Fix auto-approve workflow check waiting

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Motivation

• The auto-approve workflow could hang waiting on CI checks because it used gh pr checks --watch, which can include the approval workflow's own in-progress check and block approval.
• The workflow must fail fast on real failures and only wait for other workflows' pending checks before calling gh pr review --approve.
• The previous approval comment used an unindented heredoc inside a run: | block which risked invalid YAML parsing.

Description

• Replace gh pr checks --watch with an explicit polling loop that calls gh pr checks --json bucket,name,workflow and inspects check bucket values.
• Add APPROVAL_WORKFLOW (set to github.workflow) and exclude that workflow from the wait logic, treat checks with bucket fail or cancel as blocking, and only wait while other checks are pending.
• Replace the unindented heredoc for the approval comment with a printf-based construction so the run: | block remains valid YAML.

Testing

• Parsed the workflow YAML with ruby -e 'require "psych"; Psych.load_file(".github/workflows/pr-auto-approve.yml"); puts "parsed"' and it succeeded.
• Ran git diff --check to ensure no whitespace/syntax issues and it returned clean results.

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Security   Reliability   Complexity   Hygiene

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Analyzer	Status	Updated (UTC)	Details
JavaScript		Jul 3, 2026 11:18a.m.	Review ↗

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