Slim down dependabot triage comments by williammartin · Pull Request #14019 · cli/cli

williammartin · 2026-07-30T15:26:17Z

Description

The dependabot-triage agentic workflow posts a merge-assessment comment on every open Dependabot PR. The comment it produces today is mostly padding: it restates the dependency name, the from/to versions, the semver label, and the ecosystem, all of which are already in the PR title, plus CI status that is visible on the PR page and a "compatibility score" line that reports only that Dependabot's badge exists.

Here is a representative example. Of the eight facts it lists, one is genuinely useful: the summary of what changed upstream.

This changes the output so it replaces the work a maintainer actually does when verifying a bump, rather than narrating metadata already on screen. The comment becomes a recommendation line plus prose, and nothing else:

**Recommendation: Merge, Confidence: High**

The bump is a single upstream commit, [`e89c65e`](https://github.com/github/gh-aw/commit/e89c65e17eb281bbd5ff2ff9e9199a03e96654c7),
which syncs the bundled action scripts and `models.json` from [gh-aw v0.83.4](https://github.com/github/gh-aw/releases/tag/v0.83.4).
It adds one new script, [`repo_memory_patch_size.cjs`](https://github.com/github/gh-aw/blob/v0.83.4/actions/repo_memory_patch_size.cjs),
and makes incremental edits to existing ones. Nothing changes the action's inputs,
outputs, or entrypoint, so no workflow in this repository needs updating.

_Assessed at head commit `45db9b27b26d08514ce1a3b9d4b674a9662a8155`._

Three substantive changes came out of the rewrite rather than just deleting bullets.

The two axes are now independent. The old rubric folded CI status into confidence: "failing CI caps confidence at Low". That is backwards. If CI is reproducibly red, you are highly confident the PR should not be merged. Recommendation (Merge / Review before merging / Do not merge) now answers what the maintainer should do and is driven by risk; confidence answers how sure the agent is and is driven purely by evidence quality. That makes Do not merge, Confidence: High and Review before merging, Confidence: Low both expressible, where previously they would have collapsed into the same "Low".

Coverage analysis is new. The skill now maps changed upstream behavior to this repository's usage and to the tests and CI jobs that exercise it, and names the specific missing scenario when there isn't one. It is surfaced only when a material gap exists, so silence means no gap was found.

References become real links. Commits, releases, files, and advisories are emitted as markdown links built from data actually fetched through the GitHub MCP tools, so a reviewer can click through to the evidence.

Authorship and follow-up

Who wrote this:

A human wrote it.
An agent wrote it under close human direction.
An agent wrote it independently, and no human has guided the implementation beyond the initial prompt.

Who answers review comments:

@williammartin will read and reply directly.
An agent will draft replies and @username will read them before they are posted.
Nobody has explicitly committed to replying.

Replace the old merge-confidence framing with separate recommendation and confidence axes. Tighten the posted output to dense prose and add coverage-gap guidance while preserving the literal head-SHA dedup marker. Co-authored-by: Copilot App <[email protected]> Copilot-Session: 92242e78-0b8a-4abc-9481-094c4090893e

Copilot

Pull request overview

This PR refines the dependabot-triage agentic workflow’s posted assessment comment to remove redundant metadata and focus on actionable maintainer guidance: a recommendation + confidence line followed by concise prose grounded in upstream changes, with richer evidence linking and new coverage-gap surfacing.

Changes:

Updates the workflow/skill contract from a single “merge-confidence” axis to independent Recommendation and Confidence axes.
Replaces the previous “key facts”/metadata-heavy output with a strict prose-based comment format, including explicit link-generation rules and a dedup-marker carve-out.
Regenerates the compiled workflow lock metadata to reflect the updated markdown sources.

Show a summary per file

File	Description
.github/workflows/dependabot-triage.md	Updates workflow description and step wording to align with the new recommendation+confidence assessment model.
.github/workflows/dependabot-triage.lock.yml	Refreshes generated hashes and embedded description strings produced by `gh aw compile`.
.github/skills/dependabot-triager/SKILL.md	Redefines the output contract and rubric (two-axis model), adds coverage-gap guidance, and tightens link/format rules while preserving dedup behavior.

Review details

Tip

Add Copilot custom instructions for smarter, more guided reviews. Learn how to get started.

Files reviewed: 3/3 changed files
Comments generated: 1
Review effort level: Lite

A recommendation is emitted, not assessed. The old text read 'assesses a merge-confidence level', where the verb fit; swapping in 'recommendation' kept the verb and inverted the meaning. Match the skill frontmatter's 'emits', and use 'decide' for the two step headings. Co-authored-by: Copilot App <[email protected]> Copilot-Session: 92242e78-0b8a-4abc-9481-094c4090893e

This MR contains the following updates: | Package | Update | Change | |---|---|---| | [cli/cli](https://github.com/cli/cli) | minor | `v2.97.0` → `v2.98.0` | MR created with the help of [el-capitano/tools/renovate-bot](https://gitlab.com/el-capitano/tools/renovate-bot). **Proposed changes to behavior should be submitted there as MRs.** --- ### Release Notes <details> <summary>cli/cli (cli/cli)</summary> ### [`v2.98.0`](https://github.com/cli/cli/releases/tag/v2.98.0): GitHub CLI 2.98.0 [Compare Source](cli/cli@v2.97.0...v2.98.0) #### Security A security vulnerability has been identified, and fixed, that binds the local forwarded port to all available network interfaces by default. Users of `gh codespace ports forward` are advised to update `gh` to version `v2.98.0` as soon as possible. For more information see: <GHSA-vfhh-p7hm-pxfh> #### Support worktrees in `pr checkout` Users can now checkout a pull request into a git worktree by using the new `--worktree PATH` flag in `gh pr checkout`: ```shell gh pr checkout 12 --worktree ../wt-feature ``` #### Add semantic search to `search issues` The `gh search issues` command now supports semantic search for issues. Users can select the search type by passing the `--search-type` flag: ```shell gh search issues --search-type semantic ... gh search issues --search-type hybrid ... ``` For more information about semantic search see: ["Improved Search for github issues is now generally available"](https://github.blog/changelog/2026-04-02-improved-search-for-github-issues-is-now-generally-available/). #### What's Changed ##### ✨ Features - Add --worktree flag to gh pr checkout by [@tidy-dev](https://github.com/tidy-dev) in [#13946](cli/cli#13946) - Set GH\_EXTENSION=1 when gh invokes an extension by [@williammartin](https://github.com/williammartin) in [#14072](cli/cli#14072) - Add --search-type flag for semantic and hybrid issue search by [@michaeljacholke](https://github.com/michaeljacholke) in [#14006](cli/cli#14006) ##### 🐛 Fixes - Fix `RESTWithNext` error type, repairing `gh status` and attestation retries by [@williammartin](https://github.com/williammartin) in [#13988](cli/cli#13988) - Trim spaces when parsing X-Oauth-Scopes in `gh release create` by [@williammartin](https://github.com/williammartin) in [#14065](cli/cli#14065) - Fix project item-add output for non-TTY by [@zwick](https://github.com/zwick) in [#14056](cli/cli#14056) ##### 📚 Docs & Chores - Slim down dependabot triage comments by [@williammartin](https://github.com/williammartin) in [#14019](cli/cli#14019) - Require explicit MR review ownership by [@williammartin](https://github.com/williammartin) in [#14028](cli/cli#14028) - Collapse spam triage into the agentic issue-triage workflow by [@williammartin](https://github.com/williammartin) in [#14027](cli/cli#14027) - Run Dependabot triage every hour by [@sergiou87](https://github.com/sergiou87) in [#14030](cli/cli#14030) - Route deploy key requests through api.Client by [@williammartin](https://github.com/williammartin) in [#13989](cli/cli#13989) - Route ssh key requests through api.Client by [@williammartin](https://github.com/williammartin) in [#13994](cli/cli#13994) - Route gpg key requests through api.Client by [@williammartin](https://github.com/williammartin) in [#13997](cli/cli#13997) - Route autolink requests through api.Client by [@williammartin](https://github.com/williammartin) in [#14013](cli/cli#14013) - Route extension requests through api.Client by [@williammartin](https://github.com/williammartin) in [#14059](cli/cli#14059) - Route release creation through api.Client by [@williammartin](https://github.com/williammartin) in [#14062](cli/cli#14062) - Tell agents to use the MR template in AGENTS.md by [@williammartin](https://github.com/williammartin) in [#14074](cli/cli#14074) - Make Dependabot triage cheaper and more decisive by [@williammartin](https://github.com/williammartin) in [#14079](cli/cli#14079) - Route release deletions through api.Client by [@williammartin](https://github.com/williammartin) in [#14077](cli/cli#14077) - Give Dependabot triage a real reachability check by [@williammartin](https://github.com/williammartin) in [#14087](cli/cli#14087) - Restore automatic spam issue closure by [@williammartin](https://github.com/williammartin) in [#14088](cli/cli#14088) - Add a scheduled tech debt burndown skill by [@williammartin](https://github.com/williammartin) in [#14095](cli/cli#14095) - Use reflect.Pointer instead of deprecated reflect.Ptr by [@williammartin](https://github.com/williammartin) in [#14098](cli/cli#14098) - Clarify what belongs in the MR template's testing section by [@williammartin](https://github.com/williammartin) in [#14103](cli/cli#14103) - Rename cli-code-reviewer skill to code-review by [@BagToad](https://github.com/BagToad) in [#14116](cli/cli#14116) - Add aw-actions group to dependabot configuration by [@babakks](https://github.com/babakks) in [#14123](cli/cli#14123) - Isolate tests from local machine's auth and git configuration by [@BagToad](https://github.com/BagToad) in [#14128](cli/cli#14128) - Don't ask for feature detection cleanup comments when not needed by [@babakks](https://github.com/babakks) in [#14139](cli/cli#14139) - Accept pre-release tags in deployment validation by [@BagToad](https://github.com/BagToad) in [#14193](cli/cli#14193) - ci: add temporary step to verify Linux repo signing keys by [@babakks](https://github.com/babakks) in [#14202](cli/cli#14202) - Revert "ci: add temporary step to verify Linux repo signing keys" by [@babakks](https://github.com/babakks) in [#14203](cli/cli#14203) - Fix issue triage action compatibility \[skip changelog] by [@tidy-dev](https://github.com/tidy-dev) in [#14207](cli/cli#14207) #####

Dependencies - chore(deps): bump github.com/sigstore/sigstore-go from 1.2.2 to 1.3.0 by [@dependabot](https://github.com/dependabot)\[bot] in [#14047](cli/cli#14047) - chore(deps): bump the codeql-actions group across 1 directory with 3 updates by [@dependabot](https://github.com/dependabot)\[bot] in [#14049](cli/cli#14049) - chore(deps): bump google.golang.org/grpc from 1.82.1 to 1.83.0 by [@dependabot](https://github.com/dependabot)\[bot] in [#14048](cli/cli#14048) - chore(deps): bump github.com/google/go-containerregistry from 0.21.7 to 0.21.8 by [@dependabot](https://github.com/dependabot)\[bot] in [#14066](cli/cli#14066) - chore(deps): bump actions/attest from 4.2.1 to 4.2.2 by [@dependabot](https://github.com/dependabot)\[bot] in [#14100](cli/cli#14100) - chore(deps): bump azure/login from 3.0.0 to 3.0.1 by [@dependabot](https://github.com/dependabot)\[bot] in [#14101](cli/cli#14101) - chore(deps): bump the codeql-actions group across 1 directory with 3 updates by [@dependabot](https://github.com/dependabot)\[bot] in [#14091](cli/cli#14091) - chore(deps): bump github/gh-aw-actions/setup-cli from 0.83.4 to 0.85.4 by [@dependabot](https://github.com/dependabot)\[bot] in [#14068](cli/cli#14068) - chore(deps): bump github.com/google/go-containerregistry from 0.21.8 to 0.21.9 by [@dependabot](https://github.com/dependabot)\[bot] in [#14119](cli/cli#14119) - chore(deps): bump github.com/klauspost/compress from 1.19.1 to 1.19.2 by [@dependabot](https://github.com/dependabot)\[bot] in [#14120](cli/cli#14120) - chore(deps): bump the aw-actions group with 2 updates by [@dependabot](https://github.com/dependabot)\[bot] in [#14147](cli/cli#14147) - chore: sign APT repository with both keys by [@babakks](https://github.com/babakks) in [#13271](cli/cli#13271) - chore(deps): bump github.com/yuin/goldmark from 1.8.4 to 1.8.5 by [@dependabot](https://github.com/dependabot)\[bot] in [#14029](cli/cli#14029) - chore(deps): bump actions/attest from 4.2.0 to 4.2.1 by [@dependabot](https://github.com/dependabot)\[bot] in [#14050](cli/cli#14050) - Bump golangci-lint in CI to v2.12.2 by [@williammartin](https://github.com/williammartin) in [#14102](cli/cli#14102) - chore(deps): bump the aw-actions group with 2 updates by [@dependabot](https://github.com/dependabot)\[bot] in [#14124](cli/cli#14124) - chore(deps): bump google.golang.org/protobuf from 1.36.11 to 1.36.12 by [@dependabot](https://github.com/dependabot)\[bot] in [#14140](cli/cli#14140) - Upgrade gh-aw workflows to v0.85.4 by [@tidy-dev](https://github.com/tidy-dev) in [#14141](cli/cli#14141) - Bump Go to 1.26.6 by [@github-actions](https://github.com/github-actions)\[bot] in [#14143](cli/cli#14143) - chore: bump go to 1.26.7 by [@babakks](https://github.com/babakks) in [#14205](cli/cli#14205) - chore(deps): bump github.com/stretchr/testify from 1.11.1 to 1.12.1 by [@dependabot](https://github.com/dependabot)\[bot] in [#14204](cli/cli#14204) - chore(deps): bump the codeql-actions group across 1 directory with 3 updates by [@dependabot](https://github.com/dependabot)\[bot] in [#14169](cli/cli#14169) - chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.54.0 to 0.55.0 by [@dependabot](https://github.com/dependabot)\[bot] in [#14164](cli/cli#14164) - chore(deps): bump charm.land/lipgloss/v2 from 2.0.5 to 2.0.6 by [@dependabot](https://github.com/dependabot)\[bot] in [#14166](cli/cli#14166) - Bump gh-aw-actions to v0.87.1 and recompile agentic workflows by [@BagToad](https://github.com/BagToad) in [#14210](cli/cli#14210) #### New Contributors - [@sergiou87](https://github.com/sergiou87) made their first contribution in [#14030](cli/cli#14030) - [@michaeljacholke](https://github.com/michaeljacholke) made their first contribution in [#14006](cli/cli#14006) **Full Changelog**: <cli/cli@v2.97.0...v2.98.0> </details> --- ### Configuration 📅 **Schedule**: (UTC) - Branch creation - At any time (no schedule defined) - Automerge - At any time (no schedule defined) 🚦 **Automerge**: Disabled by config. Please merge this manually once you are satisfied. ♻ **Rebasing**: Whenever MR becomes conflicted, or you tick the rebase/retry checkbox. 🔕 **Ignore**: Close this MR and you won't be reminded about this update again. --- - [ ] If you want to rebase/retry this MR, check this box --- This MR has been generated by [Mend Renovate](https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate).

williammartin requested a review from Copilot July 31, 2026 11:07

Copilot started reviewing on behalf of williammartin July 31, 2026 11:08 View session

Copilot AI reviewed Jul 31, 2026

View reviewed changes

Comment thread .github/workflows/dependabot-triage.md

williammartin marked this pull request as ready for review July 31, 2026 11:23

williammartin requested a review from a team as a code owner July 31, 2026 11:23

williammartin requested a review from niik July 31, 2026 11:23

williammartin merged commit 4dee7a5 into trunk Jul 31, 2026
16 checks passed

williammartin deleted the williammartin-dependabot-triage-comment-format branch July 31, 2026 11:31

BrewTestBot mentioned this pull request Aug 20, 2026

gh 2.98.0 Homebrew/homebrew-core#299922

Merged

scottames-github-bot Bot mentioned this pull request Aug 26, 2026

chore(deps): update ⬆️ mise-packages scottames/dots#1029

Merged

1 task

jonahgeorge mentioned this pull request Aug 26, 2026

Add unreviewed-merge metric to the reviewer table jonahgeorge/gh-contributor-stats#2

Merged

Navigation Menu

Uh oh!

Slim down dependabot triage comments - #14019

Slim down dependabot triage comments#14019
williammartin merged 2 commits into
trunkfrom
williammartin-dependabot-triage-comment-format

williammartin commented Jul 30, 2026 •

edited

Loading

Uh oh!

Copilot AI left a comment

Uh oh!

Uh oh!

Uh oh!

Reviewers

Assignees

Labels

Projects

Milestone

Development

Uh oh!

2 participants

Uh oh!

Conversation

williammartin commented Jul 30, 2026 • edited Loading Uh oh! There was an error while loading. Please reload this page.

Uh oh!

Description

Authorship and follow-up

Uh oh!

Copilot AI left a comment

Choose a reason for hiding this comment

Pull request overview

Review details

Uh oh!

Uh oh!

Uh oh!

Reviewers

Assignees

Labels

Projects

Milestone

Development

Uh oh!

2 participants

williammartin commented Jul 30, 2026 •

edited

Loading