#119 CI maintenance: clean up cspell.json and Slack notification wiring

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Summary

• Remove unused words from .vscode/cspell.json
• Use needs.<job>.result instead of needs.<job>.outputs.status for Slack notifications

Closes #119

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Resolves #119

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Code Quality

✅ No commented-out code — diff only removes lines, no commented-out code introduced.

✅ Meaningful variable names — N/A for this CI/YAML change.

✅ DRY principle — The change actually improves this by removing the redundant outputs block and using needs.<job>.result directly (the native GitHub Actions property).

✅ Defects / Logic correctness — This is a correct fix. Previously the workflow used a custom outputs.status that mirrored job.status, which is an unnecessary indirection. Using needs.<job>.result is the idiomatic GitHub Actions approach and avoids a potential race condition where the output might not be set if the job is cancelled before completing the outputs evaluation step. This is a genuine bug fix.

✅ No security vulnerabilities — CI configuration change only.

✅ No .claude/CLAUDE.md — No project memory file found; nothing to evaluate.

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Testing

✅ N/A — This is a CI workflow change with no application logic to unit/integration test.

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Documentation

❌ CHANGELOG.md not updated — The change fixes a bug in the Slack notification workflow. The most recent entry is 3.13.0 (2025-10-22). This CI fix warrants a changelog entry under an Unreleased section or similar. Minor CI-only fixes are sometimes omitted at team discretion, but it's worth flagging.

✅ README / API docs — No changes needed for a CI workflow fix.

✅ cspell.json formatting — Expanding "ignorePaths" from a single-line array to multi-line is a valid style improvement and consistent with the rest of the file's formatting. Removing the unused "esbenp" word (a VS Code extension author name no longer needed) is clean.

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Security

✅ No hardcoded credentials — Secrets are all referenced via ${{ secrets.* }}.

✅ No license files (.lic) or AQAAAD-prefixed content — None present.

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Summary

This is a small, correct CI maintenance PR with two changes:

1. Workflow fix (docker-push-containers-to-dockerhub-and-ecr.yaml): Replaces the fragile outputs.status pattern with the native needs.<job>.result, which is more reliable (especially on cancellation). This is a legitimate bug fix.
2. cspell cleanup (.vscode/cspell.json): Removes an unused word entry and reformats ignorePaths to multi-line style.

One item to address:

• Consider adding a CHANGELOG.md entry for this fix (e.g., under an [Unreleased] section noting the CI Slack notification fix).

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Super-linter summary

Language	Validation result
CHECKOV	Pass ✅
GITHUB_ACTIONS	Pass ✅
GITHUB_ACTIONS_ZIZMOR	Pass ✅
GITLEAKS	Pass ✅
GIT_MERGE_CONFLICT_MARKERS	Pass ✅
JSCPD	Pass ✅
PRE_COMMIT	Pass ✅
SPELL_CODESPELL	Pass ✅
TRIVY	Pass ✅
YAML	Pass ✅
YAML_PRETTIER	Pass ✅

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