When integrating new testing or analysis tools into CI pipelines, use graceful failure patterns during initial adoption phases to prevent breaking existing workflows. Add tools as development dependencies and allow them to fail without blocking builds using || true until they are stable and properly configured.
This approach allows teams to experiment with new testing tools without disrupting the development workflow. Once the tools are properly configured and any initial issues are resolved, the || true can be removed to enforce the checks.
Example implementation:
- name: Run new analysis tool
run: |
cd api
uv add --dev new-tool
uv run new-tool check || true
This pattern is particularly useful when introducing type checkers, linters, or other code analysis tools that may initially produce many findings on existing codebases.
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