diff --git a/.woodpecker.yml b/.woodpecker.yml
index 4c7e49d..2b3deb2 100644
--- a/.woodpecker.yml
+++ b/.woodpecker.yml
@@ -11,19 +11,20 @@ steps:
         gcloud secrets versions access latest --secret=STAGING_KNOWN_HOSTS --project=aptivaai-dev | base64 -d > ~/.ssh/known_hosts
         chmod 644 ~/.ssh/known_hosts
 
-        # Inject SSH key for staging push
+        # Inject SSH key
         gcloud secrets versions access latest --secret=STAGING_SSH_KEY --project=aptivaai-dev | base64 -d > ~/.ssh/id_ed25519
         chmod 600 ~/.ssh/id_ed25519
 
-        # Verify injected key (optional)
-        echo "Key size: $(wc -c < ~/.ssh/id_ed25519) bytes"
-        head -n 2 ~/.ssh/id_ed25519
+        # Confirm working tree location
+        SRC_DIR="$PWD/repo"  # Assuming you cloned to ./repo
+        DEST_DIR="/home/jcoakley/dev1"  # Confirm if this is correct on staging
 
-        # Pull latest master from origin
+        # Clone dev1 repo
         git config --global user.name "Woodpecker CI"
         git config --global user.email "ci@aptivaai.com"
         git clone https://jcoakley:f4bf7ac91bdbd16bf47d241860198ba0bbe4b5c6@gitea.dev1.aptivaai.com/jcoakley/dev1.git repo
-        cd repo
 
-        # Push to staging remote over SSH
-        GIT_SSH_COMMAND="ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_ed25519 -o StrictHostKeyChecking=yes" git push staging master --force
+        # Rsync to staging VM
+        rsync -az --delete -e "ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_ed25519 -o StrictHostKeyChecking=yes" \
+          --exclude '.git' \
+          "$SRC_DIR/" jcoakley@10.128.0.12:"$DEST_DIR"