ci: automatically publish docs previews for fork PRs

[jiwenc-nv]

Fork PRs currently require /preview-docs to publish built documentation. Automatically publish previews for PRs changing docs/, with one updated preview-link comment.

The publisher runs trusted default-branch code. Production publishing, maintainer retries, cleanup and GitHub’s fork-build approvals remain unchanged. Same-repository web-client previews remain automatic; maintainers can publish fork web-client previews with /preview-docs.

Validation: 13 selector tests run in the existing pre-commit.yaml CI workflow, separately from local hooks. Tests, full pre-commit, shell checks and read-only GitHub metadata checks passed. Actionlint passes excluding its unsupported existing concurrency.queue key. Live publication requires merging into main.

Consolidates #1281, including the fixes from its review.

[coderabbitai]

📝 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.

Pre-merge checks: 5

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Docstring Coverage		No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Description Check		Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check		The title is concise and related to automatic docs previews for fork PRs. It does not state that the main change adds or updates a preview-link comment, but it still describes a real part of the chang…

Full details: Docstring Coverage

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No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

Full details: Title check

Explanation

The title is concise and related to automatic docs previews for fork PRs. It does not state that the main change adds or updates a preview-link comment, but it still describes a real part of the change.

✨ Finishing Touches

🧪 Generate unit tests (beta)

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[github-actions]

✅ 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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Actionable comments posted: 1

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• 🪄 Fix comments: Fix CodeRabbit comments on this PR

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Inline comments:
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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[aristarkhovNV]

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

[ivany-nv]

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

	Finding
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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.
🧹	none

[jiwenc-nv]

Consolidated the complete automatic fork docs-preview implementation from #1281 into this PR, including the diagram and all four fixes from its review. The transferred file tree is identical to #1281’s updated implementation (73d47d0); original commit history is preserved. Full pre-commit passed. #1281 is closed in favor of this PR; please continue review here.