ci: cancel-in-progress + paths-ignore to save GH Actions minutes [skip ci]

Same pattern as api + worker. See InstaNode-dev/api commit for full
rationale. The two changes match across all 3 backend repos.

[skip ci] honored — no Deploy or CI run fires for this commit.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: Manas Srivastava

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -3,8 +3,29 @@ name: CI
 on:
   push:
     branches: [master]
+    # CI-minute savings (2026-05-21): skip CI on docs-only commits.
+    paths-ignore:
+      - '**.md'
+      - 'docs/**'
+      - 'CLAUDE.md'
+      - '.gitignore'
+      - 'LICENSE'
+      - 'BUGBASH-*/**'
   pull_request:
     branches: [master]
+    paths-ignore:
+      - '**.md'
+      - 'docs/**'
+      - 'CLAUDE.md'
+      - '.gitignore'
+      - 'LICENSE'
+      - 'BUGBASH-*/**'
+
+concurrency:
+  # CI-minute savings (2026-05-21): cancel prior in-flight CI for the same
+  # branch/PR when a new commit lands.
+  group: ci-${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
 
 jobs:
   # Stale-green guard. A PR can show a green CI run that was executed BEFORE a

.github/workflows/deploy.yml

@@ -32,11 +32,21 @@ name: Deploy
 on:
   push:
     branches: [master]
+    # CI-minute savings (2026-05-21): skip Deploy on docs-only commits.
+    paths-ignore:
+      - '**.md'
+      - 'docs/**'
+      - 'CLAUDE.md'
+      - '.gitignore'
+      - 'LICENSE'
+      - 'BUGBASH-*/**'
   workflow_dispatch:
 
 concurrency:
-  group: deploy-${{ github.workflow }}
-  cancel-in-progress: false
+  # CI-minute savings (2026-05-21): cancel prior in-flight Deploy when a
+  # newer commit lands on the same branch.
+  group: deploy-${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
 
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