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✅ PR #154794 is compliant with backport policy

Confidence: high
Backward compatible: true
Explanation: This pull request is compliant with the backport policy for several reasons. Firstly, the PR falls under non-production code changes since it modifies a GitHub Actions workflow file (.github/workflows/github-actions-essential-ci.yml), which is a part of CI configuration and thus considered development infrastructure rather than production code. Additionally, the PR body includes a 'Release justification:' line stating 'Non-production code changes'. This explicitly points out that the changes are meant for non-production purposes, satisfying the exemption criteria set in the policy for such scenarios.

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