autoformatter and autofix linter results can be committed and pushed by CI into the PR branch itself. this is a pain sometimes, but as a repo owner it should protect your sanity.

Yep. Nothing I hate more than some trivial formatting error that could easily fix itself halting CI. I am all for consistent formatting and linting, I just think it should be silently handled without fuss.

I just add a check workflow that test that the files are well formatted and linted. If it passes, one of the key things I check are changes to the configuration. Some tools allows for bypass comments, so I keep an eye out for those too.