From 787d58ce31e51765b18a2656ddc7429e70496543 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kevin Veen-Birkenbach <kevin@veen.world>
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2026 16:06:09 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] chore(ci): keep the dependencies current without being asked

Dependabot covers pip and github-actions, weekly on Monday. There is no docker
ecosystem here because the Dockerfile builds `FROM ${BASE_IMAGE}`, a build arg
resolved by scripts/build/base.sh, so nothing in the file is a tag Dependabot
could pin; the base image is refreshed by the nightly rebuild in base-images
instead.

Dependabot has no Nix ecosystem either, and flake.lock pins the nixpkgs
revision that supplies the interpreter and the C headers every repository in
the catalogue is installed against. Left alone, that lock ages silently: the
shell keeps building, on packages nobody refreshed. update-flake-lock opens a
pull request for it on the same Monday schedule, and Dependabot's
github-actions axis keeps that workflow's own three action pins current.

Verified: both files parse, and the workflow resolves to one job whose steps
pin actions/checkout@v4, nix-installer-action@v16 and update-flake-lock@v24.
Neither runs before this lands on the default branch.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 .github/dependabot.yml                  | 23 ++++++++++++++++++
 .github/workflows/update-flake-lock.yml | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 55 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 .github/dependabot.yml
 create mode 100644 .github/workflows/update-flake-lock.yml

diff --git a/.github/dependabot.yml b/.github/dependabot.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c09ab22
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/dependabot.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+version: 2
+
+updates:
+  - package-ecosystem: "pip"
+    directory: "/"
+    schedule:
+      interval: "weekly"
+      day: "monday"
+      time: "00:00"
+    rebase-strategy: "auto"
+    labels:
+      - "dependencies"
+      - "python"
+
+  - package-ecosystem: "github-actions"
+    directory: "/"
+    schedule:
+      interval: "weekly"
+      day: "monday"
+      time: "00:00"
+    labels:
+      - "dependencies"
+      - "ci"
diff --git a/.github/workflows/update-flake-lock.yml b/.github/workflows/update-flake-lock.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..92e55b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/update-flake-lock.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+name: Update flake.lock
+
+on:
+  schedule:
+    - cron: "0 0 * * 1"
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
+jobs:
+  lock:
+    name: Update flake.lock
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    permissions:
+      contents: write
+      pull-requests: write
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Install Nix
+        uses: DeterminateSystems/nix-installer-action@v16
+
+      - name: Update flake.lock and open a pull request
+        uses: DeterminateSystems/update-flake-lock@v24
+        with:
+          pr-title: "chore(deps): update flake.lock"
+          pr-labels: |
+            dependencies
+            nix