docs(auto-merge): reusable-workflow migration renames required checks - #182
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A called workflow reports as `<caller job> / <inner job>`, so converting an inline job to `uses:` renames its context even when the job id stays. On a repo with required status checks the old context never reports again and merges block forever with every visible check green. Three consequences from one render-guides migration: the ruleset must change in the same step, because the ` / ` segment cannot be avoided; no ordering keeps the gate closed, so the required contexts have to be dropped for the merge window; and commands that ran as steps inside a required job become separate checks that gate nothing unless the ruleset lists them, which silently weakens the gate. Adds the check-runs query to read the new names from a real run instead of predicting them. Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-5 Agent-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012etUMBrLPHyPV3bZFhZsiZ Agent-Host: 0493f0 Signed-off-by: Sebastian Mendel <github@sebastianmendel.de>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe auto-merge guide now documents that reusable workflows rename checks to Priority: ➖ Normal — Schedule the auto-merge guide update because reusable-workflow migrations can leave required checks permanently blocking merges. Severity of issue fixed: Medium Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to This guide documents how to preserve required checks during reusable-workflow migrations, but its check-name lookup command will not target the repository and its suffix guidance can lead to pending required checks. Correcting these instructions is needed before relying on the guide for branch-protection changes. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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In `@skills/github-project/references/auto-merge-guide.md`:
- Around line 325-326: Update the guidance around check-name matching to
restrict suffix matching to discovering the correct check run; configure
required contexts using that run’s complete emitted name via `.name`, such as
“Tests / Tests (PHP 8.2)”, rather than the suffix alone. Preserve the existing
warning against `==` comparisons.
- Line 317: Update the reusable-workflow description near “name lives in the
called workflow” to state that the workflow may be located in the same
repository or another repository, removing the cross-repository-only qualifier.
- Line 321: Update the gh api command for retrieving check runs to use the valid
{owner}/{repo} repository placeholders instead of :owner/:repo, while preserving
the existing <head-sha> path and pagination behavior.
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Review on #182 caught three things in the new migration section. A required context is compared for equality, so the closing advice to "match by suffix" was wrong where it mattered most: a suffix put into the ruleset matches nothing and leaves the check pending. Suffix matching belongs to discovery and to your own filtering code, not to the ruleset entry, which needs the complete emitted name. The command now uses gh's documented {owner}/{repo} placeholders, and the sentence about the called workflow no longer asserts it lives in another repository — it may sit in the same one. Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-5 Agent-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012etUMBrLPHyPV3bZFhZsiZ Agent-Host: 0493f0 Signed-off-by: Sebastian Mendel <github@sebastianmendel.de>
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auto-merge-guide.mdalready covers "required checks vs actual check names" and merge-queue behaviour, but not the migration case, which is where the two meet and bite.Converting an inline job to
uses: …/reusable.yml@mainrenames its check: a called workflow reports as<caller job name> / <inner job name>, and the/segment is always inserted, so an inlineTests (8.2)becomes at bestTests / Tests (PHP 8.2). On a repository with required status checks the old context then never reports again — and a required context that never reports blocks merges indefinitely while every visible check is green.Two further consequences were only obvious once measured on a real migration in
TYPO3-Documentation/render-guides:There is no ordering that keeps the gate closed. Switching the ruleset first blocks every other open PR, whose checks still report the old names; merging first blocks the queue. The workable sequence is to drop the required contexts for the merge window and set the new ones straight afterwards — a deliberate short window, not something to find out about halfway through a merge.
Commands that ran as steps inside a required job are implicitly required. Split into their own called jobs they become separate checks and gate nothing unless the ruleset lists them. In the case above
composer normalize --dry-run,make test-docsandmake test-rendertestwould have gone from required to optional as a side effect of a change whose stated subject was centralising action versions.The section also gives the
check-runsquery for reading the resulting names from an actual run, because the inner job name lives in the called workflow in another repository and can carry its own matrix suffix — predicting it is guesswork.Assisted by claude-code:claude-opus-5 — Session