chore: tune .coderabbit.yaml to reduce review rate-limit hits

[getappz]

Summary

Repeated "CodeRabbit: Review rate limited" seen this session on PR #306 and #308. Current .coderabbit.yaml only set drafts: true — the opposite of CodeRabbit's own default (false), so draft PRs were burning review budget too.

Per CodeRabbit's own auto-review docs (docs.coderabbit.ai/configuration/auto-review), the highest-leverage lever for our specific pattern (small PRs, several fast-follow commits pushed within one session — fmt/clippy fixes, review-response commits) is auto_pause_after_reviewed_commits, which defaults to 5 and counts every incremental auto-review toward the same per-developer rate limit as a fresh PR review.

Changes

• drafts: false — reverted to CodeRabbit's default; draft PRs no longer auto-reviewed.
• auto_pause_after_reviewed_commits: 2 — pauses incremental auto-review after 2 reviewed commits on an active branch instead of 5. A fresh pass is still one @coderabbitai review comment away when actually wanted.
• ignore_title_keywords: ["WIP", "DO NOT MERGE", "[skip review]"] — no-cost opt-out for PRs explicitly marked not-ready.
• ignore_usernames for dependabot[bot]/renovate[bot]/github-actions[bot] — no-cost, doesn't affect any real PR in this repo today.

Deliberately did not go all the way to enabled: false + label-based opt-in — that fits teams where most PRs don't want review by default; this repo's PRs are almost all real, mergeable work that should keep getting reviewed automatically. The chosen levers target the actual observed pattern (rate limit hit on active branches with repeated small pushes) without adding a manual labeling step to every PR.

Test plan

• YAML parses correctly (yaml.safe_load)
• N/A — config-only change, no code/tests affected

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Chores
  • Updated automated review settings to skip draft pull requests.
  • Added automatic pausing after multiple reviewed commits.
  • Excluded pull requests with specified skip keywords and automated update accounts from review.

[coderabbitai]

Warning

Ignoring CodeRabbit configuration file changes. For security, only the configuration from the base branch is applied for open source repositories.

No actionable comments were generated in the recent review. 🎉

ℹ️ Recent review info

⚙️ Run configuration

Configuration used: Path: .coderabbit.yaml

Review profile: CHILL

Plan: Pro Plus

Run ID: d39f44e5-9a16-4dc1-929d-c9d727eff3f5

📥 Commits

Reviewing files that changed from the base of the PR and between 41acba6 and 0fdfa54.

📒 Files selected for processing (1)

• .coderabbit.yaml

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The auto-review configuration now skips draft pull requests, pauses after two reviewed commits, and excludes pull requests matching specified title keywords or automation usernames.

Changes

Auto-review configuration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Auto-review eligibility and pause rules .coderabbit.yaml	Disables draft pull request reviews, adds a two-commit pause threshold, and configures title-keyword and automation-account ignore filters.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main change: tuning .coderabbit.yaml to reduce CodeRabbit review rate-limit hits.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description covers the summary and test plan, and is mostly aligned with the template despite a missing Notes for reviewers section.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
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.

✨ Finishing Touches

🧪 Generate unit tests (beta)

• Create PR with unit tests
• Commit unit tests in branch task/315

Warning

There were issues while running some tools. Please review the errors and either fix the tool's configuration or disable the tool if it's a critical failure.

🔧 Checkov (3.3.8)

.coderabbit.yaml

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/checkov", line 2, in
from checkov.main import Checkov
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'checkov'

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