- Replace "three required checks (CI / fast-checks, CI / api, CI / harness)"
with the new gating surface: CI / fast-checks + CI / gate
- Note that CI / api and CI / harness are conditionally skipped on doc-only PRs
and gated via the always-running CI / gate aggregate
- Comment-only change; no job/step/env/trigger modified
- gate job needs [fast-checks, changes, api, harness] with if: always()
- gate fails (exit 1) when fast-checks != success
- gate accepts success OR skipped for api and harness, fails on any other result
- uses individual needs.X.result checks (not wildcard) — Gitea 1.26.2 bug #31007
- once merged, emits CI / gate commit-status required by Plan 03 branch-protection update
- insert changes job (dorny/paths-filter@v4) before fast-checks
- changes job: permissions pull-requests:read, outputs code, no checkout
- code filter lists positive patterns: **/*.ts, apps/**, pnpm-lock.yaml, Dockerfile, etc.
- api job: needs [changes] + if combined with needs.changes.outputs.code == 'true'
- harness job: same needs/if pattern as api
- services, env, and step bodies unchanged in both heavy jobs
- Fix MD040 (11 bare fences): add language tags (text/bash) across 7 files
- Fix MD031 (2 violations): add blank lines around fence in GETTING-STARTED.md
- Wire 'Markdown lint' step to fast-checks job (after Format check, before Typecheck)
- Reformat .markdownlint-cli2.jsonc per Prettier (trailing commas in JSONC)
- pnpm md:lint exits 0; pnpm format:check exits 0; gate can fail on bare fence (verified)
Lucas Berger