Well! I would **LOVE** to explain WTF I was thinking when I crafted such a obscure name :smile: The primary and most important work done by Cirrus-CI on this repo. is the big "Integration + System testing matrix". In other words, if any of them fail, nearly all other test results can be ignored. So "Special" in this case simply denotes automation which is operating on something other than the primary concern. A different (named) mode of operation (they're all documented) if you will. Note: In a perfect world, we would have these "special" tasks depend on the primary integration/system tasks. However, that would badly hurt overall runtime, so we do the "special" stuff in parallel. hope that helps.