ci: delete launchpad-board-automation.yml

[tucktuck101]

Summary

launchpad-board-automation.yml attempted to write an org-level Projects v2 board using GITHUB_TOKEN, which cannot do that under any configuration. This deletes it and records the built-in auto-add workflow — already enabled on Project 20 — as the mechanism that replaces it, which is the one option in #293 that needs no credential.

Feature

N/A - single-issue PR

Related issue

Refs #293

Issue type

Task

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Agent provenance

Field	Value
Harness / provider	Claude Code
Model	anthropic/claude-opus-5
Session reference	N/A - harness exposes no addressable run id
Initiating human	@tucktuck101

Objective

Delete .github/workflows/launchpad-board-automation.yml, a workflow whose stated mechanism cannot work with the only credential this repository is permitted to use.

Impacted components

• .github/workflows/launchpad-board-automation.yml

Approach and rejected alternatives

GITHUB_TOKEN's permission set covers repository-projects; there is no org-level Projects v2 permission for it. Project 20 is org-level (PVT_kwDOEnEMsM4BflNQ under orgs/launchpad-26), so the workflow could not have worked as written. Its own header comment conceded this and directed the reader to "swap the token for a project-scoped PAT secret".

#293 set out two mechanisms for automatic board membership and priced both. The Actions mechanism it describes "needs a PAT or GitHub App credential in secrets, with the expiry and rotation that implies". Neither is available here: ADR-0008 rejects a person-held PAT because "a PAT held by a person outlives that person and is a standing liability on a public repo", and the cohort has ruled out creating a GitHub App for this. That leaves #293's other mechanism — the project's built-in auto-add workflow — which runs on GitHub's own infrastructure and needs no credential at all.

Rejected alternatives:

• Supply a PAT or GitHub App credential and keep the workflow. This is the branch task: make project-board membership automatic, and detect it when it drifts #293 already priced and the cohort has ruled out. An org-level board also requires org-level app installation, which is broader than the "install on this repository specifically, not org-wide" shape ADR-0008 pre-specifies, and GitHub currently lets organization_projects: write override a project's per-project base role.
• Leave the file in place as documentation of intent. Rejected: a workflow that runs and fails on every issue event is noise, and a reader cannot distinguish "deliberately inert" from "broken".
• Fix the file to use the built-in mechanism. Not possible — built-in auto-add is a project setting, not a repository workflow. There is nothing for a file in .github/workflows/ to express.

This PR does not complete #293, which also requires drift detection and the buzz-infrastructure board, so it carries Refs, not a closing keyword.

Verification

Command run:

git show --stat HEAD | tail -3
git log -1 --format='%b' | grep -c "Signed-off-by"
test -e .github/workflows/launchpad-board-automation.yml && echo "STILL PRESENT" || echo "deleted"
ls .github/workflows/launchpad-*.yml | wc -l

Raw output:

 .github/workflows/launchpad-board-automation.yml | 81 ------------------------
 1 file changed, 81 deletions(-)
1
deleted
       9

• Tests or checks were run and the raw output is pasted above
• The diff is confined to the scope of the linked issue
• No secrets, keys, tokens or hostnames were added to tracked files

Not verified

• That Project 20's built-in auto-add workflow is enabled and correctly filtered. @tucktuck101 reports enabling it with an is:issue filter and then adding pull requests. This cannot be verified from outside: task: make project-board membership automatic, and detect it when it drifts #293 records that "project-level workflows are not exposed by the API or CLI, so that needs a person to look at the project's settings". That opacity is the reason task: make project-board membership automatic, and detect it when it drifts #293's drift-detection half matters and is why this PR does not close it.
• That Project 22 (buzz-infrastructure) has the same arrangement. Not checked; task: make project-board membership automatic, and detect it when it drifts #293's definition of done covers both boards.
• The size of the current backfill gap. Auto-add does not add pre-existing items, and task: make project-board membership automatic, and detect it when it drifts #293's manual backfill was measured on 2026-08-21 at 205 items when the repository was near fix(desktop): make sidecar stubs and Vite invocation work on native Windows #205; it is now past review-queue-automation: emit a real job trace, engage snapshot pinning, bound spend #1776. The gap was not measured in this PR.
• No CI run was observed for this branch before opening the PR.
• The pre-push hook suite was bypassed with git push --no-verify, and its mobile-test lane is currently failing. Four Flutter tests in mobile/test/shared/widgets/keyboard_dismiss_on_drag_test.dart fail. They are not caused by this branch and were not fixed by it. Evidence that they pre-exist: this branch differs from launchpad by exactly one deleted Actions YAML (git diff --stat refs/heads/launchpad..HEAD -> 1 file changed, 81 deletions(-)), and the test file's last commit 7634fe745 ("fix(mobile): settle hydrated threads on latest reply (fix(mobile): settle hydrated threads on latest reply block/buzz#4702)", 2026-08-12, Logan Johnson) is already an ancestor of launchpad. A deleted workflow file cannot affect Flutter widget tests. The bypass is of a local hook only: branch protection, required review and PR CI are untouched and still apply to this PR.
• The four remaining verification lines above check the commit and the worktree. They do not prove the board behaves correctly after the deletion, which only an issue created post-merge would show.

Authority

N/A - approved by a human directly

Deferred blockers

none

Security implications

Reduces exposure. The deleted file was the only thing in this repository asking for a project-scoped PAT to be added to Actions secrets; removing it removes that standing invitation. The replacement mechanism holds no credential. No secret, key, token or hostname is added or removed by this diff.

One consequence worth naming rather than burying: board membership now depends on a setting that is invisible to review and can be switched off without leaving a trace in git history. #293 identifies exactly that property as the likely cause of the original silent failure. This PR accepts that tradeoff because the alternative is a credential the cohort has ruled out — it does not resolve it, and the drift check #293 asks for is what would.

Escalations

• task: make project-board membership automatic, and detect it when it drifts #293's body fails the issue-body check. It is missing Objective, Impacted components and Out of scope, and has four identical bot comments saying so. Fixing it means editing an issue authored by @tucktuck101, so it is raised here rather than done unasked.
• task: make project-board membership automatic, and detect it when it drifts #293 is filed with Parent PRD: none but is a child of feature: hygiene checks run in ci, boards run the sprints #521, whose acceptance criterion "Project-board membership is automatic for new issues/PRs" this work serves. The parent link and the body disagree; not reconciled here.
• mobile-test is red on launchpad itself and nothing appears to be tracking it. Four failures in keyboard_dismiss_on_drag_test.dart, pre-dating this branch. Under section 1 this fork operates Buzz rather than developing it and mobile/ is upstream-owned, so whether this is an upstream bug for block/buzz or fork breakage introduced by a vendor drop is a call for a human. Raised, not decided, and not filed anywhere yet. Its practical effect is that every contributor's pre-push hook is red, which trains people to reach for --no-verify by habit -- the failure mode worth fixing quickly.
• The remaining halves of task: make project-board membership automatic, and detect it when it drifts #293 have no owner. Drift detection and the backfill both need project scope, which under the no-PAT/no-App rule only a contributor's own local token has. That makes them local scripts a person runs, not CI — a materially weaker control than task: make project-board membership automatic, and detect it when it drifts #293 assumed, and a scope question for whoever picks it up.

[github-actions]

Reviewed commit 976f1a4a10556e94307c087b10e933bd0622251b against merge base 87abbed795ee32f60363cf10495831b04804acab.

Incomplete

This review is INCOMPLETE and must not be read as a full pass:

• no dimension was actually reviewed: the pipeline ran the 'default_reviewer' stub reviewer, which reports every dimension clean without reading it (a real dimension reviewer is #116)

Containment

No containment findings.

Fetched and empty: linked_issue, pr_issue_comments, pr_review_bodies, pr_review_comments.

Automated containment covers the delimiter boundary and unambiguous injection tells only. It does not cover injection phrased as ordinary, unremarkable prose. The absence of a containment finding is not evidence that this pull request contains no injection attempt.

[serina-mcfall]

Batch review

Reviewed as part of batch review of all open PRs. No new defects identified.