[no touchie, please] CRAFT-2200- feat(chromatic): add to CI - got a day left to experiment. let's do this!

[valoriecarli]

1.) configs only - open pr - expect chromatic build to skip. Result? ✅ ae0e4e0

• The paths filter at the event level prevents the workflow from being queued entirely. It doesn't appear in the Actions tab as skipped at all.

2.) +4 scoped files to kick off Chromatic - draft pr - expect chromatic build to skip. Result? ✅ b814baa

3.) toggled draft to open - expect chromatic to automagically run. Result? ✅ ( no associated commit)

4.) added non-ui file change - expect chromatic not to run, but my feels tell me it will. Result? 🔴 577e0eb
**As is GH evaluates the full PR diff — not just the latest push. Since this PR has UI files in its history, every push will trigger Chromatic via the synchronize event.

5.) relates to ☝🏻. added tj-actions/changed-files to detect ONLY commits (on same branch) with ui-changes.- open pr - expect Chromatic to skip. Result? 3d5a437 & 10a1871.. eventually ✅

6.) added comment in ui file - open pr - expect Chromatic to run. Results? ✅ e436fc2

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