The free windows-11-arm and macos-15-intel lanes already set the matrix's wall
time; the paid 8-vCPU Blacksmith Windows lane finished minutes earlier for ~$48/day.
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* ci: move routine checks and unsigned builds to Blacksmith
* ci: retain GitHub Mac images for isolated SSH fixtures
* ci: keep shared terminal perf preparation on Blacksmith
* test: allow encrypted slow-link fixture to finish on ARM CI
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* perf(ci): accelerate adhoc release builds and runner scheduling
* Overlap adhoc release preparation and reuse qualified build inputs
* Bind qualified template reuse to its embedded CLI source commit
* Use the available CPUs for native compilation in fast dev builds
* Verify qualified template cache provenance and daily invalidation
* Avoid incremental MSBuild tracking for fresh fast-release builds
* Right-size Intel macOS and Windows ARM release qualification
* Route Intel qualification through the standard larger macOS label
* Overlap Windows preparation and initialize the server native compiler once
* Test server compiler invocation through its process-runner interface
* Align adhoc signing contract with its larger packaging runner
* Recognize the native cache fingerprint as batch-file metadata