fix(skills): exclude docs from risky-code gate

[apurvvkumaria]

Summary

The maintainer merge gate treated public documentation paths containing inference or policy as risky production code and rejected documentation-only pull requests without code tests. This change excludes the public documentation roots from that classifier while keeping production inference paths and the gate checker protected.

Changes

• Exclude docs/ and fern/ paths before applying the risky-code patterns.
• Add regression coverage for inference and policy documentation paths.
• Prove that inference source changes without tests still fail the risky-code gate.

Type of Change

• Code change (feature, bug fix, or refactor)
• Code change with doc updates
• Doc only (prose changes, no code sample modifications)
• Doc only (includes code sample changes)

Quality Gates

• Tests added or updated for changed behavior
• Existing tests cover changed behavior — justification:
• Tests not applicable — justification:
• Sensitive paths changed (security, policy, credentials, preflight, onboarding, inference, runner, sandbox, or messaging)
• Sensitive-path review completed or maintainer-approved waiver recorded — reviewer/approval link/justification: Maintainer security review passed. The change only narrows classification for public documentation roots. It does not change runtime behavior, credentials, network access, policy enforcement, or CI result validation. Production inference paths and the gate checker remain classified as risky.
• Non-success, skipped, or missing CI check accepted by maintainer — check name, approval link, and follow-up issue:

DGX Station Hardware Evidence

• Tested on DGX Station
• Tested commit: Not applicable; scripts/prepare-dgx-station-host.sh is unchanged.
• Station profile/scenario: Not applicable.
• Result: Not applicable.
• Supporting evidence: Not applicable.

Verification

• PR description includes a Signed-off-by: line and every commit appears as Verified in GitHub
• Normal pre-commit, commit-msg, and pre-push hooks passed, or npm run validate:pr passed after refreshing origin/main when hooks were skipped or unavailable
• Targeted behavior tests pass for the current change set, or tests are marked not applicable above — npx vitest run --project integration test/skills/check-gates-compliance.test.ts passed all 44 tests after the final hook run.
• Applicable broad gate passed — Not applicable to this focused two-file classifier correction; the focused merge-gate suite and normal hooks cover the changed behavior.
• Quality Gates section completed with required justifications or waivers
• No secrets, API keys, or credentials committed
• npm run docs builds without warnings (doc changes only)
• Doc pages follow the style guide (doc changes only)
• New doc pages include SPDX header and frontmatter (new pages only)

Documentation Review

No documentation change is needed. This corrects an internal maintainer classifier and does not change supported product behavior or public guidance. The existing risky-area guidance remains accurate.

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Signed-off-by: Apurv Kumaria akumaria@nvidia.com

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Documentation and related asset updates are no longer incorrectly flagged as risky code changes.
  • Risk assessment now distinguishes documentation updates from inference provider source changes, ensuring the appropriate compliance checks are applied.

• Tests

  • Added coverage confirming accurate compliance results, gate status, and risky-file details for documentation and inference-related changes.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The risky-file check now excludes docs/ and fern/ paths. Compliance tests verify that documentation changes pass without risky-code tests, while inference provider changes remain classified as risky.

Changes

Risky-file gate classification

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Documentation exclusion and compliance coverage .agents/skills/nemoclaw-maintainer-day/scripts/shared.ts, test/skills/check-gates-compliance.test.ts	isRiskyFile excludes docs/ and fern/ paths. Tests verify documentation paths as non-risky and src/lib/inference/provider.ts as risky.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~5–15 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 9831b

This narrowly corrects risky-code classification for public documentation while preserving checks for production inference paths; it does not change runtime product behavior, and no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

Suggested reviewers: aasthajh

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 2 functions across 2 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: excluding documentation paths from the risky-code gate.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Code Coverage Overview

Languages: TypeScript

TypeScript / code-coverage/plugin

The overall line coverage in commit bb43678 in the codex/fix-docs-risky... branch remains at 96%, unchanged from commit 2bf5a9b in the main branch.

TypeScript / code-coverage/cli

The overall line coverage in commit bb43678 in the codex/fix-docs-risky... branch remains at 83%, unchanged from commit 2bf5a9b in the main branch.

Show a line coverage summary of the most impacted files.

File	main 2bf5a9b	codex/fix-docs-risky... bb43678	+/-
src/lib/state/h...tall/journal.ts	84%	68%	-16%
src/lib/actions...ild-pipeline.ts	90%	88%	-2%
src/lib/onboard...tp-readiness.ts	100%	98%	-2%
src/lib/actions...light-guards.ts	88%	87%	-1%
src/lib/actions...estore-phase.ts	90%	89%	-1%
src/lib/onboard...eway-service.ts	83%	83%	0%
src/lib/onboard...uild-context.ts	86%	86%	0%
src/lib/adapter...ateway-drift.ts	60%	61%	+1%
src/lib/onboard...nt-authority.ts	82%	85%	+3%
src/lib/onboard...file-builder.ts	91%	95%	+4%

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_{Updated August 23, 2026 03:57 UTC}

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Inline comments:
In `@test/skills/check-gates-compliance.test.ts`:
- Around line 14-17: Add a regression fixture to the file list in the
check-gates compliance test using a fern/ path under inference or policy, and
retain the existing riskyCodeTested assertion as the behavioral verification.
Keep the test focused on the exclusion behavior without asserting implementation
details.

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[cv]

Approved at exact commit 9831b35. This bounded maintainer-classifier correction follows the accepted #9934 follow-up. DCO, GitHub verification, correctness, security, focused regression tests, automated review, and the complete resolved review thread pass.

[apurvvkumaria]

CI Blocker

The current full CI run passed every non-shard gate and shards 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, and 11. Shards 1, 2, 5, 7, and 12 reached the repository’s 15-minute job limit and were canceled.

The same five-shard pattern also blocked PRs #9862, #9864, and #9947. That cross-PR result classifies this as the current shard distribution, not a regression in this PR’s two-file skills change.

PR #9950 contains the targeted shard rebalance and is validating the new layout. I am not broadly rerunning the unchanged layout. This PR remains deferred until a fresh required checks result passes.