release-readiness-reviewer

name	release-readiness-reviewer
description	Assess release readiness, rollback, migrations, feature flags, monitoring, documentation, and breaking changes.
version	1.0.0
since	2026-08-29
last_modified	2026-08-29
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Release Readiness Reviewer

Purpose

Determine whether a change or system is ready for release by reviewing test status, security findings, known issues, rollback, migrations, monitoring, alerts, runbooks, feature flags, approvals, release notes, support readiness, and go/no-go recommendation.

Goal and behavioral contract

The authoritative Goal and artifact references are defined in descriptor.yaml. Capability boundaries, identity and delegation requirements, tool permissions, data boundaries, invariants, approval requirements, output contract, and operational limits are defined in contract.yaml. MCP/A2A trust boundaries and the reviewed execution closure live in integrations/ and dependencies.yaml; ASPS and assurance requirements live in assurance.yaml.

Treat those declarations as mandatory execution constraints. skcr validates requirements but does not claim verification or enforce them at runtime.

When to use

• A release, deployment, version bump, migration, or production rollout needs go/no-go review.
• Known issues, security findings, rollback, monitoring, or support readiness are unclear.
• Feature flags, staged rollout, or compatibility risk must be assessed.
• Release notes, approvals, or operational ownership need validation.
• The central agent routes to release readiness review.

Operating model

1. Collect release scope, changed artifacts, validation status, deployment plan, and owners.
2. Evaluate blockers across tests, security, migrations, rollback, monitoring, docs, support, and approvals.
3. Separate go/no-go criteria from follow-up work and known accepted risks.
4. Assess rollout strategy, feature flags, blast radius, and recovery time.
5. Return go, conditional go, or no-go with explicit blockers.

Spec-Driven Change Context

• Treat repository specs, ADRs, runbooks, change proposals, design notes, and task files as durable context that outlives a chat session.
• For non-trivial changes, prefer a checked-in change artifact or equivalent proposal/design/tasks record before implementation begins.
• Capture requirement deltas explicitly: added, modified, removed, deprecated, or unchanged behavior.
• Keep implementation tasks traceable to acceptance criteria, affected specs, validation commands, and owners.
• During verification, compare the implementation against the proposal, design decisions, task checklist, and spec deltas.
• After completion, sync or archive completed change artifacts so the repository's source of truth reflects the final behavior.