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CI Quality Gates Playbook

How to design build gates that protect release confidence without slowing teams down.

Core idea

A gate is useful only when it reduces real production risk.

Gate design pattern

  • Gate 1: fast lint and unit checks for quick feedback.
  • Gate 2: targeted integration checks for changed components.
  • Gate 3: nightly broad validations with trend reporting.

Decision model

If a check has a high false-positive rate, tune it before enforcing it as a hard gate.