docs: document the v1 workflow interface

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The README described the legacy pr-checks.yml, build-release.yml and publish-stable.yml with stale input tables. This rewrites it for the v1 interface, the documentation half of Unit 5 in the v1 plan. Tagging v1.0.0 from the same unit waits for the rc canaries in issue 55, so issue 54 stays open.

The README now covers:

• which workflows each kind of repository calls, and the caller-owned status check;
• one section per v1 workflow, with input, secret and output tables taken from its workflow_call;
• repository requirements for all callers, Debian package repositories and npm package repositories;
• a migration guide that maps every legacy input to its v1 replacement.

Examples: examples/cockpit-apt showed the legacy workflows and is deleted. The docs-repo example now pins @v1. The .coderabbit.yaml rule for examples now expects @v1 everywhere.

AGENTS.md: "The interface" now also lists script override arguments, required permissions, and the VERSION and tag formats, matching the README's versioning rule.

Plan deviation: issue 54 lists a new examples/tag-only/ with pr.yml and main.yml. Those files would be identical to the npm example's, so the README tells tag-only repositories to use the npm pr.yml and main.yml without release.yml.

Verification:

• A script compared the README tables with the workflow_call blocks of all nine v1 workflows. It matched all 43 inputs, secrets and outputs by name, type, default and required flag, and found no extra rows.
• actionlint passes on the workflows and the remaining examples.
• The build-deb action sample and the rename-script arguments match halos-browser-trust and halos-metapackages.

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Calling repositories can now adopt the v1 workflow interface. The documentation defines:

• Workflow inputs, outputs, secrets, permissions, script overrides, and failure conditions.
• VERSION and tag formats.
• Required status checks and if: always() behavior.
• Repository requirements and migration steps from legacy workflows.
• Package rename, maintainer, metadata, lintian, and release-note behavior.

The examples now use @v1, and the obsolete examples/cockpit-apt workflows are removed. The example validation rule now checks all examples for legacy references, non-@v1 pins, and unnecessary status job dependencies.

The change does not provide test results. Issue 56 tracks one workspace AGENTS.md migration case. Relative workflow pinning and default release-note formatting remain review risks.

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Walkthrough

The PR documents the v1 shared-workflow interface, release contracts, migration from @main, and required caller behavior. It updates example enforcement, pins translation status to @v1, and removes obsolete cockpit-apt workflows.

Changes

v1 Interface and Example Migration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
v1 interface and caller composition AGENTS.md, README.md	Documents v1 workflow composition, required status checks, checks workflow inputs, translation-status requirements, and caller dependencies.
Release workflow contracts and repository requirements README.md	Documents Debian, npm, versioning, release, publishing, image-update, translation, local override, and repository requirement contracts.
Migration and legacy workflow guidance README.md	Defines migration from @main, maps legacy workflow inputs to v1 inputs, and records the status of legacy workflows.
Example workflow enforcement and cleanup .coderabbit.yaml, examples/cockpit-apt/.github/workflows/*, examples/docs-repo/.github/workflows/translation-status.yml	Enforces v1 pins and status-job structure, removes obsolete cockpit-apt workflows, and pins the translation-status example to @v1.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Other

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 36037

The current examples remain valid, but callers relying on AGENTS.md could add an unnecessary action or omit release serialization and encounter a failed concurrent release run.

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✅ Passed checks (3 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the main change: documenting the v1 workflow interface. It accurately represents the README and AGENTS.md updates, while the example workflow changes are supporting work.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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Scope: origin/main..360370d. Reviewers: correctness (README claims against workflow code), api-contract (v1 contract and migration mapping), project-standards. Testing and maintainability were not run: the PR changes documentation and two example comments only.

P2 -- Moderate

#	File	Issue	Reviewer	Confidence	Outcome
1	README.md	skip-lintian: true was mapped to lintian: false on build-deb.yml. The legacy flag skipped the whole PR build job (pr-checks.yml lintian job, if: !inputs.skip-lintian), and seven callers using it have no build-deb action, so build-deb.yml would fail with "produced no .deb".	correctness	0.85	Fixed: maps to "do not call build-deb.yml", with lintian: false for a PR build without lintian.
2	README.md	The if: always() explanation said a skipped required check blocks forever. GitHub documents that a skipped job reports Success and does not block merging; always() is needed so a failed dependency cannot pass as skipped.	correctness	0.70	Fixed in the README and in the docs-repo example comment, which carried the same wrong reason.
3	README.md	The versioning rule named only workflow names, inputs, secrets, outputs and local actions, while callers also depend on script override arguments, required permissions, and the VERSION and tag formats.	api-contract	0.72	Fixed in the README and in AGENTS.md "The interface".
4	README.md	The migration guide ended at merge, but a migration PR never runs main.yml (release-version.yml refuses other branches) or release.yml. No deb caller passes maintainer-name or maintainer-email, so copying values over yields none.	api-contract	0.66	Fixed: steps 5 and 6 watch the first main and release runs; the maintainer row says legacy-default callers now pass values. Also added to issue 56.

P3 -- Low

#	File	Issue	Reviewer	Confidence	Outcome
5	README.md	"renames each package" overstated the default rename, which handles only <package-name>_<debian-version>_all.deb.	correctness	0.75	Fixed.
6	README.md	The app check was described as requiring a version bump; it only requires metadata.yaml to change.	correctness	0.75	Fixed.
7	README.md	publish-npm.yml permission text omitted contents: read, which the called jobs declare.	api-contract	0.70	Fixed, plus a general note that every workflow needs contents: read.
8	README.md	"Other workflows" omitted the owner change for callers of hatlabs/shared-workflows such as flash-live-system.	api-contract	0.70	Fixed.
9	README.md	Legacy lintian checked only root *.deb; build-deb.yml also checks build/, so container repositories are linted for the first time.	api-contract	0.63	Fixed: note under the pr-checks.yml mapping.
10	examples/docs-repo/.../translation-status.yml	The comment still offered dropping the status job.	project-standards	0.66	Fixed.
11	README.md	Migration step 2 contradicts the workspace AGENTS.md per-org rule.	project-standards	0.70	Tracked: issue 56 updates the workspace AGENTS.md before the first hatlabs caller migrates.

Also folded in from residual risks: the runs-on row notes that the legacy lintian job ignored it, the version-file row covers publish-npm.yml, and step 4 says a push or rebase (not a re-run) adds status to open PRs.

Coverage

• Residual risk: checks.yml calls ./.github/workflows/version-bump-check.yml. Whether that relative reference follows a caller's @v1 pin is still open in the plan and is verified by the rc canaries in issue 55.
• Residual risk: default release notes change format on migration (draft title uses the stable tag; install text appears only when apt-repository is passed). Release notes are not machine-read.
• Testing gap: the table check covers names, types and defaults only; prose claims were checked by the correctness and api-contract reviewers.

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