Add workflow to rerun potentially transient failures

Author: henrymercer

.github/workflows/deflake.yml

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+# Workflow runs on main, on a release branch, and that were triggered as part of a merge group have
+# already passed CI before being merged. Therefore if they fail, we should make sure that there
+# wasn't a transient failure by rerunning the failed jobs once before investigating further.
+name: Deflake
+
+on:
+  workflow_run:
+    types: [completed]
+
+jobs:
+  rerun-on-failure:
+    name: Rerun failed workflows
+    if: >-
+      github.event.workflow_run.conclusion == 'failure' &&
+      github.event.workflow_run.run_attempt == 1 &&
+      (
+        github.event.workflow_run.head_branch == 'main' ||
+        startsWith(github.event.workflow_run.head_branch, 'releases/') ||
+        github.event.workflow_run.event == 'merge_group'
+      )
+    runs-on: ubuntu-slim
+    permissions:
+      actions: write
+    steps:
+      - name: Rerun failed jobs in ${{ github.event.workflow_run.name }}
+        env:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
+          GH_REPO: ${{ github.repository }}
+          RUN_ID: ${{ github.event.workflow_run.id }}
+          RUN_NAME: ${{ github.event.workflow_run.name }}
+          RUN_URL: ${{ github.event.workflow_run.html_url }}
+        run: |
+          echo "Rerunning failed jobs for workflow run ${RUN_ID}"
+          gh run rerun "${RUN_ID}" --failed
+          echo "### Reran failed jobs :recycle:" >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
+          echo "" >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
+          echo "Workflow: [${RUN_NAME}](${RUN_URL})" >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"