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+  <a href="https://github.com/decimozs/regtrace/actions/workflows/ci.yml"><img src="https://github.com/decimozs/regtrace/actions/workflows/ci.yml/badge.svg" alt="CI"></a>
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 LLM quality degrades silently. A prompt change, a model update, a new feature — any of it can quietly break outputs that used to work.