GitHub's GraphQL author field is null when the account behind a
comment, review, PR, or issue has been deleted (the ghost user). The
action typed author as non-null and read author.login directly, so a
single comment from a deleted account threw and was swallowed into a
generic 'Failed to fetch PR/issue data', failing the entire run.
Make author nullable on the four affected types and fall back to
'ghost' at each login read. With the type nullable, tsc flags every
dereference, so all sites are covered.
A scoped label like area:permissions was substituted into the branch
name verbatim, producing a ":" that validateBranchName rejects. Because
the branch setup block catches that error and calls process.exit(1), the
whole run died. {{description}} was already sanitized via extractDescription;
{{label}} was the only free-text variable that skipped it.
Add a sanitizeLabel helper (replaces invalid-char runs with a hyphen so
scoped labels stay readable) and apply it before substitution, falling back
to entityType when a label sanitizes to empty. Adds regression tests that
also assert the result passes validateBranchName.
