Enable auto-merge in setup so dependabot PRs can land#32
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The centrally-synced dependabot_automation workflow runs
`gh pr merge --auto --squash` on dependabot PRs, but on a fresh repo
this fails with:
GraphQL: Auto merge is not allowed for this repository
(enablePullRequestAutoMerge)
GitHub's repo-level "Allow auto-merge" setting is off by default.
Adding --enable-auto-merge to the existing gh repo edit call turns it
on as part of setup, so the central automation works end-to-end on
new repos without manual toggling.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
--enable-auto-mergeto thegh repo editcall insetup.js.dependabot_automationworkflow fails withAuto merge is not allowed for this repository (enablePullRequestAutoMerge)on every fresh template repo, because GitHub's repo-level "Allow auto-merge" setting is off by default.Why
The central automation does
gh pr merge --auto --squash, which requires repo-level auto-merge enabled. Without this fix, every new repo from the template needs manual toggling before dependabot PRs can land — encountered on a fresh repo created from this template today.Test plan
gh repo view --jsonshows auto-merge allowed🤖 Generated with Claude Code