From 449d4fe82ccfc8fa3242d833a18f501ec86dfb61 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jamison Lahman <jamison@lahman.dev>
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2026 22:25:12 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] ci: skip local preview builds for merge-queue branches
 (#14216)

Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 .github/workflows/local-preview.yml | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/local-preview.yml b/.github/workflows/local-preview.yml
index f560d72ad1..53d8fc042a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/local-preview.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/local-preview.yml
@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@ on:
   push:
     branches-ignore:
       - main
+      # The merge queue pushes to these short-lived branches on its way to
+      # main. Their commits are about to land there anyway, and the deploy
+      # would only hold a server slot a real branch could use.
+      - "gh-readonly-queue/**"
     paths:
       - "web/**"
       - "backend/**"