dependabot-rollup: add opt-in approve and auto-merge for individually safe updates

Context

PR #36589 added the assign-prs skill. Its first revision also classified, approved and merged individually safe Dependabot PRs. That workstream was removed in review — assign-prs is now assignment-only, and dependency updates belong to dependabot-rollup.

dependabot-rollup today combines compatible updates into a rollup branch and opens a draft PR, explicitly leaving the original PRs untouched. This issue tracks adding the removed capability there instead, as an opt-in: approve and merge Dependabot PRs that are individually safe, without building a rollup.

This is deliberately conservative — the cost of a wrong merge is far higher than the cost of leaving a PR for a human.

Safety conditions

A PR is safe only when all of these hold. Default to unsafe.

1. Author is Dependabot. The two APIs spell this differently: search/issues returns dependabot[bot], gh pr view --json author returns app/dependabot. Comparing the gh pr view value against dependabot[bot] marks every Dependabot PR unsafe and yields an empty safe list — a bug that looks like a conservative result. Match either spelling.
2. Patch or minor only. Parse bump <dep> from <version> to <version>, stripping any chore(deps): / chore(deps-dev): prefix. Target major must equal source major. Exclude anything unparseable rather than guessing.
3. Non-empty diff. changedFiles > 0. A bump followed by a corrective commit can net to zero changed files against the base, which passes every other rule here — including "no workflow files touched", trivially true when no files are touched. Close such a PR instead; Dependabot re-raises it if it still applies.
4. No workflow files touched. Anything under .github/workflows/** is out of scope regardless of semver: it alters CI execution and is a supply-chain surface.
5. Every check affirmatively passed. See below — this is the subtle one.
6. Cleanly mergeable. mergeable == MERGEABLE. Exclude CONFLICTING and DIRTY. UNKNOWN means GitHub hasn't finished computing merge state: re-poll once, then exclude.

The check-verification trap

Credit to @paolo-aliprandi, who caught this in review of #36589 (comment).

The original rule was a negative list: reject any entry in statusCheckRollup whose conclusion is FAILURE, TIMED_OUT, CANCELLED or ACTION_REQUIRED. That does not establish that anything passed:

• an empty statusCheckRollup satisfies it vacuously;
• a rollup containing only neutral or skipped conclusions also satisfies it.

Once the skill adds its own approval, gh pr merge --auto will then merge as soon as nothing blocks — so a PR with no checks at all is the easiest one to auto-merge, which is exactly backwards.

Any implementation must instead:

• require a non-empty rollup;
• affirmatively verify that every relevant check concluded SUCCESS;
• treat neutral/skipped as unproven, not passing;
• treat still-running checks as not-yet-safe and re-check later rather than merging optimistically;
• re-verify immediately before merging, since status changes between planning and execution.

Note that mergeStateStatus == BLOCKED on its own is expected and is not a disqualifier — it usually means only that the required approval hasn't been given yet, which is the approval being added.

Guardrails to carry over

• Dry-run and explicit approval before approving or merging anything.
• Never approve or merge a PR not authored by Dependabot.
• Never merge a semver-major update, or any PR touching .github/workflows/**.
• Never bypass branch protection or use an administrator merge override.
• Never merge with a failing, cancelled, timed-out, or still-running required check.

Start by locating the dependabot-rollup skill and compare it with the assignment-only assign-prs work from PR #36589. Read the search/issues and gh pr view data paths, including statusCheckRollup, mergeable, changedFiles, and workflow-file detection. Done means opt-in dry-run and approval guardrails safely approve and auto-merge only individually safe Dependabot updates after checks are re-verified.