ci(dependabot): add explicit `labels` to remove default `javascript` label

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ci(dependabot): add explicit labels to remove default javascript label

⏱️ Estimate	📊 Priority	📏 Size	📅 Start	📅 End
1h	P2	XS	05-02-2026	05-02-2026

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📝 Summary

• Dependabot adds dependencies and javascript labels by default to npm PRs
• The javascript label is redundant and does not provide useful information
• Add explicit labels field to override defaults: dependencies and dependabot for npm, plus github_actions for github-actions ecosystem

💡 Why this change?

• Dependabot assigns default labels per ecosystem (dependencies + javascript for npm, dependencies + github_actions for github-actions)
• The javascript label is misleading for non-JavaScript packages (e.g., stylelint): even though it may be written in JS internally, the package is for CSS — labeling it as javascript is confusing
• Defining labels explicitly in dependabot.yml overrides the defaults

✅ Benefits

• Dependabot PRs use consistent labels (dependencies + dependabot) matching the project labeling convention
• The misleading javascript label is no longer automatically applied to npm PRs
• GitHub Actions PRs are distinguishable with the additional github_actions label

📋 Steps

Phase 1: Configure explicit labels in dependabot.yml

• Add labels field to the npm package-ecosystem with dependencies and dependabot:

- package-ecosystem: "npm"
  labels:
    - "dependencies"
    - "dependabot"

• Add labels field to the github-actions package-ecosystem with dependencies, dependabot and github_actions:

- package-ecosystem: "github-actions"
  labels:
    - "dependencies"
    - "dependabot"
    - "github_actions"

🧪 Tests

• Verify dependabot.yml syntax is valid
• Check next Dependabot PR only has the expected labels

🔗 References

Files to modify

• .github/dependabot.yml

Documentation

• Dependabot options reference - labels