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Continue the job even if a step fails.

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Section: Jobs, steps, and conditionals

Allow a non-blocking step

yaml
yaml
- name: Optional audit
  continue-on-error: true
  run: npm audit
Explanation

Useful for advisory checks that should not fail the pipeline yet.

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