iosTest needs a booted simulator, and CI does not have one by default
The native test binary runs on a device, so a missing simulator reads like a toolchain problem.
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What act can reproduce, and what it silently cannot
Local workflow runners reproduce containerised jobs faithfully and host jobs not at all. Skip-and-warn is the only honest handling of the gap.
A number in CI is the only budget that holds
A budget that lives in a shared understanding has already moved. A baseline works because changing it leaves a reviewable diff with somebody's name on it.
Setting a secret on the repo is how it stops having an owner
A repo-side secret has no owner, no rotation path and no inventory. One vault, propagation outward, and a guard that refuses the paste.
Forty-five minutes per CI guess is not a feedback loop
Reproducing a failing CI job locally turns a 45-minute guess into a 2-minute iteration. What runs locally, what cannot, and why faking the rest is worse.
Running an AI agent in CI without it spending your budget
An agent in CI cannot be asked a question. Budget caps that actually throw, local reproduction before pushing, and the gate that degraded instead of failing.