{
  "$comment": "RFC-0031. Covers the step between build (ends at merge, G2.1) and operate (starts at instrument). Its gates are G3 and G3.1: the whole number places the loop in the lifecycle (discover G0 through operate G4), and a decimal is a second gate inside the same loop (RFC-0044).",
  "name": "release",
  "version": "0.4.1",
  "description": "Take merged code to live users through a planned, reversible rollout — plan the phases and the rollback, judge readiness on evidence, draft the release notes, then a human makes the go/no-go call. Use when the user has merged a change and asks how to roll it out, whether they are ready to launch, or for a go/no-go decision.",
  "entrypoint": "LOOP.md",
  "kind": "loop",
  "cap": 3,
  "stages": [
    {
      "id": "plan",
      "type": "generate",
      "intent": "Decide the rollout phases, the rollback for each, and the one point of no return, before anything reaches users.",
      "skills": ["migration-plan", "rollout-plan"]
    },
    {
      "id": "ready",
      "type": "verify",
      "intent": "Judge on evidence whether the change can go live: rollback, detection, response, measured targets, data, comms, exposure.",
      "skills": ["launch-readiness"],
      "gate": {
        "id": "G3",
        "kind": "review",
        "verdicts": ["PROCEED", "PROCEED WITH CONDITIONS", "REVISE", "BLOCKED"],
        "revise_to": "plan"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "announce",
      "type": "generate",
      "intent": "Write what users and the team are told. Only after readiness, so nobody announces a launch that then fails the check.",
      "skills": ["release-notes"]
    },
    {
      "id": "go",
      "type": "gate",
      "intent": "A human decides whether it should ship now. Readiness says it can; this decides timing, freeze windows, and who is on call.",
      "skills": ["council-review"],
      "gate": {
        "id": "G3.1",
        "kind": "human",
        "verdicts": ["PROCEED", "PROCEED WITH CONDITIONS", "REVISE", "RECONSIDER", "BLOCKED"],
        "revise_to": "plan"
      }
    }
  ]
}