ci: smoke-test notebooks

[WilliamK112]

Description

Adds a path-scoped notebook smoke workflow that:

• validates every tracked notebook recursively with nbformat.validate
• executes notebooks/01_quickstart.ipynb against the checked-out package
• keeps optional ML/model notebooks validation-only and outside required execution
• disables checkout credential persistence before executing repository-controlled code
• registers and selects a dedicated freshdata-smoke kernel for the setup-python interpreter

The workflow also supports manual dispatch and uses read-only permissions plus concurrency cancellation.

Fixes #3

Type of Change

• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to not work as expected)
• Refactor / Style / Performance improvement

Checklist

• My code follows the style guidelines of this project
• I have performed a self-review of my own code
• I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas
• I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my feature works
• New and existing unit tests pass locally with my changes
• Type checks (mypy) and linter checks (ruff) pass locally

Validation

• All 7 tracked notebooks pass nbformat.validate
• notebooks/01_quickstart.ipynb executes successfully via NotebookClient with the dedicated kernel
• pytest -m "not online and not large": 4055 passed, 6 skipped, 12 deselected; 93.17% coverage
• ruff check .: passed
• mypy src/freshdata: passed
• Workflow YAML syntax and git diff --check: passed

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Added a GitHub Actions workflow that validates notebook JSON files and executes notebooks/01_quickstart.ipynb with Python 3.12 on relevant repository changes.

Changes

Notebook smoke testing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Workflow triggers and test environment .github/workflows/notebooks.yml	The workflow runs for notebook-related pushes, pull requests, or manual dispatch. It uses read-only permissions, cancels superseded runs, sets up Python 3.12, caches pip, and installs project and notebook dependencies.
Notebook validation and execution .github/workflows/notebooks.yml	The workflow validates every notebook under notebooks and executes notebooks/01_quickstart.ipynb with nbclient, the Python 3 kernel, and configured timeouts.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 995de

The new notebook workflow runs repository-controlled code with a persisted read-only GitHub token, creating a credential-exfiltration risk, and its kernel selection may cause the smoke test to fail or use the wrong Python environment. Merge readiness is moderate until these issues are fixed or explicitly accepted.

Suggested reviewers: johnnywilson-portfolio

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The workflow validates notebook JSON, executes the quickstart notebook, and excludes optional ML notebook execution as required by issue #3.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes are limited to the notebook smoke-test workflow and directly support the objectives in issue #3.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	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.)
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the notebook smoke-test workflow added by the pull request.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description includes the required summary, issue reference, change type, checklist, and detailed validation results.

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• Create PR with unit tests

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Inline comments:
In @.github/workflows/notebooks.yml:
- Line 41: Update the notebook workflow dependency setup to register a dedicated
smoke-test kernelspec for the configured Python interpreter, then ensure the
notebook execution using NotebookClient selects that registered kernel_name
consistently.
- Line 31: Update the actions/checkout@v4 step to set persist-credentials to
false, preventing the workflow’s GITHUB_TOKEN from being stored in local Git
configuration; leave the remaining checkout behavior unchanged.

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[JohnnyWilson16]

Nice CI addition. Validating the notebook JSON structure and smoke-testing 01_quickstart.ipynb will catch regressions early without adding heavy ML dependencies or overhead to CI. Approved!