# Check time that catches nothing

Prompt · Infrastructure and environment · I03

Finds paid automated-check minutes spent on checks that never catch anything.

## Prompt

```text
Analyze CI and deployment costs against actual failures detected. Find repeated work, redundant checks, and expensive jobs that contribute little incremental confidence.
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**What it returns:** Per job: run count, minutes, failures that were real bugs, and what else would have caught them.

**Skip it when:** When the bills for automated checks are small and runs are fast.

**Tools:** GitHub Actions run history via gh.

**Changes:** Changes nothing

**Sessions:** One session

## Related

- [Risk from outside packages](https://www.atlasscope.dev/prompts/risk-from-outside-packages): Checks what a harmful outside package or pull request could reach.

Source: https://www.atlasscope.dev/prompts/check-time-that-catches-nothing