From 7bd61a356e3daa7a4e5fba53349f2d87fc6db117 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Jonathan D.A. Jewell" <6759885+hyperpolymath@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2026 00:10:32 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] chore(dependabot): cap open pull requests per update
 block

Adds `open-pull-requests-limit` to Dependabot update blocks that had no
cap, following the estate per-ecosystem cap doctrine (task #37).
No other line in the file is touched.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011eQ7hibx92N7fBDtwgReWk
---
 .github/dependabot.yml                      | 1 +
 robot-repo-automaton/.github/dependabot.yml | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.github/dependabot.yml b/.github/dependabot.yml
index 690b8821..3642ab23 100644
--- a/.github/dependabot.yml
+++ b/.github/dependabot.yml
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ updates:
       actions:
         patterns:
           - "*"
+    open-pull-requests-limit: 2
 
   # Rust dependencies. Keep every Cargo project in one update entry so the
   # open-PR limit applies to the fleet as a whole, rather than once per bot.
diff --git a/robot-repo-automaton/.github/dependabot.yml b/robot-repo-automaton/.github/dependabot.yml
index 2f80405e..e41f2659 100644
--- a/robot-repo-automaton/.github/dependabot.yml
+++ b/robot-repo-automaton/.github/dependabot.yml
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ updates:
       actions:
         patterns:
           - "*"
+    open-pull-requests-limit: 2
   
   - package-ecosystem: "cargo"
     directory: "/"
@@ -16,13 +17,16 @@ updates:
     ignore:
       - dependency-name: "*"
         update-types: ["version-update:semver-patch"]
+    open-pull-requests-limit: 0
   
   - package-ecosystem: "npm"
     directory: "/"
     schedule:
       interval: "daily"
+    open-pull-requests-limit: 3
   
   - package-ecosystem: "pip"
     directory: "/"
     schedule:
       interval: "daily"
+    open-pull-requests-limit: 3

From 3713a1127ec5f76f509ea5ccebffe425746e0883 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "coderabbitai[bot]"
 <136622811+coderabbitai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2026 20:45:36 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] chore(dependabot): allow three open Cargo pull requests

---
 robot-repo-automaton/.github/dependabot.yml | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/robot-repo-automaton/.github/dependabot.yml b/robot-repo-automaton/.github/dependabot.yml
index e41f2659..c7c559af 100644
--- a/robot-repo-automaton/.github/dependabot.yml
+++ b/robot-repo-automaton/.github/dependabot.yml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ updates:
     ignore:
       - dependency-name: "*"
         update-types: ["version-update:semver-patch"]
-    open-pull-requests-limit: 0
+    open-pull-requests-limit: 3
   
   - package-ecosystem: "npm"
     directory: "/"