#136 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 #136

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Code Quality

✅ Style guide: CI/YAML changes follow standard GitHub Actions conventions.

✅ No commented-out code: No commented-out code present.

✅ Meaningful variable names: N/A for YAML workflow files.

✅ DRY principle: The pattern is consistently applied across all 7 workflow files.

✅ Defects: The fix is correct. Using needs.<job>.result is the proper GitHub Actions way to get job status in dependent jobs. The previous approach using job.status via outputs was unreliable because job.status at output evaluation time doesn't always reflect the final status (especially for cancelled jobs). The new approach using needs.<job>.result correctly evaluates to "failure", "cancelled", "success", or "skipped" after the job completes. This is a valid bug fix.

✅ CLAUDE.md: No issues - config is general enough for any developer.

Testing

✅ Unit/integration tests: Not applicable — CI workflow and spell-check config changes only.

✅ Edge cases: The always() condition combined with needs.<job>.result correctly handles cancelled jobs (which was likely broken before).

Documentation

✅ README: No user-facing changes requiring README updates.

✅ API docs: N/A.

✅ Inline comments: N/A — changes are self-explanatory.

⚠️ CHANGELOG.md: No CHANGELOG update included. Depending on project conventions, CI maintenance changes may warrant a changelog entry. Low priority for internal CI fixes.

✅ Markdown formatting: No markdown files changed.

Security

✅ No hardcoded credentials: Clean.

✅ Input validation: N/A.

✅ Error handling: N/A.

✅ No sensitive data in logs: N/A.

✅ No license files: No .lic files or AQAAAD-prefixed strings.

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Summary

Approve. This is a clean, correct CI maintenance fix. The core change — switching from job.status outputs to needs.<job>.result — is the idiomatic and reliable GitHub Actions approach for propagating job status to dependent jobs, particularly for detecting cancelled states. The cspell dictionary cleanup (removing esbenp, lukehinds, stackoverflow) removes words that are no longer needed in the codebase. No issues requiring changes before merge.

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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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