chore(ci): make Scorecard periodic, not per-push

[hyperpolymath]

Makes the OpenSSF Scorecard workflow periodic by dropping its push (and, in one repository, pull_request) trigger. schedule, workflow_dispatch and branch_protection_rule are all kept.

Why. Scorecard measures the repository's supply-chain posture, not the change under review. That is the 📅 PERIODIC: tier in the estate's signal-discipline standard: on a schedule against the default branch, feeding a dashboard — not on every event. It cannot meaningfully pass or fail a diff.

Measured across 303 scorecard workflows before this sweep:

199  push, schedule, workflow_dispatch
 93  branch_protection_rule, schedule, push
  1  push, pull_request, schedule, workflow_dispatch
  1  schedule, workflow_dispatch          <- the target shape

So ~292 repositories ran a full posture scan on every push to the default branch. That is pure cost: the score cannot meaningfully change between two consecutive merges.

Deliberately kept: branch_protection_rule. It fires on a settings change — not per pull request — so it does not violate the PERIODIC rule, and it re-measures precisely what Scorecard scores after exactly the change most likely to alter it.

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Updates the OpenSSF Scorecard CI workflow to run periodically by dropping push and pull_request triggers. Consider adding back workflow_dispatch to match the intended configuration described in the PR.

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💡 Quality: workflow_dispatch claimed 'kept' but absent from workflow

📄 .github/workflows/scorecard.yml:4-7

The commit message and PR description both state workflow_dispatch is 'deliberately kept' for manual re-runs, and the target shape is 'schedule, workflow_dispatch'. However scorecard.yml only defines branch_protection_rule and schedule triggers — there is no workflow_dispatch, so the workflow cannot be triggered manually. Add workflow_dispatch: under on: to match the stated intent and the documented target shape.

Add the workflow_dispatch trigger the description says is kept.

on:
  branch_protection_rule:
  schedule:
    - cron: '23 4 * * 1'
  workflow_dispatch:

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Code Review: Updates the OpenSSF Scorecard CI workflow to run periodically by dropping push and pull_request triggers. Consider adding back workflow_dispatch to match the intended configuration described in the PR.

1. 💡 Quality: workflow_dispatch claimed 'kept' but absent from workflow
   Files: .github/workflows/scorecard.yml:4-7

   The commit message and PR description both state workflow_dispatch is 'deliberately kept' for manual re-runs, and the target shape is 'schedule, workflow_dispatch'. However scorecard.yml only defines branch_protection_rule and schedule triggers — there is no workflow_dispatch, so the workflow cannot be triggered manually. Add `workflow_dispatch:` under `on:` to match the stated intent and the documented target shape.

   Fix (Add the workflow_dispatch trigger the description says is kept.):
   on:
     branch_protection_rule:
     schedule:
       - cron: '23 4 * * 1'
     workflow_dispatch:

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