Release Readiness
Release Readiness combines readiness checks, canonical truth reports, package safety, and explicit approval gates so release work can be prepared locally without pretending the irreversible step already happened.
What exists today
Canonical readiness reports, package safety dogfood, naming checks, build gates, and manual release boundaries already exist in the current repo. They can prove local readiness state and stop unsafe transitions.
Claim boundary
Release Readiness does not deploy production and does not push or merge protected branches. It prepares evidence and blocks unsafe movement until a human explicitly approves the irreversible step.
What it does not do
It does not auto-publish, auto-deploy, or auto-announce a release. Any copy implying autonomous production execution would be an overclaim against the current canonical system.