[cdalar]

Two fixes that keep docs-only PRs (and main) from being stuck.

1. Required checks on docs-only changes. Build (stable) and Lint are required on main, but both workflows had paths-ignore: docs/**. A docs-only PR therefore never got those checks and stayed blocked by branch protection; #1157 is stuck that way now. This PR removes the filter from build.yml and lint.yml.

2. main's build has been red since 2026-10-02, from an order-dependent test.

• Cause: withViper, in cmd/root_provider_test.go, restored a key with viper.Set(key, orig). That leaves a permanent override in viper's highest-priority layer.
• Effect: under -shuffle=on, when a root_provider test runs before TestCreateFlagsBindToViper, --fc-binary can no longer change fc.binPath, and the test fails.
• Fix: the cleanup now does viper.Set(key, nil). Viper skips a nil override and falls through to flags, config and defaults.
• Verified locally: an empty HOME (as on CI) with -shuffle seeds 1–12; seeds 3 and 6 failed before the fix and pass now. The full go test -race -shuffle=on ./... is clean.

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[cdalar]

Build (stable) failed in Go Test: cmd.TestCreateFlagsBindToViper (cmd/flags_defaults_test.go:96, "override for fc.binPath": expected /usr/local/bin/firecracker, got firecracker). This PR only changes workflow files, so the failure isn't from this diff:

• The same job also failed on main at the base commit 2bdf4a8 (run 36981624285). I haven't confirmed that run failed on the same test.
• The test passes when run on its own here (go test ./cmd -run TestCreateFlagsBindToViper). That points to an order- or state-dependent test rather than a problem with this change.

No fix exists yet, and I'm not widening this PR to touch the test. I've re-run the failed job once. If it fails again, the test needs fixing on main first. Auto-merge stays enabled and will fire once the required checks pass.

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✅ All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests.
✅ Project coverage is 36.89%. Comparing base (194292d) to head (e992466).
⚠️ Report is 3 commits behind head on main.

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