fix(ci): grant the merge-approval gate pull-requests: write - #303
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…ft report comment The gate's standing impact-report comment 403s with 'Resource not accessible by integration' although issues: write is declared: for the Actions token, the issue-comments endpoint on a pull request is governed by the pull-requests scope (the same reason actions/stale documents both scopes for PR comments). statuses: write postings are unaffected, which is why only the comment upsert failed. Also make the report comment upsert fail-soft: the comment is an advisory review aid — its delivery failure must never block the verdict status. Fail-closed covers the verdict, not the review aid. A wiring test pins the try/catch.
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Also makes the report-comment upsert fail-soft (advisory review aid must never block the verdict status) — without this, the 403 would take down the merge-approval gate for every PR.
PR #300's merge-approval gate replacement (standing impact-report comment) 403s in CI: 'Resource not accessible by integration' on POST /issues/N/comments, despite
issues: writebeing granted (confirmed in the job's GITHUB_TOKEN permissions dump).Root cause: for the Actions token, the issue-comments endpoint on a pull request is governed by the
pull-requestsscope —issues: writealone is insufficient. This is the same reason actions/stale documents both scopes for PR comments.statuses: writepostings are unaffected, which is why only the comment upsert failed.One-line fix: add
pull-requests: writeto the gate workflow permissions.Skill harvest
no skill change — the failure is a GitHub token-scope subtlety, fixed in place.
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node --test tests/unit/tooling/mergeApprovalGate.test.js— 5/5 passnode scripts/check-behavior-contracts.js— pass