Gating Check

What is Gating Check?

A gating check is any mandatory condition a change must satisfy to advance—tests passing, coverage above a threshold, no critical security findings, a green smoke run. If the check fails, the pipeline stops and the change is blocked from merging or deploying. Gating checks are how teams enforce quality automatically instead of relying on discipline alone. Because they hold up delivery, they must be fast and deterministic; a flaky gating check either blocks good work or gets disabled, defeating its purpose.