#83 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 #83

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Resolves #83

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Code Review

Code Quality

✅ Style guide - Changes are minimal CI/workflow configuration only; no Python code changes to evaluate.

✅ No commented-out code - No commented-out code introduced.

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

✅ DRY principle - N/A for this diff.

✅ Defects - The core fix is correct. Using needs.pylint.result (a built-in GitHub Actions job result: success, failure, cancelled, skipped) is the proper approach instead of needs.pylint.outputs.status. The previous pattern was fragile because job.status in an outputs block may not always propagate as expected. This is a valid bug fix.

✅ CLAUDE.md - No changes to project configuration; no concerns.

Testing

✅ Unit/integration tests - Not applicable for CI workflow changes.

Documentation

✅ README - No documentation changes needed for CI maintenance.

✅ CHANGELOG.md - Not updated, but given this is a CI-only maintenance fix (removing unused output, fixing Slack notification wiring), it's a judgment call. For a project that maintains a CHANGELOG, this could warrant a minor entry, but it's not critical.

✅ Markdown/CommonMark - No markdown files changed.

Security

✅ No hardcoded credentials - Clean.

✅ No license files - None present.

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Summary

This is a clean, focused CI maintenance PR with two logical changes:

1. .github/workflows/pylint.yaml - Replaces the custom outputs.status pattern with the native needs.pylint.result, which is the correct GitHub Actions idiomatic approach. The outputs block on the pylint job is also removed as it's no longer needed.

2. .vscode/cspell.json - Removes esbenp and stackoverflow from the spell-check dictionary. These appear to have been unnecessary entries (likely added as false-positive suppressions that are no longer needed).

Verdict: Approved. No issues found. The changes are correct and improve CI reliability.

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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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