[henrymercer]

Exclude github-advanced-security and License compliance check from the checks that pr-checks/sync-checks.ts makes required. These checks don't run on every PR, so requiring them would block the PRs they don't run on.

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 f033e23010ed0ec7f126990ec8c7182da9978c38 proposed adding both checks to main, releases/v3 and releases/v4. With this change, the dry run excludes them 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

The focused configuration change uses the existing exact-match exclusion mechanism and matches the stated purpose.

No open issues 🎉

What changed in this PR

Prevents required-check synchronization from blocking PRs by requiring checks that do not run on every PR.

Changes:

• Adds exact-name exclusions for github-advanced-security and License compliance check.
• Documents why these checks should not be made required.

File	Description
pr-checks/​excluded.yml	Excludes both conditional checks from required-check synchronization.

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