bug: `develop --skip-validation` still requires `action:*` label

[ellen-goc]

Bug summary

askcc develop --skip-validation still fails with Missing required label with prefix 'action:' (found: []).

Reproduction

askcc develop -g https://github.com/monkut/hakoake-backend/issues/11 --skip-validation

Output:

2026-05-27 12:44:04 [ERROR] (askcc.cli) main: Missing required label with prefix 'action:' (found: [])

Exit code: non-zero.

Expected

When --skip-validation is passed, label presence checks should be bypassed so development can proceed in repositories that do not carry the SOP action:* label scheme (e.g. third-party / personal canonical repos like monkut/hakoake-backend).

Why it matters

Ellen is the project manager / developer for monkut/hakoake-backend (canonical, per the weyucou project board), but ellen-goc does not have AddLabelsToLabelable permission there, so the labels cannot be applied locally. --skip-validation is the documented escape hatch but it does not currently honour the label-check carve-out.

Workaround

None at present — the issue cannot be developed via askcc until either (a) the label is granted or (b) --skip-validation is fixed.

Suggested fix

The label-presence check appears to run before the skip_validation branch. Moving the check inside the validation gate, or guarding it with if not args.skip_validation, should resolve this.

Environment

• askcc --version: (whatever is current on monkut/askcc-cli main)
• Reproduced: 2026-05-27 12:44 JST

Related

Filed by ellen-goc per the Ellen agent project conventions: "askcc call failures — report bugs at https://github.com/monkut/askcc-cli. Do not retry silently."