fix(ci): exempt draft PRs from the stale-issue/PR auto-close workflow

[stepmikhaylov]

fix(ci): exempt draft PRs from the stale-issue/PR auto-close workflow

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Workflow Updates
  • Draft pull requests are no longer automatically marked as stale or closed, allowing them to remain open while work is in progress.
  • Branches associated with stale pull requests are automatically deleted when those pull requests are closed, keeping repository branches cleaner and reducing manual cleanup.
  • Automated stale pull request management now has the permissions required to complete these cleanup actions.

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• .github/workflows/stale.yml

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The stale workflow now requests write access, excludes draft pull requests from stale processing, and deletes branches when stale pull requests close.

Changes

Stale workflow behavior

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Stale workflow settings .github/workflows/stale.yml	The workflow requests contents: write permission. The actions/stale step exempts draft pull requests and enables branch deletion after closure.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~2 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to fcde1

The workflow exempts draft pull requests and can delete branches when stale pull requests close; no merge-blocking risk remains in the supplied current-head evidence.

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Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: draft pull requests are exempt from the stale workflow's automatic closure.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
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Inline comments:
In @.github/workflows/stale.yml:
- Line 41: Update the workflow permissions associated with actions/stale and
delete-branch so they include contents: write alongside the existing issues:
write and pull-requests: write permissions.

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• .github/workflows/stale.yml

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[kwit75]

Approving. The draft exemption is the right fix and it protects work-in-progress PRs from being closed out from under people.

One thing worth naming, since the title only mentions the draft exemption: this also turns on delete-branch: true, and adds contents: write to make that possible. So the bot will now delete the branch of any PR it closes as stale.

I checked before approving, and nothing is close to that: days-before-stale: 90 plus days-before-close: 14, no PR currently carries the stale label, and the oldest open PR was last updated 36 days ago. Closed-PR commits also stay reachable through the PR refs, so this is recoverable rather than destructive.

No objection, just making sure the branch deletion is on the record rather than arriving as a surprise later.