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Explanation of Change

This PR refactors the createOrUpdateStagingDeploy action to improve clarity, maintainability, and testability. Key changes:

  1. Extract StagingDeployUtils.ts — All StagingDeploy-specific types, parsers, and functions (previously embedded in GithubUtils.ts) are moved into a dedicated module at .github/libs/StagingDeployUtils.ts.

  2. Standalone CLI script — The core logic is restructured as scripts/createOrUpdateStagingDeploy.ts, a standalone ts-node script that can be run locally. The GitHub Actions entrypoint is reduced to a thin wrapper that imports and calls run().

  3. Code quality improvements:

    • Break run() into focused helpers: buildNewChecklistParams() and buildUpdateChecklistParams()
    • Consolidate checkbox state preservation into preserveCheckboxState()
    • Generalize four similar checklist parsers into a single parseChecklistSection() helper
    • Accept PR numbers directly (not URLs) to avoid unnecessary roundtripping
    • Use dedent template literals for issue body construction instead of string concatenation
    • Remove void from generateStagingDeployCashBodyAndAssignees return type to allow error propagation
    • Convert .then() chains to async/await throughout
  4. Test updates — StagingDeploy tests are migrated from GithubUtilsTest.ts to a new StagingDeployUtilsTest.ts. All test imports updated to reflect the new module structure.

Fixed Issues

$ #60060

Tests

TODO: manually test the script in App-Test-Fork?

  • Run TypeScript typecheck — passes

Offline tests

N/A — This is a CI/CD script, not a user-facing feature.

QA Steps

[No QA] — This change only affects CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions). No user-facing behavior is modified.

  • Verify that no errors appear in the JS console

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    • I added steps for Staging and/or Production testing in the QA steps section
    • I added steps to cover failure scenarios (i.e. verify an input displays the correct error message if the entered data is not correct)
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    • Android: mWeb Chrome
    • iOS: Native
    • iOS: mWeb Safari
    • MacOS: Chrome / Safari
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Screenshots/Videos

Android: Native

N/A — CI/CD tooling change only

Android: mWeb Chrome

N/A — CI/CD tooling change only

iOS: Native

N/A — CI/CD tooling change only

iOS: mWeb Safari

N/A — CI/CD tooling change only

MacOS: Chrome / Safari

N/A — CI/CD tooling change only

Extracts StagingDeploy-specific logic from GithubUtils into a dedicated
StagingDeployUtils module, restructures the action as a standalone ts-node
CLI script with a thin GitHub Actions wrapper, and applies several code
quality improvements:

- Break run() into focused helpers (buildNewChecklistParams, buildUpdateChecklistParams)
- Consolidate checkbox state preservation into preserveCheckboxState()
- Generalize checklist parsers into a single parseChecklistSection() helper
- Accept PR numbers directly instead of URL roundtripping
- Use dedent template literals for issue body construction
- Remove void from generateStagingDeployCashBodyAndAssignees return type
- Convert .then() chains to async/await throughout

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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- Fix "accessble" → "accessible" typo in scripts/createOrUpdateStagingDeploy.ts
- Rebuild all GitHub Actions bundles with npm run gh-actions-build

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
@roryabraham roryabraham changed the title Refactor createOrUpdateStagingDeploy for clarity and maintainability [No QA] Refactor createOrUpdateStagingDeploy for clarity and maintainability Feb 20, 2026
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roryabraham and others added 3 commits February 20, 2026 17:20
The thin action wrapper only read GITHUB_TOKEN from action input
and delegated to the core script. Running the script directly with
`npx ts-node` eliminates the ncc build step for this action and
reduces file count.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
…m type

Both StagingDeployCashPR and StagingDeployCashBlocker had the same shape
with differently-named boolean keys. Collapsing them into ChecklistItem
with isChecked removes the generic K parameter from parseChecklistSection
and preserveCheckboxState, making both functions simpler to read and call.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
…deploy

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