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Description

This PR fixes three issues:

  1. Recursive npm path filters — The pull_request.paths filter used root-only patterns (package.json, package-lock.json), so dependency review never triggered for nested npm projects like docs/docusaurus/package.json. Added **/ prefixes to align with the existing Python convention.

  2. Sparse-checkout cone mode compatibility — The gh-aw compiler hardcodes sparse-checkout-cone-mode: true, which rejects file-level glob patterns like **/requirements.txt. Replaced individual file globs in the checkout.sparse-checkout section with .github/skills/ to cover all Python dependency files without needing per-skill directory entries. The on.pull_request.paths triggers retain their ** globs since GitHub Actions path filters support glob syntax natively.

  3. Broken relative links in issue-triage agentissue-triage.agent.md used ../../instructions/ which resolves outside .github/. Corrected to ../instructions/ so the links resolve to .github/instructions/ as intended.

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Fixes #1254

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Code & Documentation:

  • Bug fix (non-breaking change fixing an issue)
  • New feature (non-breaking change adding functionality)
  • Breaking change (fix or feature causing existing functionality to change)
  • Documentation update

Infrastructure & Configuration:

  • GitHub Actions workflow
  • Linting configuration (markdown, PowerShell, etc.)
  • Security configuration
  • DevContainer configuration
  • Dependency update

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  • Reviewed contribution with prompt-builder agent and addressed all feedback
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  • Copilot skill (.github/skills/*/SKILL.md)

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  • Script/automation (.ps1, .sh, .py)
  • Other (please describe):

Testing

  • Automated validation: All lint checks pass including lint:md-links.
  • Diff-based assessment: Verified the pull_request.paths triggers add **/ prefixes to npm entries, the checkout.sparse-checkout section uses directory-only paths compatible with cone mode, and the agent relative links resolve correctly.
  • Workflow compilation: gh aw compile succeeds with 0 errors, 0 warnings.
  • Manual testing was not performed.

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Required Checks

  • Documentation is updated (if applicable) (N/A)
  • Files follow existing naming conventions
  • Changes are backwards compatible (if applicable)
  • Tests added for new functionality (if applicable) (N/A — workflow config change + link fix)

Required Automated Checks

  • Markdown linting: npm run lint:md
  • Spell checking: npm run spell-check
  • Frontmatter validation: npm run lint:frontmatter
  • Skill structure validation: npm run validate:skills
  • Link validation: npm run lint:md-links
  • PowerShell analysis: npm run lint:ps
  • Plugin freshness: npm run plugin:generate

Security Considerations

  • This PR does not contain any sensitive or NDA information
  • Any new dependencies have been reviewed for security issues (N/A)
  • Security-related scripts follow the principle of least privilege (N/A)

Additional Notes

The sparse-checkout cone mode incompatibility was causing the Dependabot PR Review / agent job to fail at the "Checkout repository" step with fatal: specify directories rather than patterns. This fix uses .github/skills/ as a single directory entry, which is future-proof — new skills are automatically included without workflow changes.

Note: also this PR surfaced an existing bug:

Pester CI failure: Get-DiffOutput test false-negative
Bug: The 'Returns array of diff lines' test in generate.Tests.ps1 calls Get-DiffOutput -ComparisonRef 'HEAD~1' against the real repo and asserts the result is non-empty. In CI, GitHub creates a merge commit at refs/pull/*/merge. Because .gitattributes defines merge=ours for *.lock.yml files, the merge commit inherits main's version of those files, collapsing the diff to zero. When the PR's substantive changes are primarily in lock files, git diff HEAD~1 returns empty, and the test fails with Expected a value, but got $null or empty.

Fix (commit 6113a35): The test now mocks git to return a deterministic 6-line diff, verifying the function correctly returns and counts the output. A new 'Executes without error against real repo' test covers real-git integration with Should -Not -Throw, which is resilient to empty diffs. This prevents false failures on any PR where merge=ours attributes suppress the visible diff.

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- update package.json path filter from root-only to **/package.json
- update package-lock.json path filter from root-only to **/package-lock.json

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- replace **/requirements.txt and **/pyproject.toml with .github/skills/
- gh-aw hardcodes sparse-checkout-cone-mode which rejects glob patterns
- recompile lock file to pick up the directory-based checkout

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@WilliamBerryiii WilliamBerryiii changed the title fix(workflows): add recursive glob prefixes to npm path filters in dependency-review fix(workflows): fix dependency-review path filters and sparse-checkout cone mode Apr 1, 2026
- fix ../../instructions/ to ../instructions/ for github-backlog-triage
- fix ../../instructions/ to ../instructions/ for community-interaction

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- mock git diff output in "Returns array of diff lines" for deterministic assertion
- add "Executes without error against real repo" as resilient integration check

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## Pre-Release 3.3.101

### ✨ Features

- add removed maturity tier and retire owasp-docker (#1444)
- add evaluation dataset creator (#1279)
- align RAI planner with guide, remove scoring, improve UX (#1287)
- add PSGallery staleness check and BOM cleanup (#1379)
- ISA-95 network planner agent (#1177)
- auto-generate collection.md with maturity filtering (#1316)
- add folder-consistency check and standardize WARN outp… (#1350)
- add synth-data-generate prompt to data-science collection (#1419)
- add canonical deck workflow and customer-card rendering for design
thinking (#1413)
- add Figma MCP integration for DT artifact export (#1222)
- introduce `owasp-docker` (#1245)
- replace hve-core-specific references with portable discovery-based
language (#1335)
- introduce `owasp-cicd` (#1246)
- add secure-by-design knowledge skill (#1223)
- introduce `owasp-infrastructure` (#1244)
- introduce `owasp-mcp` (#1207)
- add OutputPath parameter to Invoke-LinkLanguageCheck.ps1 (#1229)
- add -OutputPath parameter to Validate-SkillStructure.ps1 (#1225)
- add maintainer-only skip-review label guard (#1293)
- add extension collections overview and integrate into getting started
flow (#950)
- add agentic workflows for automated issue triage, implementation, PR
review, dependency review, and doc-staleness detection (#1219)
- consolidate package-lock.json version sync into
Update-VersionFiles.ps1 (#1240)
- add standards code review agent and full review orchestrator (#1174)
- standardize pytest-mock as Python mocking framework (#1170)
- add Jira backlog workflows and Jira/GitLab skills (#978)
- add centralized version bump script and supply-chain attestation
(#1183)

### 🐛 Bug Fixes

- pin PowerShell-Yaml to 0.4.7 across all install sites (#1378)
- close fork-PR/workflow-file-PR secret-strip gap and normalize
upload-artifact version (#1421)
- replace stream-based lookahead with array indexing in
list-changed-files.sh (#1376)
- centralize ISO 8601 timestamp regex in CIHelpers (#1343)
- update stale documentation date in release-process.md (#1363)
- pin basic-ftp to 5.3.0 to resolve GHSA-rp42-5vxx-qpwr (#1374)
- add bot filter to dependency PR review workflow (#1362)
- resolve pip-audit findings in powerpoint, gitlab, and jira skill lock
files (#1360)
- standardize Timestamp JSON key casing across all lint result files
(#1314)
- add synchronize trigger to PR Review workflow (#1323)
- standardize timestamp in Validate-SkillStructure.ps1 to use
Get-StandardTimestamp (#1280)
- add parallel subagent dispatch and structured JSON contracts to
code-review-full (#1304)
- standardize timestamp in SecurityHelpers.psm1 to use
Get-StandardTimestamp (#1284)
- standardize timestamps in Test-DependencyPinning.ps1 and
SecurityClasses.psm1 (#1282)
- derive collection artifact counts from YAML at build time (#1275)
- standardize timestamp in FrontmatterValidation.psm1 to use
Get-StandardTimestamp (#1285)
- standardize timestamp in Markdown-Link-Check.ps1 to use
Get-StandardTimestamp (#1283)
- escape hyphens in Mermaid diagram on Collections page (#1262)
- add summary timestamp to PSScriptAnalyzer output (#1211)
- fix plugin compatibility and robustness for coding-standards code
review agents (#1289)
- standardize timestamp in Test-CopyrightHeaders.ps1 to use
Get-StandardTimestamp (#1278)
- standardize timestamp in Invoke-YamlLint.ps1 to use
Get-StandardTimestamp (#1270)
- standardize timestamp in Invoke-LinkLanguageCheck.ps1 to use
Get-StandardTimestamp (#1264)
- fix dependency-review path filters and sparse-checkout cone mode
(#1259)
- replace invalid bare tool names with official tool identifiers (#1198)
- fix broken links and remove orphaned reference in code review docs
(#1257)
- exclude Python env dirs from skill validation warnings (#1255)
- pin happy-dom and serialize-javascript to resolve Dependabot
vulnerabilities (#1253)
- remove Mermaid diagram and add missing collection cards (#1247)
- disable MCP servers by default to prevent token limit errors (#1144)
- sync package-lock.json after pre-release version bump (#1236)
- separate mermaid node declarations and add dynamic diagram generation
with tests (#1215)
- replace anchor links in meeting-analyst with bold text references
(#1201)
- remove recursive symlinks in jira and gitlab skill directories (#1233)
- validate-installation scripts now check .github/skills directory
(#1010) (#1206)
- resolve npm audit vulnerabilities via dependency overrides (#1200)
- add post-release triggers to scorecard workflow (#1186)
- add missing .md extensions to relative links in agent documentation
(#1180)

### 📚 Documentation

- broaden Security Review description beyond OWASP (#1385)
- document maintainer advisory mode and skip-review label guard (#1386)
- document ExcludePaths/OutputPath for Invoke-LinkLanguageCheck (#1383)
- CLI getting-started: clarify plugin install commands as alternatives
(-all vs base) (#1251)

### ♻️ Refactoring

- align agent and prompt folder names to collection identifier (#1210)

### 🔧 Maintenance

- pin PSScriptAnalyzer to 1.25.0 and sync stale workflow version
comments (#1389)
- bump lxml from 6.0.2 to 6.1.0 in
/.github/skills/experimental/powerpoint (#1424)
- bump @vscode/vsce from 3.7.1 to 3.9.1 in the npm-dependencies group
(#1390)
- bump the github-actions group across 1 directory with 7 updates
(#1391)
- bump follow-redirects from 1.15.11 to 1.16.0 in /docs/docusaurus
(#1356)
- upgrade Node.js from 20 to 24 and bump cspell to v10 (#1353)
- bump basic-ftp from 5.2.0 to 5.2.1 (#1324)
- update github/gh-aw-actions requirement to
536ea1bad8c6715d098a9dc1afea8d403733acfe in the github-actions group
across 1 directory (#1298)
- update security instruction attributions and compliance (#1294)
- bump the npm-dependencies group with 2 updates (#1297)
- pre-release 3.3.41 (#1252)
- streamline RAI Planner phase structure and documentation (#1273)
- bump happy-dom from 20.8.8 to 20.8.9 in /docs/docusaurus (#1237)
- pre-release 3.3.27 (#1191)
- bump pygments from 2.19.2 to 2.20.0 in /.github/skills/gitlab/gitlab
(#1234)
- bump path-to-regexp from 0.1.12 to 0.1.13 in /docs/docusaurus (#1226)
- bump the github-actions group with 4 updates (#1231)
- add missing folders and alphabetize location lists (#1193)
- bump brace-expansion (#1224)
- bump handlebars from 4.7.8 to 4.7.9 in /docs/docusaurus (#1217)
- bump brace-expansion from 5.0.3 to 5.0.5 in /docs/docusaurus (#1213)
- pre-release 3.3.10 (#1187)
- bump markdownlint-cli2 from 0.21.0 to 0.22.0 in the npm-dependencies
group (#1175)
- bump the github-actions group with 3 updates (#1176)
- pre-release 3.3.1 (#1165)

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