Merge Queue Operations

Agents need explicit escalation rules to avoid flooding merge queues with retries.

Merge queue performance now has measurable levers that most teams have never instrumented.

Merge queue failures cascade differently than branch failures and require triage before alerting.

Flaky tests in merge queues cascade across dozens of PRs at once, not just fail in isolation.

Agents writing code in parallel need merge queues built for machine-speed concurrency.