Worked on stabilizing the build pipeline for the fossas/fossa-cli repository by addressing a critical issue with vendor-provided binaries. Focused on Shell scripting and DevOps practices, the developer implemented a strict smoke-test to ensure the ficus binary runs correctly within the build environment, catching compatibility issues early in the continuous integration process. This approach eliminated silent failure modes in the version-check logic, enforcing hard failures when binaries could not load and preventing runtime errors from surfacing downstream. By improving the reliability of embedded binaries, the work reduced release risk and increased confidence for both the fossa-cli project and its consumers.