ci: skip full CI suite on Version Packages PRs from changeset-release/main

[Copilot]

Version Packages PRs (from changeset-release/main) only contain version bumps and changelog updates — the code was already validated before merging to main. Running the full CI suite on these PRs is wasteful, and the Validate changesets step actively fails because changesets files are consumed during versioning.

Changes

• ci.yml — Skip verify job when the PR head branch is changeset-release/main:

  if: github.event_name != 'pull_request' || github.head_ref != 'changeset-release/main'

  GitHub treats skipped jobs as satisfying required status checks, so no branch protection rule changes are needed.

• release.yml — Skip the verify (CI checks) reuse call when pushing to changeset-release/main, and update version_or_release to run when verify is either successful or skipped:

  verify:
    if: github.ref != 'refs/heads/changeset-release/main'
  
  version_or_release:
    if: always() && (needs.verify.result == 'success' || needs.verify.result == 'skipped')

[changeset-bot]

🦋 Changeset detected

Latest commit: 9af8e11

The changes in this PR will be included in the next version bump.

This PR includes changesets to release 0 packages

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[trevor-coleman]

@copilot will this skip both when new commits are pushed to a PR and also when the PR is first opened?

[Copilot]

@copilot will this skip both when new commits are pushed to a PR and also when the PR is first opened?

Yes — both cases are covered. The pull_request event fires for both PR creation (opened) and new pushes to the PR (synchronize), so github.event_name == 'pull_request' is true in both scenarios.

With the condition:

if: github.event_name != 'pull_request' || github.head_ref != 'changeset-release/main'

When the head branch is changeset-release/main, both sub-expressions evaluate to false, so false || false = false — the job is skipped whether the PR was just opened or a new commit was pushed to it.