Closes#2235.
Switches the old dependency flow off now that #2232 landed the
replacement. Removes the five npm ecosystem entries (root plus each
client under clients/*) and, resolving the question #2229 left open, the
github-actions entry as well — so .github/dependabot.yml goes away
outright rather than being emptied, which its schema does not allow.
The github-actions entry had exactly the property #2229 exists to
remove: it opened a grouped monthly PR carrying no `Closes #N` and no
board card, the one standing exception to "every PR references an
issue". Deleting it unreplaced would have left 9 actions unwatched, and
`npm outdated` says nothing about actions, so the monthly sweep now also
checks every `uses:` ref under .github/workflows and renders the stale
ones as one more section of the same tracking issue.
Ranking comes from the release LIST, not `releases/latest`. That
endpoint returns the release GitHub designates most recent, not the
greatest version, so an action publishing a maintenance release for an
older major (a v6.9.1 cut after v8.0.0) would make a workflow pinned to
v7 compare against v6 and read as current — silently missing a whole
major upgrade, the one thing this check exists to catch.
Staleness is compared only to the precision the ref specifies. `v7` is a
moving major tag that GitHub repoints at every v7.x release, so `v7`
against a highest of `v7.0.1` is current and only `v8` makes it stale;
an exactly-pinned `v7.0.0` is behind `v7.0.1`; a SHA pin is deliberately
immovable and is never reported.
A release lookup suppresses only a 404 — the legitimate "this action has
never cut a release" answer — and throws on anything else. Treating a
rate limit or an expired token as "no release" is indistinguishable from
"not stale", and since every action here already sits on its latest
major, the resulting empty section is byte-identical to a healthy run.
`buildClearedBody` now speaks for both halves: once actions are in scope,
its npm-only wording would assert a clean bill of health the sweep never
checked.
Dependabot security updates are unaffected — they are configured in repo
settings, not in this file, and kept working while it was missing
entirely (#1833, #1840). That note moves into the workflow header rather
than dying with the file; #2233 is where they are turned off
deliberately. The script header, the workflow header and the generated
issue body all say version-update PRs rather than claiming Dependabot is
replaced wholesale.
Also renames the workflow's npm-outdated job to dependency-sweep now
that the sweep is no longer npm-only.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NGtzPg3UxMLszysQXXfqax
Signed-off-by: cliffhall <cliff@futurescale.com>
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