Create Dependabot Auto Approval Workflow (#1418)

* Create dependabot-auto-approve.yml

* Refine Dependabot auto-approve workflow configuration

* Update Dependabot fetch-metadata and auto-approve-action versions

* Refactor auto-approve workflow conditions for Dependabot updates

* chore: empty commit

Author: Thomas-Boyle

.github/workflows/dependabot-auto-approve.yml

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+name: Dependabot Auto-Approve
+
+on:
+  pull_request_target:
+    types: [opened, reopened, synchronize]
+
+permissions:
+  pull-requests: write
+
+jobs:
+  auto-approve:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Fetch Dependabot metadata
+        id: metadata
+        continue-on-error: true
+        uses: dependabot/fetch-metadata@21025c705c08248db411dc16f3619e6b5f9ea21a
+
+      - name: Auto-approve minor and patch updates
+        if: steps.metadata.outcome == 'success' && contains(fromJSON('["version-update:semver-minor", "version-update:semver-patch"]'), steps.metadata.outputs.update-type)
+        uses: hmarr/auto-approve-action@f0939ea97e9205ef24d872e76833fa908a770363
+        with:
+          github-token: ${{ github.token }}