Every pull request must run linting and the test suite, and merging must be blocked when they fail.
Unverified code reaches the main branch, letting regressions and style drift ship to production.
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Required status checks are the gate that keeps broken code out of the trunk. If lint and tests don't run on every PR — or if merge isn't blocked on their failure — regressions slip in silently and the green build becomes meaningless.
Bad
# CI only runs on push to main, after merge
on: { push: { branches: [main] } }Good
on: { pull_request: {} }
# + branch protection: require status checks to pass before merge
jobs:
check: { steps: [{ run: "npm run lint" }, { run: "npm test" }] }