ci-cd-and-automation

# CI/CD and Automation ## Overview Automate quality gates so that no change reaches production without passing tests, lint, type checking, and build. CI/CD is the enforcement mechanism for every other skill — it catches what humans and agents miss, and it does so consistently on every single change. **Shift Left:** Catch problems as early in the pipeline as possible. A bug caught in linting costs minutes; the same bug caught in production costs hours. Move checks upstream — static analysis before tests, tests before staging, staging before production. **Faster is Safer:** Smaller batches and more frequent releases reduce risk, not increase it. A deployment with 3 changes is easier to debug than one with 30. Frequent releases build confidence in the release process itself. ## When to Use - Setting up a new project's CI pipeline - Adding or modifying automated checks - Configuring deployment pipelines - When a change should trigger automated verification - Debugging CI failures ## The Quality Gate Pipeline Every change goes through these gates before merge: ``` Pull Request Opened │ ▼ ┌─────────────────┐ │ LINT CHECK │ eslint, prettier │ ↓ pass │ │ TYPE CHECK │ tsc --noEmit │ ↓ pass │ │ UNIT TESTS │ jest/vitest │ ↓ pass │ │ BUILD │ npm run build │ ↓ pass │ │ INTEGRATION │ API/DB tests │ ↓ pass │ │ E2E (optional) │ Playwright/Cypress │ ↓ pass │ │ SECURITY AUDI...