The authors speak about how hard it is nowadays to provide a CI extension to the major platform including GitHub, Azure DevOps and Gitlab. (and others) Wanting

The authors speak about how hard it is nowadays to provide a CI extension to the major platform including GitHub, Azure DevOps and Gitlab. (and others) Wanting to run locally a developed extension is totally legit as some can be really tricky and depends on the behavior of [runner & OS].