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# CodeWhale Review Pipeline

Welcome to CodeWhale! We receive a high volume of community PRs. To ensure a smooth and fast review process, please review our pipeline expectations below.

## 1. CI Gates (Pre-Review Checklist)

Before a maintainer reviews your PR, it must pass our continuous integration (CI) checks.

**Required Checks (Must Pass):**

Please run these locally before pushing your code to avoid CI failures:

* **Format:** cargo fmt --all -- --check

* **Linting:** cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --all-features

* **Tests:** cargo test --workspace --all-features --locked

**Informational Checks:**

Checks from **Greptile** and **GitGuardian** are informational. If they flag something, review it, but they do not strictly block a review on their own unless a secret is leaked.

## 2. Common Failure Modes & Local Fixes

If CI fails, it is usually one of these three reasons:

* **Version Drift (Cargo.lock out of date):** Run cargo update or cargo build locally to update the lockfile and commit the changes.

* **Lint Failures:** Check the clippy warnings from the command above and fix the specific lines flagged.

* **Windows Test Flakiness:** Occasionally, tests may time out on Windows runners. If you are confident your code didn't break it, leave a comment asking a maintainer to re-trigger the CI.

## 3. PR Etiquette

To help us review your code quickly, please adhere to the following:

* **One Concern Per PR:** Keep diffs highly focused. Do not mix refactoring with new feature additions.

* **Link the Issue:** Always include Closes #N (replace N with the issue number) in your PR description so GitHub automatically links them.

* **Rebase:** Always rebase your branch onto the latest main branch before requesting a review.

## 4. The Review Workflow

Once CI is green, your PR enters the review queue.

* **Who reviews:** Core maintainers will review the PR.

* **autonomous-ready Label:** If a maintainer applies this label, it means the PR is approved in concept and is queued for our automated integration system.

* **The Nightly Loop:** We run extensive integration loops overnight. If your PR is approved, it may wait for this nightly loop before final merging to ensure system stability.

## 5. Post-Merge Actions

After your code is merged, the following automated actions occur:

* CHANGELOG.md is updated.

* npm wrappers are synced.

* Binary rebuilds are triggered for all platforms.

* Website and documentation are synced with your new changes.

Thank you for contributing to CodeWhale!