The QA image is now built by Portainer from this repository rather than by Gitea Actions. Deployed as a Git repository stack, "Pull and redeploy" pulls the repo, builds from the Dockerfile, and recreates the containers in one action. This removes the runner from the loop entirely. Three dispatches failed without ever building: the runner refuses privileged containers, so the dind service was never created. Working around that needed either the host Docker socket mounted into the runner or privileged containers enabled runner-wide, and both hand every workflow on every branch root-equivalent control of the NAS, production included. Portainer already holds the socket — that is how it manages containers — so building there needs no new privilege at all. pull_policy: build is what keeps it honest. Without it the stack reuses whatever is tagged redefined-designs:qa, which is exactly how a redeploy appears to succeed while still serving old code — a failure this project has already hit twice. Deleting qa-build.yml also drops the registry, the REGISTRY_TOKEN and BREVO_API_KEY secrets, and the notification email. The email existed because CI worked asynchronously and had to tell you when it finished; redeploying from Portainer is synchronous, so the browser already does. Losing the per-commit image tags is a real cost — rollback becomes "rebuild from the ref you want" rather than retagging a specific build. README changes for this are deliberately not in this commit: that file also carries uncommitted work of Thom's. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>