Checks kind clears the changeset gate itself instead of asking a maintainer

[mikeallisonJS]

Summary

First live run with renovate/ admitted to the checks kind (#655). Phoebe took #640 and #641, both devDependency bumps opened before the renovate.json label rule landed, and stopped at a comment asking a maintainer for skip-changeset. The prompt had no step for a gate, and the releasing doc said a maintainer applies the label.

 checks-prompt.md, step 4 (Fix)
+  a gate red for want of a file or label is cleared by
+  writing the file or `gh pr edit --add-label`, per the repo's docs
 AGENTS.md, "Every PR carries a changeset"
+  no consumer-visible change → apply skip-changeset yourself
+  Renovate: runtime `dependencies` → patch changeset; anything else → label
 docs/releasing.md
-  A maintainer labels those skip-changeset
+  Anyone whose token can write labels does, Phoebe included
+  Renovate never relabels an open PR, so pre-rule bumps arrive unlabelled

The gate's own failure text in changeset.yml still says "a maintainer can label it". I left the workflow file alone; it can follow in a maintainer-pushed commit.

Evidence

• Before: dogfood log, 2026-10-14

  [checks pr:641] I made no code change. The `changeset` check on PR #641 needs a maintainer to apply the `skip-changeset` label, so I left a PR comment asking for it.
  [checks pr:641] Checks fix for PR #641 produced no commits — leaving PR unchanged.
  

  After: vp test src/prompt.test.ts passes (23 tests); the dogfood tree is on this branch so the next checks unit on Update dependency vite-plus to v0.3.3 #640 or Update dependency @types/node to v24.19.2 #641 runs the new step live. Not yet observed at the time of opening.

Merge Danger

Door: two-way

Prose only. Revert the prompt line and the behaviour returns.

Blast Radius: consumers

prompts/checks-prompt.md ships in the package, so every consumer's checks agent gains the step. It acts only where the consumer's own docs name a file or label that satisfies a gate.

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