AI-Augmented CI/CD Pipelines: From Code Commit to Production with Autonomous Decisions

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Main Authors: Baqar, Mohammad, Naqvi, Saba, Khanda, Rajat
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Published: 2025
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author Baqar, Mohammad
Naqvi, Saba
Khanda, Rajat
author_facet Baqar, Mohammad
Naqvi, Saba
Khanda, Rajat
contents Modern software delivery has accelerated from quarterly releases to multiple deployments per day. While CI/CD tooling has matured, human decision points interpreting flaky tests, choosing rollback strategies, tuning feature flags, and deciding when to promote a canary remain major sources of latency and operational toil. We propose AI-Augmented CI/CD Pipelines, where large language models (LLMs) and autonomous agents act as policy-bounded co-pilots and progressively as decision makers. We contribute: (1) a reference architecture for embedding agentic decision points into CI/CD, (2) a decision taxonomy and policy-as-code guardrail pattern, (3) a trust-tier framework for staged autonomy, (4) an evaluation methodology using DevOps Research and Assessment ( DORA) metrics and AI-specific indicators, and (5) a detailed industrial-style case study migrating a React 19 microservice to an AI-augmented pipeline. We discuss ethics, verification, auditability, and threats to validity, and chart a roadmap for verifiable autonomy in production delivery systems.
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spellingShingle AI-Augmented CI/CD Pipelines: From Code Commit to Production with Autonomous Decisions
Baqar, Mohammad
Naqvi, Saba
Khanda, Rajat
Software Engineering
Artificial Intelligence
Modern software delivery has accelerated from quarterly releases to multiple deployments per day. While CI/CD tooling has matured, human decision points interpreting flaky tests, choosing rollback strategies, tuning feature flags, and deciding when to promote a canary remain major sources of latency and operational toil. We propose AI-Augmented CI/CD Pipelines, where large language models (LLMs) and autonomous agents act as policy-bounded co-pilots and progressively as decision makers. We contribute: (1) a reference architecture for embedding agentic decision points into CI/CD, (2) a decision taxonomy and policy-as-code guardrail pattern, (3) a trust-tier framework for staged autonomy, (4) an evaluation methodology using DevOps Research and Assessment ( DORA) metrics and AI-specific indicators, and (5) a detailed industrial-style case study migrating a React 19 microservice to an AI-augmented pipeline. We discuss ethics, verification, auditability, and threats to validity, and chart a roadmap for verifiable autonomy in production delivery systems.
title AI-Augmented CI/CD Pipelines: From Code Commit to Production with Autonomous Decisions
topic Software Engineering
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11867