[isaacroldan]

What this PR does

Dev Experience gardener cleanup: this removes one workflow that has never run and fixes one that fails every day. Evidence comes from a read-only inventory of the Dev Experience repos' automation taken on 2026-10-27.

Remove gardener-investigate-issue.yml. It has 0 runs since it was added on 2026-04-20, and the devtools-investigate-for-gardener label has never been used in this repo. The investigating-github-issues skill in .claude/skills/ stays because it works locally without the workflow. No docs mention the workflow or the label.

Fix the waiting-for-response closer. close-waiting-for-response-issues.yml has failed every day since 2026-09-25 (latest failure, 2026-10-27, first failure, 2026-09-25, last success, 2026-09-24). Each run stops at "Getting action download info" with Repository access blocked: GitHub has blocked actions-cool/issues-helper itself. gh api repos/actions-cool/issues-helper returns 403 with block reason tos, created 2026-09-24T23:51:05Z.

This PR switches to the setup the remix template has used since 2026-07-13 (file, green run on 2026-10-27). That is actions/stale@1e223db275d687790206a7acac4d1a11bd6fe629 # v10.4.0 with days-before-stale: -1 and days-before-close: -1, so it only closes issues that already carry the "Waiting for Response" label. The label match is case-insensitive.

• The workflow name, the schedule and the closing message stay the same.
• The 7-day window stays the same: the old inactive-day value is now days-before-issue-close.
• actions/stale needs actions: write to save its state cache, so the file now has a permissions block.
• remove-issue-stale-when-updated: false leaves label removal to remove-labels-on-activity.yml. That workflow is unchanged and still drops the label when someone comments.

No open issue has the label today, so merging this won't close anything right away.

Reviewer's guide to testing

Parsed every workflow in .github/workflows/ with PyYAML (actionlint isn't installed locally). The closer hasn't been run end to end. After merge, workflow_dispatch can trigger it once.

Things to focus on

1. .github/workflows/close-waiting-for-response-issues.yml: check that the inputs match the remix template's version, apart from the 7-day window and this repo's closing message.

Checklist

• Update CHANGELOG.md if the changes would impact users: not needed, because this is CI-only and doesn't affect users
• Update README.md, if appropriate: n/a
• Update any relevant pages in /docs, if necessary: n/a (no docs reference these workflows)
• For security fixes, the Disclosure Policy must be followed: n/a