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AI Development

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Introducing Chunk sidecars: Inner loop validation that keeps up with your agents

5 min read

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Agentic validation needs different infrastructure

11 min read

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Rebuilding the CircleCI CLI from scratch

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CircleCI News

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Introducing CircleCI Functions: Reusable CI steps built for coding agents

6 min read

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A faster, more reliable GitHub Actions alternative: Run Actions on CircleCI

8 min read

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CircleCI is now available on Cursor Origin

4 min read

Engineering Productivity

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Git worktrees: How to work on multiple branches at once

14 min read

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Stacked PRs: what they are and how to run CI on a stack

11 min read

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Cirrus CI alternative: Scalable, AI-ready CI/CD

6 min read

Security

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A comprehensive guide to container security

8 min read

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DAST: A guide to dynamic application security testing

7 min read

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Zero trust security for CI/CD pipelines

7 min read

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