fix: skip review on workflow-self-modification PRs (v2.0.1)

[twistedmelonman]

Summary

Adds a PRIORITY SKIP case to the Check for doc-only diff step: if the PR modifies any .github/workflows/*.yml file, short-circuit with VERDICT: SKIPPED (workflow-self-modification).

Why

The anthropics/claude-code-action@v1 refuses to run on PRs that modify any workflow file in the caller repo (security feature — prevents a PR from modifying the reviewer to hide issues). The action currently exits non-zero after a 30s retry loop, which our Check review verdict step interprets as "exceeded turn limit" and fails the job.

Observed in the v1 → v2 rollout:

• PR #1176 (kebab-tax), MISSING install branch name lacks version suffix, blocks reruns when an install PR is stuck open #70 (dotfiles), Escape-hatch grep pattern does not match documented format #40 (mac-dev-server-setup) — all three bellwethers hit this, required manual bypass markers to merge.

Blocks the Dependabot-driven update pattern the user wants to adopt next: Dependabot PRs would need a bypass marker on every auto-generated PR. Not sustainable.

What changes

New logic in claude-blocking-review.yml line ~157, before the existing doc-only check:

while IFS= read -r f; do
  [ -z "$f" ] && continue
  case "$f" in
    .github/workflows/*.yml|.github/workflows/*.yaml)
      echo "::notice::PR modifies .github/workflows/ ($f) — claude-code-action refuses to run by design..."
      echo "skip=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
      echo "## Claude Code Review" >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
      echo "**Verdict:** SKIPPED (workflow-self-modification)" >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
      exit 0
      ;;
  esac
done <<< "$FILES"

Uses the same file-list enumeration the doc-only check already does (UNION of previous_filename and filename).

Not a security regression

• The claude-code-action already cannot review such PRs. We're accommodating its security feature, not defeating it.
• Humans remain responsible for reviewing workflow changes manually.
• A malicious workflow change would skip the review under both v2.0.0 and v2.0.1 — the failure mode is unchanged, only the verdict cleanliness differs.

Migration

• Floating-tag pinners (@v2): picked up automatically once v2 tag advances.
• Specific-tag pinners (@v2.0.0): bump to @v2.0.1 to get the fix.

This PR enables the planned rollout of Dependabot + @v2.0.1 specific pins across the 27 consumer repos.

Test plan

• Local pre-commit + pre-push reviewers PASS
• Match logic manually verified against simulated file lists
• Dogfood: this PR itself touches .github/workflows/claude-blocking-review.yml — the self-review caller (self-review.yml) is unchanged, so the workflow-validation-skip should NOT fire and this PR should get a normal review (confirming the narrow-fix scope)

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