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fix(ci): respect exempt labels when closing stale items#26475

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Summary

Adds exemptQuery to the "Stale Close" step of the lifecycle manager to ensure that items marked with exempt labels (like 🔒 maintainer only and help wanted) are protected from being closed, even if they were previously marked as stale.

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Previously, the exemptQuery was correctly applied when marking inactive items as stale, preventing exempt items from being automatically marked as stale. However, the query used to close stale items was missing this check. This meant that if an item had both the stale and 🔒 maintainer only labels (e.g. if a maintainer manually added the exempt label later to save it), the item could still be closed. This PR brings the close logic into alignment with the stale logic.

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Review the source code change in .github/scripts/gemini-lifecycle-manager.cjs. The query for "Handle Stale Close" now includes ${exemptQuery}.

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  • Updated relevant documentation and README (if needed)
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This pull request improves the reliability of the stale item management process by ensuring that items marked with specific exempt labels are protected from being closed. By applying the existing exemption criteria to the closing step, the system prevents accidental closure of items that have been flagged as maintainer-only or otherwise exempt after being marked as stale.

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  • Exempt Label Support: Updated the stale item closing logic to incorporate the exempt query, ensuring items with protected labels are not automatically closed.
  • Consistency: Aligned the stale closing process with the existing stale marking logic to maintain consistent behavior across the lifecycle manager.
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This pull request updates the stale item closure logic in the GitHub lifecycle manager script to include an exemption query, ensuring that items with specific labels are protected from automatic closure. Feedback indicates that this exemption logic should be consistently applied to other closure paths in the script, specifically the 'No-Response' and 'PR Contribution Policy' steps, which currently lack this check.

// 3. Handle Stale Close (14 days with stale label)
await processItems(
`repo:${owner}/${repo} is:open label:"${STALE_LABEL}" updated:<${closeThreshold.toISOString()}`,
`repo:${owner}/${repo} is:open label:"${STALE_LABEL}" ${exemptQuery} updated:<${closeThreshold.toISOString()}`,
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While this change correctly protects stale items from being closed, the 'No-Response' closure logic (Step 1, line 110) and the 'PR Contribution Policy' closure logic (Step 4, line 217) still lack this exemptQuery check. To fully satisfy the PR's goal of protecting exempt items (such as those labeled security or pinned) from automatic closure, the same logic should be applied to all closure paths. Note that you will need to move the definition of exemptQuery (currently at line 133) to the top of the function to make it available for Step 1.

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LGTM

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@gundermanc gundermanc enabled auto-merge May 4, 2026 22:51
@gemini-cli gemini-cli Bot added the status/need-issue Pull requests that need to have an associated issue. label May 4, 2026
@gundermanc gundermanc added this pull request to the merge queue May 4, 2026
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@gundermanc gundermanc deleted the bot/fix-stale-close-exemption branch May 4, 2026 23:10
kimjune01 pushed a commit to kimjune01/gemini-cli-claude that referenced this pull request May 6, 2026
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