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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

.github/workflows/quality-gate.yml

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+name: Quality gate
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - main
+      - 'release/**'
+      - 'feature/**'
+  pull_request:
+    branches:
+      - main
+      - 'release/**'
+      - 'feature/**'
+    types: [ opened, synchronize, reopened ]
+
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+jobs:
+  quality-gate:
+    uses: Aignosi/github_workflow_templates/.github/workflows/python-quality-gate.yml@main
+    permissions:
+      contents: read
+      pull-requests: write
+      issues: write
+    with:
+      project_name: 'laborious'
+      repositories: 'sientia-dataops-library, sientia-mlops-library'
+      requirements_file: 'requirements-light.txt'
+    secrets: inherit

.github/workflows/release.yml

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+name: Create Release on Merge to Main
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    types: [closed]
+    branches:
+      - main
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      version:
+        description: 'Version to release'
+        required: false
+        type: string
+
+jobs:
+  release:
+    if: |
+      (github.event_name == 'pull_request' && github.event.pull_request.merged == true) ||
+      github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch'
+    uses: Aignosi/github_workflow_templates/.github/workflows/dataops-module-release.yml@main
+    permissions: write-all
+    with:
+      project_name: 'laborious'
+      release_version: ${{ github.event.inputs.version || '' }}
+    secrets: inherit