ci(workflows): reduce Actions noise and flakiness

- commitlint: skip Dependabot/Renovate PRs via actor+branch guards\n- ci: skip vsce packaging and vsix upload on PR events\n- release: guard publish job to tag refs only to avoid stray push runs\n- dependabot-auto-merge: enable auto-merge only if PR state is open

Author: masterkain

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -61,10 +61,11 @@ jobs:
         run: npm run package
 
       - name: Package VSIX (sanity)
+        if: github.event_name != 'pull_request'
         run: npx --yes @vscode/vsce package
 
       - name: Upload VSIX artifact
-        if: always()
+        if: github.event_name != 'pull_request' && always()
         uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
         with:
           name: vsix

.github/workflows/commitlint.yml

@@ -10,7 +10,12 @@ permissions:
 
 jobs:
   lint:
-    if: github.actor != 'dependabot[bot]'
+    # Skip bot-authored dependency PRs and bot edits to those PRs
+    # Commitlint failures on long Dependabot titles are noisy and non-blocking
+    if: >
+      github.event.pull_request.user.login != 'dependabot[bot]' &&
+      !startsWith(github.head_ref, 'dependabot/') &&
+      !startsWith(github.head_ref, 'renovate/')
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v5

.github/workflows/dependabot-auto-merge.yml

@@ -25,9 +25,9 @@ jobs:
           github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
 
       - name: Enable auto-merge
+        if: github.event.pull_request.state == 'open'
         uses: peter-evans/enable-pull-request-automerge@v3
         with:
           token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
           pull-request-number: ${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}
           merge-method: squash
-

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ env:
 
 jobs:
   publish:
+    # Extra guard to avoid stray runs if GitHub creates a run on branch pushes
+    if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/')
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - name: Checkout

.gitignore

@@ -4,3 +4,6 @@ node_modules
 .vscode-test/
 *.vsix
 .DS_Store
+
+# Local agent memory
+.serena/