Glossary · AI-native development
Reproducible Build
A build whose declared source, environment, and instructions can be independently rerun to produce bit-for-bit identical specified artifacts.
Why it matters
It makes an artifact verifiable beyond the machine or agent that originally produced it and exposes hidden build inputs.
In practice
Pin toolchains and dependencies, remove timestamps and unstable ordering, capture the environment, then compare independently rebuilt artifact digests.
Common confusion
A build that succeeds twice is repeatable evidence, but reproducibility requires the declared independent conditions and identical outputs.
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