Tighten Dependabot Exclude-Patterns Rationale Comment

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Qodo flagged the 4-line rationale comment added in #1062 as an elaborative prose block, against
the fleet's "one line is the default, a second line is earned only by a constraint the code
cannot otherwise carry" comment rule (found on the #1063 promotion PR, whose diff doesn't allow
a direct fix, hence this separate feature PR).

Trims it to the two sentences that carry the non-obvious why, dropping the lines that restated
what the code already shows.

Verification

• scripts/prose_lint.py catalog/snippets/configs/dependabot.yml — clean.
• scripts/repo_gate.py — clean.
• YAML syntax check — valid.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Clarified Dependabot configuration comments about toolchain exclusions and version updates.
  • Documented how tool version changes may affect existing code and grouped updates.

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PR Summary by Qodo

Condense Dependabot Exclusion Rationale

📝 Documentation🕐 Less than 5 minutes

AI Description

• Condenses the Dependabot exclusion rationale from four lines to two.
• Retains why toolchain bumps remain separate while removing configuration restatements.

High-Level Assessment

The concise comment is the appropriate approach: it preserves the non-obvious grouping risk while removing prose already expressed by the configuration. Moving the rationale elsewhere would reduce discoverability without improving maintainability.

Files changed (1) +2 / -4

Documentation (1) +2 / -4

dependabot.ymlShorten the toolchain exclusion rationale+2/-4

Shorten the toolchain exclusion rationale

• Replaces a four-line Dependabot comment with two focused sentences. The revised rationale preserves why toolchain packages are excluded from grouped dependency bumps without restating visible configuration behavior.

catalog/snippets/configs/dependabot.yml

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The Dependabot configuration comments were shortened and revised. They now describe catch-all exclusions and explain how tool version changes can affect compliant code and grouped updates. No configuration behavior changed.

Changes

Dependabot documentation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Clarify exclusion comments catalog/snippets/configs/dependabot.yml	The comments now describe catch-all exclusions and the impact of tool version changes on compliant code and grouped updates.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~2 minutes

Merge Risk:⚪ Minimal · up to b11be

This PR only shortens an explanatory comment in the Dependabot configuration without changing behavior or runtime settings; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 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: tightening the rationale comment for Dependabot exclude patterns.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
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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