Addresses review feedback on #1041.
The gate now reads GitHub's resolved closing references
(closingIssuesReferences) instead of regex-parsing the pull request body,
so an issue linked through the sidebar Development panel counts, and a
bare `#123` mention no longer does.
It also no longer closes on the pull request event. It labels and
explains; pr-sweeper.yml re-checks every six hours and closes only what is
still failing 72 hours after the notice. That re-check is load-bearing:
linking an issue via the sidebar fires no webhook, so an event-only gate
could never observe a contributor complying that way. The sweeper also
closes drafts from outside the org after 30 days.
The shared check lives in .github/scripts/issue-gate.js so both workflows
run identical logic, with a dependency-free self-check wired into static
analysis. Its one regression guard: author_association CONTRIBUTOR stays
gated, since GitHub assigns it to anyone who has previously committed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Vineeth Voruganti