During January 2025, Courcol focused on enhancing the test infrastructure for the openbraininstitute/entitycore repository. They improved the quality and maintainability of the Python-based test suite by implementing comprehensive linting across test files and refactoring type-checking assertions for better readability. Courcol also addressed test reliability by safely commenting out unused data retrieval, which reduced test flakiness without altering the core test logic. Their work centered on code quality and testing, resulting in a more stable and future-ready continuous integration pipeline. While no production features or bug fixes were released, the depth of these improvements strengthened the project’s long-term maintainability.