Add CI job dependency ordering guard test

Co-authored-by: Shri Sukhani <shrisukhani@users.noreply.github.com>

Author: cursoragent

tests/test_ci_workflow_quality_gates.py

@@ -20,3 +20,10 @@ def test_ci_workflow_uses_make_targets_for_quality_gates():
     assert "run: make compile" in ci_workflow
     assert "run: make test" in ci_workflow
     assert "run: make build" in ci_workflow
+
+
+def test_ci_workflow_job_dependencies_enforce_stage_order():
+    ci_workflow = Path(".github/workflows/ci.yml").read_text(encoding="utf-8")
+
+    assert "lint-test:\n    needs: architecture-guards" in ci_workflow
+    assert "build:\n    needs: lint-test" in ci_workflow