From 5e31419f8998e637a233e9f8dc167131f5b8187f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "github-actions[bot]"
 <41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2026 03:54:07 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add job-discriminator concurrency tip for mixed
 schedule/dispatch archetypes

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 patterns/archetypes/repo-maintainer.json        | 3 ++-
 patterns/archetypes/responsive-docs-tester.json | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/patterns/archetypes/repo-maintainer.json b/patterns/archetypes/repo-maintainer.json
index 1fc4304..171ad61 100644
--- a/patterns/archetypes/repo-maintainer.json
+++ b/patterns/archetypes/repo-maintainer.json
@@ -60,7 +60,8 @@
     "Use persistent memory and check for existing work before acting",
     "Limit each run to one high-value maintenance task",
     "Leave merges, approvals, and destructive actions to maintainers",
-    "Add a pre-activation step that skips scheduled runs once too many open PRs share your title prefix, to avoid spamming maintainers"
+    "Add a pre-activation step that skips scheduled runs once too many open PRs share your title prefix, to avoid spamming maintainers",
+    "Set concurrency.job-discriminator to ${{ github.event_name == 'schedule' && 'scheduled' || github.run_id }} so a manually- or slash-command-triggered run doesn't get cancelled by (or cancel) the recurring scheduled run"
   ],
   "anti_patterns": [
     "repo-assist",
diff --git a/patterns/archetypes/responsive-docs-tester.json b/patterns/archetypes/responsive-docs-tester.json
index 0322b8e..dc240ea 100644
--- a/patterns/archetypes/responsive-docs-tester.json
+++ b/patterns/archetypes/responsive-docs-tester.json
@@ -31,7 +31,8 @@
     "Capture screenshots only on failure and publish them with the upload-asset safe output so evidence is attached without bloating the report",
     "Always stop the local preview server in a cleanup step even if earlier steps fail",
     "Call noop when every viewport passes instead of leaving no output",
-    "Set expires and close-older-issues (or skip-if-match) on create-issue so scheduled runs don't accumulate duplicate reports"
+    "Set expires and close-older-issues (or skip-if-match) on create-issue so scheduled runs don't accumulate duplicate reports",
+    "If workflow_dispatch exposes inputs (e.g. devices, docs_dir, build_command) alongside the schedule trigger, set concurrency.job-discriminator to ${{ github.event_name == 'schedule' && 'scheduled' || github.run_id }} so an ad hoc dispatched run with different inputs doesn't cancel or get cancelled by the recurring scheduled run"
   ],
   "anti_patterns": []
 }