[hivecommons-hive]

Test Improvement

Adds __tests__/plugins/approveGuards.test.ts: eleven cases pinning guards of src/plugins/approve.ts that line coverage already reaches but no existing test would notice changing. No production code changes.

Evidence: npx stryker run --mutate src/plugins/approve.ts on the harness of #572 (main@e3119ad) left 59 of 515 mutants alive (score 88.54%). Re-running with this file kills 26 of them (33 of 515 remain, score 93.6%); each of the remaining 33 was checked at its exact span and is equivalent (log strings, optional chains on values already guarded, switch default removals, an excluded.add after the covered files were removed) — see reports/mutation/report.json of the two runs, reproduced in the commit message.

Guards pinned (file / function):

• approvalEvents / humanLogin: a github-actions[bot] login is skipped on its own, without the Bot user type (approve.ts:144)
• computeApproval / suggestApprovers: a changed file with no OWNERS entry alongside a coverable one still yields a suggestion instead of a TypeError (approve.ts:260)
• computeApproval: the "approves none of the changed files" debug line names the ignored approver and is not emitted for an empty author (approve.ts:163, 201-205)
• renderNotifier: exact no-files body (approve.ts:289)
• approveOnPullRequest: unlabeled of another label makes no api call (approve.ts:466); the event's base branch is probed, not the default branch (approve.ts:503); a missing github-token input fails before any read (approve.ts:501)
• upsertNotifier / isBot: stale notifier by a type-less github-actions[bot] user is edited in place past a null-user comment (approve.ts:430); a body differing only by whitespace is up to date (approve.ts:416); the literal marker <!-- prow-github-actions/approve --> is what identifies the notifier (approve.ts:61)
• approveOnReview / evaluateOnOwnersRepo: a payload without review or pull request fails on the missing pull request (approve.ts:488, 493)

Disjoint from the open hold-gated PRs: new file only; #571's harness change touches approve*.test.ts siblings but not this file, and #575/#578/#579 cover owners/tide/auth.

Validation: npm run lint -- __tests__/plugins/approveGuards.test.ts, npm test (168 files, 2341 passed).

Related Issue

No tracking issue; this follows the per-module mutation triage of #575, #578 and #579 (harness: #572).

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[hivecommons-hive]

Important

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This PR was opened by the "quality" agent while Hive policy required a human checkpoint for that agent. Agent PRs are held at ACMM L3–L5; an outreach PR that targets a repository this hive does not manage is held at every level because it publishes project-facing communication into someone else's project.

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[github-actions]

Please add a kind label with /kind feature, /kind failing-test or /kind cleanup.

[hivecommons-hive]

Read the test file against src/plugins/approve.ts at this head. Every guard the PR body names exists where it says, and each case genuinely pins it:

• humanLogin's login-only github-actions[bot] skip is a distinct disjunct at approve.ts:144; the test's two comments (no type, type: 'User') each exercise it.
• The uncoverable-file case pins the ?.approvers ?? [] chain in suggestApprovers (approve.ts:247) — removing it on a file with no OWNERS entry would throw, exactly as claimed.
• The "approves none" debug line and its empty-author silence match approve.ts:160-166, 201-205 (author '' is never added to approving).
• The exact no-files notifier body matches approve.ts:288-290 line for line.
• unlabeled lgtm short-circuits at approve.ts:466-469 before any octokit construction; the ObserveRequest on the tree read proves no call.
• The base-branch probe (approve.ts:502-503) is the right thing to pin: the test's default branch has no OWNERS while release-1.0 does, so an inverted guard would fail visibly.
• isBot (approve.ts:430), the trim() equality (approve.ts:416), the marker match (approve.ts:410), and the missing-pull-request error (approve.ts:498, thrown before getInput at :501) are all as described.

Imports all resolve against the current harness (testUtils.ts:22,54,86,152; ownersFixtures.ts:13,91). New file only — no conflict with #571/#575/#578/#579. CI is green. Test-only change, no production code touched; looks correct to me.

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