Introducing Chainguard Checks

Today, we are launching Chainguard Checks in Beta so developers and AI agents can test, fail, and fix code safely without waiting on slow CI. Checks turns CI into a fast pre-commit check, callable from anywhere. When used alongside Chainguard Workspaces, agents and developers can bring CI checks straight into their development loop, cutting wait times and speeding up delivery. At Chainguard, we operate thousands of autonomous AI agents alongside our human engineering team to continuously build, patch, and maintain software at scale. As part of that, our agents run in loops: writing code, running tests, and refining fixes based on feedback. Pushing every single agent iteration through traditional GitHub Actions queues broke our workflows. Wasted setup time and compute: Every pipeline run re-downloads the same packages and dependencies (e.g., apt-get, npm ci, go mod download) before a single test runs, burning unnecessary time and compute. Wasted setup time and compute: Every pipeline run re-downloads the same packages and…