ci: readiness bot labels problem/bot-not-ready instead of drafting

[Joibel]

See the pull request guide for details on each item.

• Ran make pre-commit -B (not applicable — only .github/ changes; ran the pr-readiness typecheck + unit tests instead)
• Signed-off commits with Conventional Commit messages
• PR title is a conventional commit message (it becomes the release notes entry)
• Unit or e2e tests cover the change
• For features: an associated issue and a feature description file (make feature-new)
• Opened as draft; will mark "Ready for review" once builds are green

Motivation

The readiness bot converts not-ready PRs to draft, which has caused ongoing trouble: draft state is shared with humans, so the bot needed per-SHA "draft at most once" memory to respect a human re-marking ready, it stranded green PRs invisibly in draft (#16556), #16691 proposed episode tracking to undraft safely, and #16639 documents that the draft mutation needs a dedicated GitHub App with an over-broad Contents: Read & write permission.

A label the bot owns outright has none of these problems, and the repo already has one made for the purpose: problem/bot-not-ready — "Readiness bot declares this as not ready, see comment by bot for why".

Modifications

• Blocking verdicts (covered check failure or non-compliant PR description) now apply the problem/bot-not-ready label instead of drafting; the label is removed automatically the moment the verdict is no longer blocking. The label simply mirrors the current verdict — no per-SHA memory, no episodes.
• The sticky comment's note about the label renders on every failing pass while the label is in force, not just the run that applied it (the draft note was keyed to "drafted this very run" and was rarely seen — see fix(ci): have the PR readiness bot undraft PRs it drafted #16691).
• Labelling works with the default Actions token under the job's existing pull-requests: write, so the app-token minting step, DRAFT_TOKEN, and the draftedSha state tracking are deleted. The readiness GitHub App and the PR_READINESS_APP_ID / PR_READINESS_APP_PRIVATE_KEY secrets can be decommissioned after this merges.
• Net −81 lines. Supersedes fix(ci): have the PR readiness bot undraft PRs it drafted #16691 and docs: correct the PR readiness app's required permissions #16639, which can both be closed.
• Follow-up for a maintainer: PRs the bot already drafted (e.g. feat: add OIDC logout support to Argo Server #16556) are not touched by this change and need a one-off manual "Ready for review".

Verification

tsc --noEmit clean and all 35 unit tests pass (npm test in .github/pr-readiness/); the decide tests are rewritten for the label semantics and the comment tests assert the label note. Verified problem/bot-not-ready exists in this repo with exactly that name, and that labelling PRs needs no permissions beyond the pull-requests: write the sticky comment already uses.

Documentation

.github/pr-readiness/README.md rewritten where it described drafting: label ownership semantics, the removed app/secrets, and a new maintenance note that renaming the repo label without updating NOT_READY_LABEL makes the add-labels API quietly recreate the old name. Header comments in pr-readiness.yaml updated.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Pull requests with blocking readiness issues now receive a pr-readiness-not-ready label instead of being converted to draft.
  • The label is automatically removed when checks pass and reapplied if issues remain.
  • Readiness comments now explain the label status and its automatic removal.

• Documentation

  • Updated workflow and maintenance guidance to describe label behavior and configuration.

• Bug Fixes

  • Label state is recalculated after each CI completion for more accurate status tracking.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Changes

PR readiness label synchronization

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Blocking decision and comment contracts .github/pr-readiness/types.ts, .github/pr-readiness/classify.ts, .github/pr-readiness/comment.ts, .github/pr-readiness/test/*	The decision result now exposes blocking instead of shouldDraft. Comment rendering now tracks labeled state and reports automatic label removal. Tests cover blocking verdicts and labeled comments.
Verdict-driven label synchronization .github/pr-readiness/main.ts	The workflow adds or removes pr-readiness-not-ready according to the blocking verdict. Dry runs report projected label state. Draft conversion and persisted draft state are removed.
Workflow configuration and maintenance guidance .github/workflows/pr-readiness.yaml, .github/pr-readiness/README.md	Draft-specific token handling and configuration are removed. Documentation describes label behavior, dry runs, permissions, and label recreation.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to e9ad4

The bot’s readiness label can fail to apply when the repository label is missing or renamed, leaving affected pull requests without the intended status indicator. The change is otherwise mergeable with explicit maintainer follow-up to correct the documented behavior.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant PRReadinessWorkflow
  participant decide
  participant GitHubIssuesAPI
  participant renderComment
  PRReadinessWorkflow->>decide: evaluate signals and template verdict
  decide-->>PRReadinessWorkflow: return blocking decision
  PRReadinessWorkflow->>GitHubIssuesAPI: add or remove not-ready label
  GitHubIssuesAPI-->>PRReadinessWorkflow: return label state or API error
  PRReadinessWorkflow->>renderComment: render labeled state
  renderComment-->>PRReadinessWorkflow: return sticky comment

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Suggested reviewers: isubasinghe, jessesuen, masonm

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 33.33% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 3 functions across 6 files. (2 skipped: 2 unsupported.)	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main change: the readiness bot applies a label instead of converting pull requests to draft.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description covers motivation, modifications, verification, documentation, AI usage, and required checklist items with sufficient detail.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Inline comments:
In @.github/pr-readiness/README.md:
- Line 57: Update the README guidance for NOT_READY_LABEL and the addLabels
behavior to state that a missing label causes the API to return 422, after which
the bot logs a warning and leaves the pull request unlabelled; remove the
inaccurate claim that the API recreates the label.

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• .github/pr-readiness/README.md
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• .github/pr-readiness/comment.ts
• .github/pr-readiness/main.ts
• .github/pr-readiness/test/classify.test.ts
• .github/pr-readiness/test/comment.test.ts
• .github/pr-readiness/types.ts
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