ci: skip changeset check on the changesets release PR

[marcinkrasowski]

Problem

The changesets release PR (#864, "Version Packages") fails check-changeset:

Error: No changeset found in this PR! You modified packages in framework, integrations, modules, or blocks.

That PR deletes every .changeset/*.md and bumps package.json + CHANGELOG.md across packages/framework, packages/blocks, etc. So:

• changed-packages sees the diff touch packages/(framework|integrations|modules|blocks)/ and sets requires_changeset=true
• check-changeset then looks for an added .changeset/*.md (--diff-filter=A) and finds none — the release PR consumes changesets, it doesn't add them

The job's if only ever exempted renovate[bot] (which gets a changeset generated for it by create-renovate-changeset). The release PR was never exempted, so it fails on every release cycle.

Fix

Add a head-branch exemption to check-changeset:

!startsWith(github.event.pull_request.head.ref, 'changeset-release/')

Matching on the branch prefix rather than github-actions[bot] ties the exemption to the actual mechanism — changeset-release/ is the branch changesets/action owns — instead of blanket-exempting anything opened with the default token.

A skipped job counts as success for required status checks, same as create-renovate-changeset already does on renovate PRs.

Unblocking #864

Re-running the failed job won't help — it replays a merge ref that predates this change. Once this lands on main, the push triggers release.yaml, which updates the changeset-release/main branch, firing synchronize on #864 so the checks re-run with the exemption in place.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Chores
  • Updated pull request quality checks to exempt changeset validation only for automated release branches originating from the same repository.
  • Fork-based pull requests with similarly named release branches now continue through changeset validation.
  • Added workflow guidance clarifying the repository-origin requirement.

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Walkthrough

The pull request workflow now skips check-changeset only for changeset-release/ branches from the current repository. Comments document the Renovate and release-PR behavior.

Changes

Changeset workflow filtering

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Restrict the changeset release exemption .github/workflows/pull-request.yaml	The check-changeset condition now requires both a changeset-release/ head branch and a matching head repository. Comments document the repository check and related changeset behavior.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 8c42b

The changeset check remains enabled for contributor forks and ordinary pull requests, while repository-managed release branches are exempted as intended.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the main change: skipping the changeset check for changesets release pull requests.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description clearly explains the failure, root cause, and proposed CI fix. It provides sufficient technical context and explains the release workflow impact, although it does not follow every temp…
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Inline comments:
In @.github/workflows/pull-request.yaml:
- Line 90: Update the changeset-release branch condition in the pull-request
workflow to require github.event.pull_request.head.repo.full_name to equal
github.repository while retaining the existing changeset-release/ prefix check,
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Coverage Report for packages/configs/vitest-config

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🔵	Statements	81.16%	2399 / 2956
🔵	Functions	75.83%	640 / 844
🔵	Branches	68.29%	1570 / 2299

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