This PR introduces a distinct NPM package/script under scripts/changetool for the purpose of validating change-notes (and eventually, in a subsequent PR, merging change-notes into CHANGELOG.md).

Presently, this script has only one command, validate (executed as npm --workspace changetool start validate), which accepts path(s) to change-note files to be validated. Any flaws in the change-notes are described in the output, and the command will exit with 1.

$ npm --workspace changetool start validate package.json 

> changetool@1.0.0 start
> tsx index.ts validate package.json

package.json: invalid filename; must match pattern YYYY-MM-DD-id.md
package.json: invalid category; must be one of: breaking, feature, improvement, securityFix, fix, unship, deprecation, knownIssue, misc
package.json: invalid Markdown; content must be a single unordered list with hyphen bullets and no other Markdown elements

Risk assessment

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• Low risk: Changes are fully under feature flags, or have been fully tested and validated in pre-production environments and are highly observable, or are documentation or test only.

Which use cases does this change impact?

Workflow types:

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Products:

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Environments:

• Testing/None - This change does not impact any CodeQL workflows in production.

How did/will you validate this change?

• Unit tests - I am depending on unit test coverage (i.e. tests in .test.ts files).

If something goes wrong after this change is released, what are the mitigation and rollback strategies?

• Development/testing only - This change cannot cause any failures in production.

How will you know if something goes wrong after this change is released?

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Are there any special considerations for merging or releasing this change?

• No special considerations - This change can be merged at any time.

Merge / deployment checklist

• Confirm this change is backwards compatible with existing workflows.
• Consider adding a changelog entry for this change.
• Confirm the readme and docs have been updated if necessary.