VS Code extension author name that no longer appears in the codebase). Straightforward cleanup.

No blocking issues. The only minor item is the optional CHANGELOG entry.

Automated code review analyzing defects and coding standards

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Super-linter summary

Language	Validation result
CHECKOV	Pass ✅
GITHUB_ACTIONS	Pass ✅
GITHUB_ACTIONS_ZIZMOR	Pass ✅
GITLEAKS	Pass ✅
GIT_MERGE_CONFLICT_MARKERS	Pass ✅
JSCPD	Pass ✅
PRE_COMMIT	Pass ✅
SPELL_CODESPELL	Pass ✅
TRIVY	Pass ✅
YAML	Pass ✅
YAML_PRETTIER	Pass ✅

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