docs(standards): add repository onboarding checklist

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Summary

• add the mandatory repository governance and configuration checklist
• separate language and artifact-specific CI from the baseline
• document live ruleset verification, branch flow, and release safeguards

Verification

• npx --yes markdownlint-cli2 REPOSITORY_ONBOARDING.md
• actionlint .github/workflows/*.yml
• python3 -m py_compile generate_svg.py
• parsed renovate.json and renovate-config.json with Ruby JSON

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Added a comprehensive repository onboarding checklist.
  • Documented required metadata, contributor resources, security and dependency tooling, local hooks, branch protection, CI requirements, release controls, and completion verification steps.

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• REPOSITORY_ONBOARDING.md

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Walkthrough

Adds REPOSITORY_ONBOARDING.md, a checklist for repository classification, governance metadata, branch protection, CI, release controls, and final verification.

Changes

Repository onboarding

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Onboarding scope and repository metadata REPOSITORY_ONBOARDING.md	Defines repository classification, artifact inventory, contributor documentation, security metadata, Renovate and CodeRabbit configuration, Lefthook gates, and conditional Qlty usage.
Branch and CI controls REPOSITORY_ONBOARDING.md	Specifies main branch rules, review requirements, CI contexts, CodeQL conditions, executable-code checks, and conditional test workflows.
Release and onboarding verification REPOSITORY_ONBOARDING.md	Defines release validation, artifact publishing controls, supply-chain metadata, consumer checks, and final onboarding verification steps.

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

Mergeability Score: 🟡 Moderate · up to 804b3

The onboarding checklist has incomplete verification steps, may direct users to validate the wrong branch, and omits required hardening guidance for an executable automation workflow. These gaps could allow repositories to be treated as compliant without the required checks or security controls, so the PR should be corrected or explicitly accepted before merging.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the addition of a repository onboarding checklist in the documentation standards area.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Inline comments:
In `@REPOSITORY_ONBOARDING.md`:
- Around line 148-153: Harden the executable workflow described by the
update-stats configuration: pin every action to a full commit SHA, add
least-privilege job permissions, explicit timeouts and concurrency, and place
step-security/harden-runner with the smallest justified egress allowlist before
Python execution. Disable persisted checkout credentials by default, retaining
them only for the documented push step that requires contents: write and
secrets.ACCESS_TOKEN; preserve the workflow’s existing update-and-push behavior.
- Around line 215-218: Update the final verification checklist in
REPOSITORY_ONBOARDING.md to explicitly include Markdown linting and Python
compilation via python -m compileall, using the repository’s applicable exact
commands alongside the existing JSON/YAML and workflow checks.

Apply the same fix in `@REPOSITORY_ONBOARDING.md` around lines 219 - 221.

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Reviewed the onboarding standard, resolved findings, and verified commands. Looks good.