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Before: the shared PR Labeler ran on Dependabot pull requests too. Their titles start with chore(deps), so they got a chore label, and release-drafter filed them under Maintenance instead of Dependencies.

After: the labeler skips pull requests opened by dependabot[bot]. They keep only Dependabot's own labels (dependencies plus the ecosystem), so they land under Dependencies in the release notes.

How: one if: on the label_pr job. Every repository that calls this reusable workflow picks it up.

The major/minor/patch labels that Dependabot adds itself are handled separately: Dependabot skips them when the repository has a skip-release label, which now exists in commit-check and commit-check-action (the only repositories with those labels). An earlier commit here set explicit labels: in dependabot.yml; that does not stop the semver labels, so it was dropped.

- PR Labeler skips pull requests opened by Dependabot. Their titles start
  with chore(deps), so the autolabeler added chore on top of Dependabot's
  own dependencies and ecosystem labels.
- Dependabot here gets explicit labels; left to its defaults it also
  applies a major, minor or patch label when the repository has one.
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The Dependabot configuration adds the github_actions label. The PR labeling job now skips pull requests authored by dependabot[bot].

Changes: Dependabot PR labeling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Dependabot PR label handling
.github/dependabot.yml, .github/workflows/pr-labeler.yml
The Dependabot configuration adds the github_actions label. The label_pr job skips pull requests authored by dependabot[bot].

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to ce15f

Dependabot PRs can still receive major, minor, or patch labels, so the change does not fully meet its stated goal. Add automation to remove those labels before relying on this configuration.

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Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: preventing the chore label from being applied to Dependabot pull requests.
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Review comments at @.github/dependabot.yml:
- Around line 16-17: Update the Dependabot automation configuration so a
workflow removes major, minor, and patch labels from Dependabot pull requests;
do not rely on the labels option to suppress those release-drafter labels.

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Explicit labels do not stop Dependabot's semver labels, so the setting only
repeated the defaults. A skip-release label in the repositories that have
major, minor and patch labels handles that instead.
@shenxianpeng shenxianpeng changed the title chore: keep chore and semver labels off Dependabot pull requests chore: keep the chore label off Dependabot pull requests Oct 16, 2026
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