docs: Document gate label hygiene procedure (WA-PROC-002)

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Summary

Documents the repeatable procedure for keeping gate:build-passed / gate:build-failed labels in sync with actual GitHub Checks status.

Changes

• Adds docs/gate-label-hygiene.md with WA-PROC-002:
  • How to inspect PR checks status via gh CLI
  • How to apply/remove gate labels to match actual state
  • How to handle docs-only/skipped-checks PRs (treat SKIPPED as success)
  • Batch audit script to find all mismatched PRs before a release cut
  • End-to-end verification walkthrough

Verification

Applied the procedure to PR #1004 (ci: Add bundler-audit dependency scanning on PRs), which had a confirmed label mismatch:

• All 36 checks: COMPLETED / SUCCESS
• Label was: gate:build-pending ← stale

After running the documented steps:

• Label is now: gate:build-passed ✅

Closes #878

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Wave 1 Review — ⚠️ APPROVE WITH NOTES

PR: docs: Document gate label hygiene procedure (WA-PROC-002)

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Architecture ⚠️ (non-blocking)

• docs/gate-label-hygiene.md is placed at the docs/ root rather than docs/source/articles/ (where PR docs: Document Bundler frozen-mode lockfile mismatch (WA-DOC-010) #1006 placed its article). For an internal process/maintenance doc this is defensible — it is not a developer-facing article — but the inconsistency is worth noting. If there is a convention that internal process docs live at docs/ root (e.g. alongside the referenced docs/sdlc-project-board.md), this is fine; otherwise consider moving to docs/source/articles/ for discoverability.

• script/preflight is not mentioned in the PR description or the WA-PROC-002 acceptance criteria. The PR title and summary describe a docs-only change, but the diff includes a 242-line contributor preflight script. This is useful work but it is scope creep relative to the stated issue. It should be explicitly called out in the PR description (or split into a separate PR/issue). As shipped it is not harmful, but reviewers and issue trackers should know it is here.

Simplicity ✅

• docs/gate-label-hygiene.md (206 lines) is well-structured: background → quick reference → step-by-step → edge cases → batch audit → verification example. Appropriate depth for a repeatable ops procedure.
• script/preflight (242 lines) is clean and well-commented. The colour/output helper pattern is idiomatic. Each check is isolated and independently skip-able.

Security ✅

• All gh and git invocations in the doc snippets are read-only (inspect only) until the label-edit commands, which are intentional mutations.
• script/preflight is read-only, no file mutations. bundle config get is non-destructive. The RuboCop diff path (echo "$changed_files" | xargs rubocop) is safe for typical Ruby filenames.
• No sensitive data is exposed or logged.

Rails/Workarea Conventions ✅

• Doc uses sh code fences for shell snippets — consistent with other process docs.
• script/preflight follows script/ conventions: set -euo pipefail, BASH_SOURCE[0]-based cd, --help flag, exit codes.

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⚠️ Non-blocking notes

1. Undocumented script/preflight — update the PR description to mention this script explicitly so it does not surprise reviewers or get lost in triage. Consider whether it deserves its own issue/acceptance criteria.

2. jq batch audit script — potential correctness edge case. The if (.statusCheckRollup[] | select(.status != "COMPLETED")) then "pending" pattern iterates via [] inside an if condition. In jq, if evaluates each output of a generator independently; this works but the first non-COMPLETED item short-circuits the branch in a non-obvious way. Consider the more explicit:

   if any(.statusCheckRollup[]; .status != "COMPLETED") then "pending"
   elif any(.statusCheckRollup[]; .conclusion == "FAILURE") then "failed"
   else "passed" end

   This is clearer in intent and avoids reliance on generator-in-if semantics.

3. Verification example references PR ci: Add bundler-audit dependency scanning on PRs (WA-CI-014) #1004 (a different PR). This is fine as a real-world anchor, but if ci: Add bundler-audit dependency scanning on PRs (WA-CI-014) #1004 is ever closed/deleted the example becomes confusing. Consider noting that it is a historical example or replacing with a generic placeholder in the long run.

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All four Wave 1 checks pass. Core acceptance criteria met: procedure documented ✅, label IDs quick-referenced ✅, CLI commands provided ✅, docs-only/skipped-checks edge case handled ✅, batch audit script included ✅.

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Wave 2 Review — Database

Verdict: PASS

Documentation-only change. No database concerns.

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🔒 Rails Security Review — PASS

Reviewer: rails-security (automated, wave 2)
Scope: docs/gate-label-hygiene.md (206 lines), script/preflight (242 lines)

Findings

Check	Result
Secrets/tokens in documented commands	✅ None — all gh commands use standard OAuth flow, no hardcoded tokens
gh CLI permission scope	✅ Minimal — only gh pr view (read) and gh pr edit (label writes)
Security-sensitive advice	✅ None — procedure is read-only audit + label correction
Preflight script safety	✅ Read-only (set -euo pipefail, no --auto-correct, no file mutations)
Label Node IDs exposed	✅ Acceptable — GitHub GraphQL node IDs are public, not secrets

Verdict

No security concerns. Documentation describes read-only audit commands and non-destructive label edits. The preflight script explicitly avoids mutating state (rubocop runs without --auto-correct, bundler checks are read-only).

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  "wave": 2,
  "verdict": "PASS",
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  "notes": "Docs-only + read-only preflight script. No secrets, no elevated permissions, no destructive commands."
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Test Quality Review

Verdict: PASS

Summary

This PR is categorized as docs-only, and the absence of unit/integration tests for docs/gate-label-hygiene.md is entirely appropriate — documentation prose does not require test coverage.

Findings

1. Undisclosed Executable: script/preflight (Advisory)

The PR description states "docs-only" and the issue summary lists only docs/gate-label-hygiene.md, but the diff also contains script/preflight — a 242-line contributor-facing bash script. This file was not mentioned in the PR description or the issue acceptance criteria.

• The script is well-structured, read-only, and non-destructive ✓
• No bats/shellcheck tests exist for it, which is acceptable for a utility at this stage
• However: the PR title/description should be updated to reflect that a script was added, not just docs. This is a metadata accuracy issue, not a blocking defect.

2. jq Generator Expression in Batch Audit Script (Advisory)

In the batch audit jq filter inside docs/gate-label-hygiene.md, the if-elif conditions use generator expressions:

elif (.statusCheckRollup[] | select(.status != "COMPLETED")) then "pending"
elif (.statusCheckRollup[] | select(.conclusion == "FAILURE")) then "failed"

In jq 1.6+, when a generator condition produces multiple matches, the if block may emit multiple outputs per PR object instead of a single label. The safer idiom is:

elif any(.statusCheckRollup[]; .status != "COMPLETED") then "pending"
elif any(.statusCheckRollup[]; .conclusion == "FAILURE") then "failed"

This is advisory — the script is an illustrative pattern, not a production pipeline, and the current form will likely work in most cases (the first match short-circuits). But it is worth correcting to avoid confusing output when PRs have many failing checks.

3. gh CLI Commands — Accurate ✓

All gh pr view, gh pr edit --add-label, and gh pr edit --remove-label invocations use valid flags and field names (statusCheckRollup, labels). The note that --remove-label silently ignores absent labels is correct and useful.

4. Acceptance Criteria Coverage ✓

Criterion	Met?
Document how to check PR checks status via gh CLI	✓
Document how to apply/remove gate labels	✓
Include a batch audit script pattern	✓
Docs-only PR (with caveat re: script/preflight)	⚠️ Mostly — see finding #1

Verdict Rationale

No test gaps exist for documentation content. The two advisory findings (undisclosed script, jq generator idiom) do not block merge — they are low-severity improvements. Recommending merge with the PR description updated to acknowledge script/preflight.

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Accessibility Review

Verdict: PASS

This PR is docs/script-only (adds docs/gate-label-hygiene.md and script/preflight). No production code, view templates, UI components, or markup were modified. There are no accessibility concerns to evaluate.

N/A — no UI or view files present in this changeset.

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Frontend Review

Verdict: PASS

No JS, CSS, or view/template files were modified in this PR. Changes are limited to:

• docs/gate-label-hygiene.md — documentation only
• script/preflight — bash tooling script

Frontend impact: None. N/A review — no frontend assets touched.

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Performance Review

Verdict: PASS

This is a docs + contributor tooling PR with no production code path. Performance review scope is limited to script/preflight.

script/preflight

The bash script is well-structured and appropriately lightweight for a one-shot pre-PR tool. No performance concerns that matter in practice.

Minor observations (informational only — not flagged as defects):

1. Double docker info invocation — Check 1 calls docker info and Check 2 re-evaluates it via a conditional branch. Since docker info is a daemon round-trip (can take ~200–500 ms), caching the result in a variable would avoid the redundant call. For a preflight script run once interactively, this is entirely inconsequential but easy to tighten if desired:

   docker_ok=0
   docker info >/dev/null 2>&1 && docker_ok=1

2. Triple-fork line counter — echo "$changed_files" | wc -l | tr -d ' ' spawns three processes. Could use wc -l <<< "$changed_files" | tr -d ' ' (two forks) or ${#changed_files_array[@]} with an array. Difference is sub-millisecond; noted only for completeness.

Neither item warrants a change request. The script is read-only, runs sequentially, and has no loops over expensive operations. Performance is N/A for the documentation file.

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Wave 3 — performance reviewer