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checking-release-readiness

Records a ship, block, defer, or ship-with-risk decision that ties baseline, evidence status, residual risk, rollback, monitoring, and handoff together. Use when a packet, PR, release, dependency change, or agent-authority change approaches merge. Do not use early in development before evidence exists.

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# Checking Release Readiness

## Overview

Release readiness is a careful, audited decision you write down. It is not a mood. It ties seven things together before a candidate becomes the accepted version: the baseline (the version everyone agreed is correct), the evidence status, the leftover risk, the rollback plan, the monitoring plan, the handoff, and the release decision itself.

## Decision contract

- **Claim checked:** the candidate has evidence, visible custody and coupling, rollback, monitoring, and residual risk that is accepted or made a blocker; for trust-bearing work the declared coupling profile meets the consequence-specific minimum.
- **Artifact observed:** `verification.md`/`trace.md` statuses and CI status -> the decision recorded in `ship.md`.
- **Decision affected:** block -- the `ship.md` ship/block/defer/ship-with-risk release decision.
- **Failure class:** unevidenced-or-unsafe-release (a gap or missing rollback treated as shippable).
- **Next action:** block the release; record the gap, its owner, and a recheck trigger.