One ask policy; mandated executors exempt from the delegation rule; skill plan satisfies the planning rule; journal line exempt from the approval gate; chore = maintenance without new behaviour; small fix on develop = bugfix; BDR-068 written as the one auto-finish exception; deploy routes to /deploy. Skills and agents follow: hotfix types by base + skips the design gate on trivial; capitalize/close create missing registries; commit-change asks the branch type; doc/seo/web-validate/refactor branch through the aiguillage; tour reports BREAKING fixes as needs-decision and runs doc-syncer two-mode; client-handover applies audit bundles from its main loop behind one gate; init-project/onboard use the 200-file graphify signal and bootstrap memory; release-candidate gates the tag push only; push wording aligned with the BDR-095 hooks; stale pointers fixed (§ Language, .gsd/ROADMAP.md, handover script path, design-gate lists).
/release-candidate cuts a release by orchestrating the existing gitflow
release mechanic (start from develop; finish fan-out main+develop+delete)
and adding the one piece the lib lacks: the version tag.
- skills/release-candidate/SKILL.md: thin orchestrator — preconditions →
gitflow start release → prep (version.txt + CHANGELOG, breaking doc'd) →
run-tests gate → human WHEN-to-release gate → gitflow finish → git tag -a
vX.Y.Z (in the skill, lib untouched) → push (gated).
- lib/tests/run-release-candidate.sh: throwaway-repo flow replay. RC_TAG=0
reds the tag (gitflow fans out but never tags); RC_TAG=1 → 5/5.
- CLAUDE.md: Skill routing line. CHANGELOG [Unreleased]: /reconcile +
/release-candidate under Added (so the eventual v4.0.0 captures them).
Tag scheme vX.Y.Z continues the version.txt/CHANGELOG lineage. writing-skills TDD.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01C6bUdvHnajCNzgVQefZowj
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