Pin every action to a commit SHA

A tag is a mutable pointer. `actions/checkout@v7` is whatever the
publisher last moved v7 to, so using one is not trusting the version that
was reviewed -- it is trusting every future version, including whatever
is pushed by whoever compromises the publisher's account. That is the
shape of the tj-actions/changed-files compromise: no repository changed a
line, the tags moved underneath them, and the action began dumping runner
memory to the logs.

Each `uses:` now carries the full 40-character SHA with its release in a
trailing comment. Read the comment for the version; the SHA is what runs.
Dependabot already covers github-actions weekly and updates both halves
together, so keeping current costs nothing.

The dataaxiom cleanup action was already pinned -- it is handed
`packages: write` and deletes things, so it was worth doing early -- and
only picks up the trailing-version convention here. Its comment loses the
"rather than a moving major tag" framing, which is no longer what makes
it different from its neighbors now that they are all pinned too.

The two `uses: ./.github/workflows/...` entries are local paths, not
actions: they always resolve within the commit already running and there
is no SHA to pin.
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@@ -15,8 +15,19 @@ jobs:
build:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v7
- uses: actions/setup-node@v7
# Every `uses:` in this repository is pinned to a full commit SHA, with
# the release it belongs to in the trailing comment, and the repository
# requires it -- an unpinned ref fails the run rather than quietly
# resolving. A tag is a mutable pointer: `@v7` is whatever the publisher
# last moved it to, so trusting one is trusting every future version of
# that action, including the one pushed by whoever compromises the
# account. Read the comment for the version; the SHA is what runs.
#
# Dependabot updates both halves together on its weekly github-actions
# run, so this costs nothing to keep current -- do not "simplify" a pin
# back to a tag.
- uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7.0.1
- uses: actions/setup-node@820762786026740c76f36085b0efc47a31fe5020 # v7.0.0
with:
node-version: 26
cache: npm