ci: gate Dependabot auto-merge on github.actor, not PR author - #616
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Fixes "PR is not from Dependabot, nothing to do" from dependabot/fetch-metadata. The job gated on the PR author (always dependabot), so it ran even when a human triggered the event (e.g. clicked "Update branch"); fetch-metadata then checks github.actor, sees the human, and aborts with exit 1. Gating the whole job on `github.actor == 'dependabot[bot]'` (GitHub's documented pattern) means human-triggered events skip cleanly instead of failing. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Fixes the "PR is not from Dependabot, nothing to do" error seen on #611.
Cause: the job was gated on
github.event.pull_request.user.login == 'dependabot[bot]'(the PR author), so it ran even when a human triggered the event — e.g. clicking "Update branch" (run showedtriggering_actor: nolik).dependabot/fetch-metadatathen checksgithub.actor(the human), can't confirm Dependabot, and exits 1.Fix: gate the job on
github.actor == 'dependabot[bot]'— the event's triggering actor, which is whatfetch-metadatarequires and GitHub's docs recommend. Now:github.actoris Dependabot → job runs (approve + auto-merge).🤖 Generated with Claude Code