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Agent CI/CD

Reviewed 19 July 2026 Canonical definition Part of: Agent Reliability & Deployment Terms →

Agent CI/CD is the practice of applying continuous integration and continuous delivery principles to AI agent development: automatically testing agents on every change, gating production releases on evaluation results, and automating deployment pipelines for agent code, prompts, and configuration. It brings the reliability practices of software engineering to agent lifecycle management.

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What is Agent CI/CD?

Agent CI/CD is the practice of applying continuous integration and continuous delivery principles to AI agent development: automatically testing agents on every change, gating production releases on evaluation results, and automating deployment pipelines for agent code, prompts, and configuration.

How does Agent CI/CD work?

It brings the reliability practices of software engineering to agent lifecycle management.

Which terms are related to Agent CI/CD?

Closely related concepts include CI/CD for AI, GitOps (Agent), Shadow Testing (Agent), Shared Services (AI). Each is defined in the Prefactor glossary.

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