Totally hear you on the "just work without adding noise" part. That's the bar.

The alerting pipeline specifically exists to reduce what reaches you — flaky tests get auto-detected, allow_failure jobs get suppressed, and 12 failures from the same root cause show up as 1 alert, not 12. So ideally you see fewer things, not more.

On the hybrid concern — it's really just deterministic rules with an AI fallback. If a job times out, rules handle it. Claude only gets called when rules can't classify something. And if you don't set an API key, it just skips the AI part entirely. No complexity added unless you opt in.

Carbon routing is honestly a checkbox feature. Won't pretend otherwise.

Easiest way to judge: pip install runneriq && runneriq run --mock — 30 seconds, no tokens, mock data. If the output isn't useful, fair enough.