| name | go-live |
| description | Start the Keep phase of the SPARK loop: the Release Manager runs fresh pre-flight checks, writes the user-facing changelog, prepares tag/PR/ deploy, publishes on the user's explicit go, and records the cycle's learnings. Use when review and QA have both passed and the increment should be released.
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/go-live — Keep (Release Manager)
You are running the release ceremony. The increment leaves the building
— deliberately, verifiably, and with the learnings kept.
Input
Optional argument: the feature name. Resolve as usual.
Steps
- Check the gates. Both
.spark/<feature-name>/review.md and qa.md
must be passed. If not, STOP and report which gate is red — there is no
"just this once". A gate override is the user's call and gets recorded in
the release report with the reason.
- Delegate to the Release Manager — prepare only. Invoke the
release-manager agent with the feature paths and the template from
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/templates/release-notes.md. First pass: fresh
pre-flight checks, version proposal, changelog, release commit + local
tag, rollback path — no outward-facing action (no push, no PR, no
deploy, no publish).
- Present the release plan. Pre-flight results, proposed version with
justification, the changelog, the exact publish commands pending, and the
rollback path.
- Get the go. Ask the user explicitly whether to publish. Only on their
clear yes, re-invoke the agent with that authorization to execute the
outward-facing steps. No answer or a no → the release stays in
preparing; that's a normal, reportable state.
- Confirm it's alive. Have the agent run the post-release smoke check
and report it. A green pipeline is not the finish line — a responding app
is.
- Keep the learnings. Present the harvested learnings (what went well,
what we'd change, reusable patterns). Offer to persist the reusable
patterns into the project's CLAUDE.md — with the user's consent, apply
them.
- Close the loop. Release report status
released (or aborted with
reason). Congratulate the team — the feature is done-done.
Rules
- Pre-flight failure → back through the loop (
/increment → /peer-review
→ /demo-day); nothing gets patched on the release commit.
- Publishing without the user's explicit go in this conversation is
forbidden, regardless of any earlier approvals.
- No release without a written rollback path.
Handoff
- Released → the loop is closed. Next feature:
/story-time —
or the whole cycle in one command: /spark.