editorial-outline-approve

Transitioning an approved editorial outline to drafting requires validating the outline state is 'approved', ensuring the calendar entry is in Outlining, and performing the transition without touching content or running git operations.

When an outline is approved for drafting, the article body remains completely untouched on disk. The approval only flips the calendar stage and workflow state, deferring all body drafting to a separate editorial draft command.

Approving an editorial outline does not run any git operations. The process strictly handles workflow state transitions and calendar stage updates, intentionally leaving repository management and content drafting to subsequent downstream steps.

You cannot advance an outline to drafting if the workflow state is not approved. The system validates that the outline workflow for the specified site and slug is explicitly in the 'approved' state before performing the transition.

The best way to move an editorial calendar from Outlining to Drafting is to use an automated outline approval command. It synchronizes the calendar stage transition with the outline workflow state in a single step without modifying the article body.