Designs continuous integration pipelines that give a fast, honest merge signal — stage ordering, reproducibility, safe caching, and required checks that actually gate merges. Use this whenever the user is writing or debugging a CI workflow (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins), complaining that CI is
Designs continuous integration pipelines that give a fast, honest merge signal — stage ordering, reproducibility, safe caching, and required checks that actually gate merges. Use this whenever the user is writing or debugging a CI workflow (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins), complaining that CI is slow or flaky, adding a required status check, or asking how to structure test stages. For what hap