Comment on #20899 Invoking pants in CI Discussion answered by benjyw I think there is precedent for this in Pants's own CI, e.g., https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/blob/73d41b4c9935d18a2aa94c3bff6d8f99e0cc0dcb/src/python/pants_release/release.py However note that you do lose the advantage of pantsd on that inner invocation. pantsbuild/pants