Drop labels; gate via bot-author + paths filter

Labels were doing two jobs — neither worth the friction of pre-creating
the labels in every repo that adopts this:

  1. Gating which PRs trigger augmentation. Replaced with the existing
     pull_request paths: filter (only YAML edits) + user.login check
     (must be renovate[bot]). Human PRs editing the YAML are out of
     scope; they should be reviewed normally without skill augmentation.
  2. Human filtering of "failed" / "needs-context" PRs. Replaced with
     PR body sections and a failure-path PR comment that carries the
     run URL.

Changes:
- Drop labels from Renovate packageRule in renovate.json.
- Drop --label from bootstrap gh pr create.
- Drop "Add needs-human-context label" step (gaps already shown in PR
  body).
- Simplify failure step to comment-only; drop upstream-docs-failed
  label. The PR comment already includes the run URL + retry hint.
- Drop labeled trigger type; no longer needed without label-race
  concerns.
- Drop label check from workflow_dispatch retry validation.

Also unblocks the first real dispatch, which failed on
"upstream-content not found" since the label was never pre-created.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: rdimitrov

.github/workflows/upstream-release-docs.yml

@@ -26,9 +26,7 @@ name: Upstream Release Docs
 
 on:
   pull_request:
-    # `labeled` is included to close the race where Renovate's
-    # labels aren't yet on the PR at the `opened` event payload.
-    types: [opened, reopened, labeled]
+    types: [opened, reopened]
     paths:
       - '.github/upstream-projects.yaml'
   workflow_dispatch:
@@ -61,14 +59,16 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     timeout-minutes: 90
     # Gate: two accepted entry points.
-    #   - pull_request: Renovate-authored PR with upstream-content label.
+    #   - pull_request: Renovate-authored PR touching upstream-projects.yaml
+    #     (the `paths:` filter on the trigger already narrows to YAML edits).
     #   - workflow_dispatch: human manually retries or bootstraps.
+    # Human-authored PRs that happen to edit the YAML are out of scope and
+    # should be reviewed normally without skill augmentation.
     if: |
       github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' ||
       (
         github.event_name == 'pull_request' &&
-        github.event.pull_request.user.login == 'renovate[bot]' &&
-        contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'upstream-content')
+        github.event.pull_request.user.login == 'renovate[bot]'
       )
     env:
       GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
@@ -111,7 +111,6 @@ jobs:
                 PR_NUMBER="$DISPATCH_PR"
                 HEAD_REF=$(gh pr view "$PR_NUMBER" --json headRefName --jq .headRefName)
                 AUTHOR=$(gh pr view "$PR_NUMBER" --json author --jq '.author.login')
-                LABELS=$(gh pr view "$PR_NUMBER" --json labels --jq '[.labels[].name] | join(",")')
                 case "$AUTHOR" in
                   app/renovate|renovate[bot]|app/github-actions|github-actions[bot])
                     ;;
@@ -120,10 +119,6 @@ jobs:
                     exit 1
                     ;;
                 esac
-                if ! echo "$LABELS" | grep -q 'upstream-content'; then
-                  echo "::error::PR #$PR_NUMBER does not carry the upstream-content label (labels=$LABELS)."
-                  exit 1
-                fi
                 MODE="retry"
               else
                 # Bootstrap: branch and PR are created in the next step.
@@ -190,8 +185,6 @@ jobs:
           git commit -m "Bump $PROJECT_ID to $NEW_TAG"
           git push origin "$BRANCH"
 
-          # Open the PR with the same labels Renovate would apply, so
-          # downstream steps that read labels behave identically.
           # Heredoc so the YAML indent doesn't leak into the PR body.
           cat > /tmp/bootstrap-body.md <<EOF
           Manually dispatched by @$ACTOR via workflow run $RUN_URL.
@@ -206,9 +199,7 @@ jobs:
             --base "$BASE_REF" \
             --head "$BRANCH" \
             --title "Update $PROJECT_ID to $NEW_TAG (manual dispatch)" \
-            --body-file /tmp/bootstrap-body.md \
-            --label autogen-docs \
-            --label upstream-content
+            --body-file /tmp/bootstrap-body.md
 
           PR_NUMBER=$(gh pr view "$BRANCH" --json number --jq .number)
           echo "number=$PR_NUMBER" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
@@ -490,12 +481,6 @@ jobs:
               echo "$GAPS_BODY"
             fi
             echo "GAPS_EOF"
-
-            if [ -n "$GAPS_BODY" ]; then
-              echo "has_gaps=true"
-            else
-              echo "has_gaps=false"
-            fi
           } >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
 
       - name: Apply pin_files substitutions
@@ -631,21 +616,14 @@ jobs:
           REVIEWERS: ${{ steps.reviewers.outputs.list }}
         run: gh pr edit "$PR_NUMBER" --add-reviewer "$REVIEWERS"
 
-      - name: Add needs-human-context label
-        if: always() && steps.signals.outputs.has_gaps == 'true'
-        env:
-          PR_NUMBER: ${{ steps.eff.outputs.number }}
-        run: gh pr edit "$PR_NUMBER" --add-label needs-human-context
-
-      - name: Flag augmentation failure
-        # Runs only when a preceding step failed. Adds a label the
-        # operator can filter on and comments a retry pointer.
+      - name: Comment on augmentation failure
+        # Runs only when a preceding step failed. Comments a retry
+        # pointer on the PR so a human can see the run URL.
         if: failure()
         env:
           PR_NUMBER: ${{ steps.eff.outputs.number }}
           RUN_URL: ${{ github.server_url }}/${{ github.repository }}/actions/runs/${{ github.run_id }}
         run: |
-          gh pr edit "$PR_NUMBER" --add-label upstream-docs-failed || true
           gh pr comment "$PR_NUMBER" --body "Automated docs augmentation failed. Run: $RUN_URL
 
           Retry via the \`Upstream Release Docs\` workflow with \`pr_number=$PR_NUMBER\` once the underlying issue is resolved." || true

renovate.json

@@ -91,7 +91,6 @@
       "minimumReleaseAge": "24 hours",
       "minimumReleaseAgeBehaviour": "timestamp-optional",
       "ignoreUnstable": true,
-      "labels": ["autogen-docs", "upstream-content"],
       "rebaseWhen": "never",
       "recreateWhen": "never",
       "commitMessageTopic": "{{depName}}",