chore(ci): close failing or conflicted PRs sooner

[jdx]

Summary

• close inactive PRs after 7 days only when they have failing checks or merge conflicts
• include merge state in the PR closer query and close with the specific reason
• keep existing exclusions for @jdx-authored and keep-open PRs

Validation

• actionlint .github/workflows/pr-closer.yml
• git diff --check
• jq filter sample validation

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Note

Medium Risk
Automates PR closure based on CI/merge-state signals; a bug in the query or jq logic could incorrectly close active or recoverable PRs. Limited to GitHub Actions workflow changes but impacts contributor workflow.

Overview
Updates the pr-closer GitHub Actions workflow to close PRs much sooner (7 days inactivity), but only when they have failing checks and/or merge conflicts.

The workflow now queries mergeStateStatus and expanded check conclusions to generate a specific closure reason, skips “warn-only” states (e.g., cancelled checks/unknown merge state), increases the listing limit to 500, and adds concurrency plus additional read permissions (checks, statuses) to support the new filtering.

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Greptile Summary

This PR tightens the pr-closer GitHub Actions workflow to close stale PRs after roughly 7 days of inactivity (down from 30 days), but only when they carry failing checks or merge conflicts rather than closing all inactive PRs indiscriminately.

• Targeted closure logic: a jq filter now evaluates mergeStateStatus and statusCheckRollup, producing one of three close reasons (failing checks, merge conflicts, or both) and silently skipping PRs whose state is cancelled or unknown.
• Safer query and runtime: the --search flag consolidates author/label/draft exclusions into a single GitHub search expression; set -o pipefail surfaces upstream failures; || echo \"Warning: …\" prevents a single failing gh pr close from aborting the rest; workflow-level concurrency prevents overlapping runs.

Confidence Score: 5/5

Safe to merge — the change is confined to a scheduled GitHub Actions workflow with no runtime code, and the logic correctly guards against closing PRs in ambiguous states.

The jq filter correctly handles all relevant mergeStateStatus and statusCheckRollup values, skipping UNKNOWN/CANCELLED states conservatively. The shell pipeline is guarded with pipefail and per-iteration error tolerance. No unintentional closure paths were identified.

No files require special attention.

Important Files Changed

Filename	Overview
.github/workflows/pr-closer.yml	Rewrites the stale-PR closer to target PRs inactive for ~7 days only when they have failing checks or merge conflicts; adds concurrency control, narrowed search filters, per-reason close messages, and basic error tolerance.

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