[FE] Confirm every edit to a competency criterion or criteria group #785

This section is background and a suggested approach, not the ticket's source of truth. The User Story and Acceptance Criteria define what must be true when the work is done.

In short

Why the warning is unconditional. It appears on every criterion and group edit, not only when learner statuses already exist. Product chose that deliberately: a dialog that appears only sometimes trains authors to expect saves to be silent and then surprises them, and the frontend would need to know whether any learner had been evaluated in order to decide, which is information it does not have on this screen.

What the wording has to be true about. An edit changes future evaluations only. It never rewrites a status a learner already earned, and it never removes anything. That is the whole content of the message, and it is why this dialog is worded differently from the delete confirmation in #786.

The two edit surfaces, confirmed against the actual Competency Management UI (not assumed): a criterion's rule threshold (operator and percentage, in the "Competency Completion Rule" panel under a course/content association) and a criteria group's combining logic (the "any"/"all" dropdown). These are two different controls, not one shared save path, so each one opens the confirmation in its own way, as described below.

Take the wording from the design spike rather than this ticket. The starting text is a draft that #775 refines, along with the responsive and accessible behavior. Do not treat the sample copy in the spike as final without checking what #775 concluded.

How each edit surface opens the confirmation, per #775. Both surfaces apply a change as soon as it is made today, so there is no save step to intercept. #775 adds one where it is needed. The score popover gets Cancel and Save buttons, and Save opens the confirmation; the author's edits stay in the popover until they confirm or cancel. The any/all dropdown has no separate save step, so choosing a new value opens the confirmation right away. Cancelling that confirmation switches the dropdown back to its previous value, because a dropdown has no unsaved edit to keep on screen.

Implementation specifics

• Gate the score popover's Save and the any/all dropdown's change. Add Cancel and Save buttons to the score popover, let the author edit the threshold freely, and open the confirmation from Save. For the dropdown, hold the newly chosen value as pending and open the confirmation; send the update only when the author confirms.
• Use the dialog [UXD Spike] Confirmation dialogs for competency criteria edits and deletes #775 specifies, including its final wording, button labels, focus behavior, and small-screen layout. If [UXD Spike] Confirmation dialogs for competency criteria edits and deletes #775 has not landed, block on it rather than inventing copy: the wording is the substance of this ticket.
• Reuse the project's existing modal component rather than building one, so focus trapping and screen-reader announcement come for free and match the rest of the authoring frontend.
• What cancelling does depends on the surface. In the score popover, cancelling the confirmation preserves the popover's form state: do not reset the form, refetch, or navigate away. For the any/all dropdown, cancelling restores the value it had before the author's choice.
• Show the confirmation for both record types, a criterion and a criteria group, from whatever edit surfaces exist for each.
• Do not condition it on learner status. No extra request to find out whether anyone has been evaluated; the dialog is unconditional.
• Surface a save failure to the author and leave their edits on screen. Do not close the dialog on failure in a way that loses the change.
• Tests: Save in the score popover shows the dialog and does not save; choosing a new any/all value shows the dialog and does not save; confirming saves; cancelling after the popover's Save does not save and keeps the edits in the popover; cancelling after an any/all change does not save and restores the previous value; both record types show it; a criterion with no learner status still shows it; a failed save reports the failure and keeps the edits; focus moves into the dialog and it is keyboard dismissible.
• Out of scope: the delete confirmation for an association ([FE] Confirm every deletion of a tag association from the Competency Management page #786), the design itself ([UXD Spike] Confirmation dialogs for competency criteria edits and deletes #775), the backend update endpoints, which [BE] Update/Edit Competency Criteria #759 and [BE] Update/Edit Competency Criteria Group #760 provide, and any change to what an edit does server-side.
• Context [UXD Spike] Confirmation dialogs for competency criteria edits and deletes #775 is the design spike that produces this dialog's wording, responsive behavior, and accessible behavior.
• The approved implementation approach on [Arch] Implementation approach for competency data delete/edit guardrails #655, for the decision that edit warnings are unconditional and that tag and taxonomy edits get none.
• [BE] Update/Edit Competency Criteria #759 and [BE] Update/Edit Competency Criteria Group #760 provide the update endpoints this gates.
• .claude/frontend-app-authoring-architecture-overview.md for the authoring frontend's conventions and existing modal patterns.