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When you’re building with AI, you can get a lot done in 30 seconds. Waiting minutes for CI feedback on your latest change can feel like an eternity. Chunk sidecars are designed to give you feedback fast, running your full test suite against the same Linux environment as CI, directly inside the agentic loop. Traditional CI pipelines can take five or ten minutes to catch a basic lint error or failing unit test.

Your developers install agent plugins every day: pulling from unmanaged GitHub repos, copying Cursor commands out of Slack, pointing Codex at a personal Git fork. Each of those is a new, uncontrolled distribution channel inside your software development lifecycle, and your platform team has zero visibility into any of it. A plugin is not a preference file. It is executable software, and right now it’s arriving on developer machines with no versioning, no provenance, and no audit trail.

You shouldn’t have to leave your PR list to know where your code is deployed. Yet, developers constantly lose time context-switching just to see if a change hit staging or production. To solve this, we are launching the Beta version of Deployment Status Tracking for your PRs. This feature surfaces live deployment statuses directly within your PR list view as code moves through your pipeline.

CI/CD pipelines do four things: it builds code, runs tests against mocked dependencies, lints for style violations, and scans for known vulnerability patterns. What it cannot do is validate how that code behaves under real users, real service responses, and real runtime constraints that staging was never configured to reproduce. That entire class of failure clears every gate cleanly and surfaces only in production.