feat(eval): offline eval suite for orchestration/reranker (Recall@K/MRR + DeepEval + live deploy gate)

.dockerignore

@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@ node_modules
 **/node_modules
 .venv
 **/.venv
+.notebooklm-cli-venv/
+.notebooklm-playwright/
+.pip-cache/
+.uv-cache/
 
 # Built artifacts that are regenerated inside the image.  Excluded so local
 # rebuilds on the developer's machine don't invalidate the npm-install layer
@@ -25,6 +29,8 @@ ui-tui/packages/hermes-ink/dist/
 
 # Runtime data (bind-mounted at /opt/data; must not leak into build context)
 data/
+.hermes-docker/
+.notebooklm-home/
 
 # Compose/profile runtime state (bind-mounted; avoid ownership/secret issues)
 hermes-config/

.github/workflows/contributor-check.yml

@@ -3,11 +3,9 @@ name: Contributor Attribution Check
 on:
   pull_request:
     branches: [main]
-    paths:
-      # Only run when code files change (not docs-only PRs)
-      - '*.py'
-      - '**/*.py'
-      - '.github/workflows/contributor-check.yml'
+  # No paths filter — the job must always run so the required check
+  # reports a status (path-gated workflows leave checks "pending" forever
+  # when no matching files change, which blocks merge).
 
 permissions:
   contents: read
@@ -20,7 +18,21 @@ jobs:
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0  # Full history needed for git log
 
+      - name: Check if relevant files changed
+        id: filter
+        run: |
+          BASE="${{ github.event.pull_request.base.sha }}"
+          HEAD="${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}"
+          CHANGED=$(git diff --name-only "$BASE"..."$HEAD" -- '*.py' '**/*.py' '.github/workflows/contributor-check.yml' || true)
+          if [ -n "$CHANGED" ]; then
+            echo "run=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          else
+            echo "run=false" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+            echo "No Python files changed, skipping attribution check."
+          fi
+
       - name: Check for unmapped contributor emails
+        if: steps.filter.outputs.run == 'true'
         run: |
           # Get the merge base between this PR and main
           MERGE_BASE=$(git merge-base origin/main HEAD)

.github/workflows/deploy-site.yml

@@ -22,7 +22,12 @@ concurrency:
 
 jobs:
   deploy-vercel:
-    if: github.event_name == 'release'
+    # Triggered automatically on release publish (production cuts) and
+    # manually via `gh workflow run deploy-site.yml` when an out-of-band
+    # main commit needs to ship live before the next release tag — e.g.
+    # a skills-index PR that doesn't touch website/** paths and so
+    # doesn't auto-deploy via the deploy-docs path.
+    if: github.event_name == 'release' || github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch'
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - name: Trigger Vercel Deploy