During August 2025, Newton focused on reliability hardening and CI stability for the sched-ext/scx repository. He addressed two critical bugs by improving the CI workflow, ensuring that test execution in virtual machines completed before the process exited, which reduced silent failures and increased test accuracy. Using Bash and Python, Newton enhanced script robustness by introducing strict error handling with 'set -euo pipefail', catching uninitialized variables and failed pipelines. His work strengthened the maintainability and observability of the CI and scripting layers, laying a more stable foundation for future features and enabling faster, more trustworthy releases through improved testing practices.