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Automatic PR previews currently put their URL only in the Actions summary, making a successful deployment easy to miss in the PR conversation.

Post a preview-link comment after the automatic deployment succeeds, and update the existing bot-owned comment on later builds. Existing deployment triggers and fork handling remain unchanged.

Validation: full pre-commit suite passed with SKIP=check-copyright-year; shell syntax and local create/update notification checks passed. Live comment posting will be exercised by this PR's same-repository docs workflow.

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    • Pull requests now receive a comment with the documentation preview link after a successful preview deployment. The comment is updated when one already exists.

Signed-off-by: Jiwen Cai <jiwenc@nvidia.com>
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📝 Walkthrough

The documentation workflow now grants the deploy job permission to write pull request comments. After a successful preview deployment, it creates or updates a comment with the preview URL. It updates the first matching comment from github-actions[bot] that starts with the <!-- docs-preview --> marker, or posts a new comment if no match exists.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 5c392

Preview deployment still completes, but a PR with multiple matching preview comments can fail to create or refresh its link comment. This is limited to notification behavior and has a straightforward fix, so merge risk is low.

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✅ Preview deployed automatically: https://NVIDIA.github.io/IsaacCapture/preview/pr-1273/

It may take a minute for the updated preview to appear.

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Review comments at @.github/workflows/docs.yaml:
- Around line 330-332: Update the comment lookup in the docs workflow to select
the first matching comment ID without closing the pipeline early; replace `head
-n 1` with an approach that consumes all input so `gh api --paginate` does not
trigger `pipefail` under `set -euo pipefail`.

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Comment on lines +330 to +332
comment_id=$(gh api --paginate "repos/$REPO/issues/$PR/comments" \
--jq '.[] | select(.user.login == "github-actions[bot]" and (.body | startswith("<!-- docs-preview -->"))) | .id' \
| head -n 1)

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Comment lookup can match the wrong comment or fail the step on a non-matching pipe.

set -euo pipefail is active, and head -n 1 closes the pipe early. When gh api --paginate has more output than head reads, gh can receive SIGPIPE and exit non-zero. pipefail then propagates that status, and the assignment fails the step under set -e. This happens on PRs with many comments, where multiple pages of matches can exist. After the first deploy, a matching comment exists, so later runs can hit this on long threads. Collect all matches with jq, then pick the first one without closing the pipe early.

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--- "a/.github/workflows/docs.yaml"
+++ "b/.github/workflows/docs.yaml"
@@ -327,9 +327,9 @@
           It may take a minute for the updated preview to appear.
           EOF
           )"
-          comment_id=$(gh api --paginate "repos/$REPO/issues/$PR/comments" \
-            --jq '.[] | select(.user.login == "github-actions[bot]" and (.body | startswith("<!-- docs-preview -->"))) | .id' \
-            | head -n 1)
+          comment_id=$(gh api --paginate "repos/$REPO/issues/$PR/comments" \
+            --jq '.[] | select(.user.login == "github-actions[bot]" and (.body | startswith("<!-- docs-preview -->"))) | .id' \
+            | sed -n '1p')
           if [[ -n "$comment_id" ]]; then
             gh api --method PATCH "repos/$REPO/issues/comments/$comment_id" -f body="$body" > /dev/null
           else

sed -n '1p' reads all input, so gh never receives SIGPIPE.

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comment_id=$(gh api --paginate "repos/$REPO/issues/$PR/comments" \
--jq '.[] | select(.user.login == "github-actions[bot]" and (.body | startswith("<!-- docs-preview -->"))) | .id' \
| head -n 1)
comment_id=$(gh api --paginate "repos/$REPO/issues/$PR/comments" \
--jq '.[] | select(.user.login == "github-actions[bot]" and (.body | startswith("<!-- docs-preview -->"))) | .id' \
| sed -n '1p')
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Review comment at @.github/workflows/docs.yaml around lines 330 - 332:
Update the comment lookup in the docs workflow to select the first matching
comment ID without closing the pipeline early; replace `head -n 1` with an
approach that consumes all input so `gh api --paginate` does not trigger
`pipefail` under `set -euo pipefail`.

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How does it co-exist with existing manual doc preview triggers?

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Legend: 🚫 BLOCKER = merge-blocking | 💡 SUGGESTION = meaningful improvement | 🧹 NIT = precise small correction

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💡 .github/workflows/docs.yaml:322-329 - The comment always links the preview root, but on a PR that touches only the web client build-docs is skipped and preview/pr-N/ holds nothing but client/, so the one link posted 404s and the URL that works is missing. #1063 and #1148 are in that state today (preview/pr-1148/ returns 404, preview/pr-1148/client/ returns 200), so their next push would post a dead link. Pass the build-docs / build-app results into the step and list the docs URL and ${base}client/ only for what this run built.
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