[henrymercer]

Exclude Notify from the checks that pr-checks/sync-checks.ts makes required. This check comes from the PR dequeued workflow and only runs when a PR is removed from the merge queue, so requiring it would block PRs from merging.

Risk assessment

For internal use only. Please select the risk level of this change:

• Low risk: Changes are fully under feature flags, or have been fully tested and validated in pre-production environments and are highly observable, or are documentation or test only.

Which use cases does this change impact?

Environments:

• Testing/None - This change does not impact any CodeQL workflows in production.

How did/will you validate this change?

• Other - Before this change, a dry run of pr-checks/sync-checks.ts --ref e70c0414bf2f50ae4617cac7ffe7db16cd2bf06b, the head of a PR that had been removed from the merge queue, proposed adding Notify to main, releases/v3 and releases/v4. With this change, the dry run excludes it and proposes no changes.

If something goes wrong after this change is released, what are the mitigation and rollback strategies?

• Development/testing only - This change cannot cause any failures in production.

How will you know if something goes wrong after this change is released?

• Other

Are there any special considerations for merging or releasing this change?

• No special considerations - This change can be merged at any time.

Merge / deployment checklist

• Confirm this change is backwards compatible with existing workflows.
• Consider adding a changelog entry for this change.
• Confirm the readme and docs have been updated if necessary.

[Copilot]

🟢 Approval recommended

No active review issues are identified, and the change addresses the merge-queue-only Notify check by excluding it from required checks and documenting when it runs.

No open issues 🎉

What changed in this PR

This pull request excludes the merge-queue-only Notify check from required status checks so it cannot block pull requests that did not trigger it.

Changes:

• Adds Notify to the exact-match exclusions.
• Documents that the check runs only when a pull request is removed from the merge queue.

This pull request is ready to be approved.

File	Description
pr-checks/​excluded.yml	Excludes the merge-queue-only Notify check from required checks.

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