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[infra] Dependabot digest: migrate to GitHub App auth (blocked on human install step) #149

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What this is

The digest workflow itself shipped and works (#130, merged 2026-09-12). What's blocked is moving it off three fine-grained PATs onto a single GitHub App install, because a fine-grained PAT has no Checks permission at all (community#129512) — it silently nulls every CheckRun on a private repo rather than erroring, which can turn failing builds into "nothing failing."

Plan: docs/plans/2026-09-11-dependabot-digest-github-app.md. The migration is workflow-only; no digest script changes.

Blocker

Installing a GitHub App on all three owners is a human-only step (only an account owner can do it — see the org-migration finding in docs/STATUS.md: "GitHub App installations do not follow repo transfers" and cannot be done by an Action).

Related, separate decision

dev-env#120 (soak-then-accept: auto-merge majors after a week of green CI) stays open until a real run exists to link from its closing comment — not blocked on this migration, but adjacent.

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