30  Release Gate Stack

31 Release Gate Stack

Working seal: stack://release-gate-stack/5798FD1FC7

Enter: Use when a change set is already built and the question is whether it is ready to ship.

31.1 Related Runes

• 1073 canary - A deliberately limited release whose job is to discover whether production reality agrees with the story told in staging.
• 1086 deploy - The crossing from forge to world. Many good ideas become bad facts only after they are actually shipped.
• 1146 benchmark - A performance claim forced to meet measurement. Benchmarks are where speed rhetoric either cashes out or dies.
• 1180 observability - Enough internal evidence exists that you can infer what the system is doing from the outside. Not logs alone: legible state under pressure.
• 0943 rollback {DB} - Permission to retreat toward a previously trusted state. A system without rollback mistakes hope for safety.

31.2 Related Spell Templates and References

• Bug Diagnosis From Logs
• Performance Tuning
• Stack Grammar
• Failure Modes
• Canon Map | Step | Spell | Artifact | Advance when | | —- | ——————- | ———————————————————— | ————————————————- | | 1 | Assemble candidate | Frozen release artifact and config | Candidate is exact | | 2 | Quality gate | Tests, static checks, scans, and prerequisites | Quality gate is green | | 3 | Stage deploy | Staging or canary deployment | Limited environment is live | | 4 | Observe | Metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and critical-flow results | Signals remain green | | 5 | Promote or rollback | Release decision | Broad release happens only if guard remains green |

31.3 On Fail

Rollback the candidate and open a repair stack instead of arguing from hope.

31.4 Why It Works

It resists shipping by narrative alone.

31.5 Dogfood Record

This repository uses the release-gate shape through the Publish Quarto Site workflow. The generated run record is stored at examples/release-gate/release-gate-stack-run.json.