[refactoring] Introduce shared/daily-issue-base.md for scheduled issue-creating workflows

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Overview

Multiple daily/scheduled workflows detect code quality issues and create GitHub issues (not discussions) but duplicate the same boilerplate frontmatter. A shared/daily-issue-base.md component — analogous to the existing shared/daily-audit-base.md — would consolidate this pattern.

Current Usage (6 confirmed + ~6 partial)

Workflows with the complete pattern (tracker-id + skip-if-match: is:issue + create-issue + reporting.md + activation-app.md):

Workflow	Lines saved (est.)
architecture-guardian.md	~15
breaking-change-checker.md	~12
daily-file-diet.md	~12
daily-testify-uber-super-expert.md	~12
refactoring-cadence.md	~15
spec-librarian.md	~12

Partial adopters (tracker-id + create-issue, missing skip-if-match or activation-app): daily-cache-strategy-analyzer, deep-report, workflow-normalizer, daily-skill-optimizer, copilot-token-optimizer, discussion-task-miner.

Proposed Shared Component: shared/daily-issue-base.md

---
# Bundle for daily/scheduled code quality workflows that create GitHub issues.
# Bundles: activation-app + reporting + standardized create-issue safe-outputs.
#
# Usage:
#   imports:
#     - uses: shared/daily-issue-base.md
#       with:
#         title-prefix: "[my-workflow] "
#         expires: "2d"
#         labels: [automation, cookie]

import-schema:
  title-prefix:
    type: string
    required: true
    description: "Title prefix for created issues, e.g. '[my-workflow] '"
  expires:
    type: string
    default: "2d"
    description: "How long to keep issues before expiry"
  labels:
    type: array
    default: [automated-analysis, cookie]
    description: "Labels to apply to created issues"

imports:
  - shared/activation-app.md
  - shared/reporting.md

safe-outputs:
  create-issue:
    expires: ${{ github.aw.import-inputs.expires }}
    title-prefix: ${{ github.aw.import-inputs.title-prefix }}
    labels: ${{ github.aw.import-inputs.labels }}
    max: 1
  noop:
---

Example Usage (After Migration)

imports:
  - uses: shared/daily-issue-base.md
    with:
      title-prefix: "[architecture-guardian] "
      expires: "2d"
      labels: [architecture, automated-analysis, cookie]

Estimated Impact

• ~12 workflows immediately benefit (6 direct + 6 partial adopters)
• ~15 lines removed per workflow on average
• Maintenance benefit: Changes to create-issue defaults, noop, or activation-app propagate automatically

Migration Plan

1. Create shared/daily-issue-base.md with the schema above
2. Recompile all existing workflows to verify they compile cleanly: make recompile
3. For each of the 6 confirmed workflows: replace imports: shared/activation-app.md + shared/reporting.md + inline safe-outputs.create-issue block with the new shared import
4. Test compilation of each migrated workflow
5. Submit single PR with all migrations

References: §25163549011

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