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OpenFrontIO/scripts/pr-gate
evanpelle 0ab437ed54 Fix PR gate trusting author_association for org membership
author_association comes back as CONTRIBUTOR or NONE for team-based
contributors (e.g. members of the Contributor team), so the gate was
auto-closing PRs from people who clearly have write access.

Replace the author_association check with a live permission lookup via
repos.getCollaboratorPermissionLevel, which resolves direct, team, and
org access in one call. PRs from anyone with write/maintain/admin now
bypass the gate.
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PR Gate

Deterministic GitHub Action that auto-closes PRs that don't follow the project's contribution workflow. Trigger: pull_request_target: [opened, reopened].

Gate logic (first match wins)

  1. Maintainer bypass — PR carries the bypass-pr-check label → pass. Apply this label and reopen if the gate closed something you wanted through.
  2. Org/repo member bypassauthor_association is OWNER, MEMBER, or COLLABORATOR → pass.
  3. Approved-work bypass — PR body links an issue (via Closes #N / Fixes #N / Resolves #N) that carries the approved label, and the PR author is in the issue's assignees → pass.
  4. Small-fix bypassadditions + deletions ≤ 50 → pass + apply small-fix label.
  5. Otherwise — apply auto-closed-needs-issue label, post rejection comment, close.

Local testing

cd scripts/pr-gate
npm install
export GITHUB_TOKEN=ghp_... # PAT with repo scope
npx tsx index.ts --pr 1234  # always dry-run unless --no-dry-run

The CLI prints the decision and exits without touching the PR.

Toggling dry-run in production

  1. Go to repo Settings → Secrets and variables → Actions → Variables.
  2. Edit PR_GATE_DRY_RUN.
  3. Set to false to make the Action take real action; any other value (or unset) keeps it in dry-run mode.

The default is true — the gate logs decisions but does not act until the maintainer flips the variable.

Tweaking rules

Known limitations

  • Runs only on PR open/reopen — not on synchronize. A PR that grows past 50 lines after being passed will not be re-gated.
  • Cross-repo issue references (owner/repo#N) are not honored.
  • No LLM is called. This Action is fully deterministic.