fix(renovate): lowercase commitMessageAction to pass PR title validator

[williaby]

Summary

• Add global "commitMessageAction": "update" to renovate.json
• Lowercase the lockFileMaintenance override that also had "Update"

Why

The PR title validator (amannn/action-semantic-pull-request) uses subjectPattern: ^(?![A-Z]).+$, which rejects subjects beginning with an uppercase letter. Renovate's default commitMessageAction is "Update" (capital U), so every automated Renovate PR fails the Validate PR Title CI check immediately.

This was first observed in PR #46 (chore(deps): Update GitHub Actions), where the subject "Update GitHub Actions" failed because "Update" starts with uppercase "U".

Changes

• renovate.json: Added "commitMessageAction": "update" at the global level so all future Renovate PRs generate lowercase subjects. Also lowercased the lockFileMaintenance.commitMessageAction override for consistency.

Test plan

• PR chore(deps): update GitHub Actions #46 title has been manually edited to chore(deps): update GitHub Actions as the immediate fix
• This config change prevents recurrence for all future Renovate PRs
• All pre-commit hooks pass on renovate.json

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  • Updated automated dependency update commit message formatting configuration.

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Walkthrough

The pull request updates Renovate configuration to normalize the commitMessageAction setting from titlecase "Update" to lowercase "update" in both the lockFileMaintenance block and as a new top-level configuration field.

Changes

Renovate commitMessageAction configuration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
commitMessageAction normalization renovate.json	commitMessageAction is changed from "Update" to "update" within lockFileMaintenance and added as a top-level configuration field set to "update".

Estimated code review effort

🎯 1 (Trivial) | ⏱️ ~3 minutes

Poem

🐰 A hop through the config, so clean and so neat,
From "Update" to "update"—now the formatting's sweet!
commitMessageAction, lowercase and bright,
Renovate's commits now follow what's right! ✨

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and specifically describes the main change: lowercasing the commitMessageAction setting in renovate.json to comply with a PR title validator that rejects uppercase-starting subjects.
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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Pull request overview

This PR updates the Renovate configuration so Renovate-generated PR titles have a lowercase subject (“update …”), satisfying the repository’s PR title validator regex that rejects subjects starting with an uppercase letter.

Changes:

• Set global commitMessageAction to "update" so Renovate PR subjects start lowercase by default.
• Lowercase the lockFileMaintenance.commitMessageAction override for consistency.

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Actionable comments posted: 0

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