ci: bump actions/checkout and actions/setup-node to v7

[rpvilo]

Part of CHAT-15. Clears the Node 20 deprecation warning every run has been emitting.

actions/checkout@v4 and actions/setup-node@v4 declare Node 20, which GitHub has deprecated on runners — they were being force-run on Node 24 with a warning on every job. Both v7s declare node24.

Why v7 rather than the v5 the issue names

The issue was written on 4 August, when v5 was current. Both are now two majors behind: checkout is at v7.0.1, setup-node at v7.0.0. v5 would clear the warning and leave us to do this again shortly.

I read the intervening release notes rather than assuming the jump was safe:

checkout v6 — credentials are persisted to a separate file. No effect here.

checkout v7 — blocks checking out fork PRs for pull_request_target and workflow_run. Does not affect us: ci.yml triggers on plain pull_request. Worth noting it hardens the same fork-PR surface as the other half of CHAT-15.

setup-node v6 — breaking: automatic caching limited to npm. No effect, because release.yml passes package-manager-cache: false explicitly.

setup-node v7 — removes a dummy NODE_AUTH_TOKEN export. This one touches the publish path, and it points the right way: release.yml deliberately sets no NODE_AUTH_TOKEN because authentication comes from OIDC trusted publishing, so a stray dummy token disappearing is aligned with that. Still, it is a change in the path that publishes to npm, so the next release is where it gets exercised.

I verified the three inputs release.yml relies on — node-version, registry-url, package-manager-cache — all still exist in v7's action.yml.

oven-sh/setup-bun@v2 and changesets/action@v1 are not flagged and are unchanged. The node-version: 22 pin stays: the floor is about the Node that gets installed for trusted publishing (≥ 22.14.0), not the action's own runtime.

Not in this PR

CHAT-15's other half is a repository setting rather than code — tightening fork-PR approval from first_time_contributors to all_outside_collaborators. Confirmed the current value is still first_time_contributors. It is a single gh api call and belongs with whoever owns repo administration, so the issue stays open for it.

Verification

Workflow files only, so CI on this PR is the test — a green verify run with no Node 20 annotation is the acceptance criterion. release.yml cannot be exercised until the next release.

Summary by CodeRabbit

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  • Updated automated build and release workflows to use the latest setup actions.
  • Improved checkout security by disabling persisted credentials during workflow runs.
  • Existing build, release, authentication, publishing, and versioning behavior remains unchanged.

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The CI and release workflows update GitHub Actions from v4 to v7. Both checkout steps disable persisted credentials. Other workflow behavior remains unchanged.

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Update workflow action versions .github/workflows/ci.yml, .github/workflows/release.yml	The workflows update checkout actions to v7. The release workflow also updates actions/setup-node to v7. Both checkout steps set persist-credentials: false.

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The credential-persistence finding is fixed in ad8d9b2 — persist-credentials: false on checkout in both workflows.

Worth recording why it was safe to disable in release.yml, since breaking the release pipeline would have been worse than the finding: changesets/action does not depend on checkout's credentials. Its src/github.ts defaults pushWithGitCli to false, so pushes go via the GitHub API using the explicit github-token, and the comment there treats checkout's http.extraHeader as something it overrides rather than relies on (v1 historically used ~/.netrc, also independent).

The CHANGES_REQUESTED verdict predates that commit.

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@rpvilo The credential-persistence finding is addressed.

Both workflows now use actions/checkout@v7 with persist-credentials: false. The release workflow still provides GITHUB_TOKEN to changesets/action@v1. This is consistent with the described API-based push path.

I found no remaining issue in the changed workflow configuration. I did not receive a workflow-run result, so I could not verify the absence of the Node 20 annotation.

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Learnt from: rpvilo
URL: https://github.com/Intentface/intentface-chat/pull/73

Timestamp: 2026-08-21T14:09:02.165Z
Learning: In `.github/workflows/release.yml`, `changesets/actionv1` does not require credentials persisted by `actions/checkout`. The action defaults `pushWithGitCli` to `false` and performs GitHub API pushes with its explicit `GITHUB_TOKEN`; therefore `actions/checkout` can use `persist-credentials: false` safely in this release workflow.

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