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To verify production readiness before merging a development branch, you must ensure all automated tests pass and review critical checks for observability, rollback, and backward compatibility to minimize integration risks.

The best way to integrate a finished development branch involves choosing between merging locally, creating a pull request, keeping the branch, or discarding the work based on your code integration workflow needs.

Yes, you can create a pull request after completing a production readiness check, which ensures your code quality is verified and deferred items are tracked before initiating the pull request workflow.

Yes, this development workflow integrates with worktree management to provide efficient code integration processes when finalizing your current development branch and preparing it for production.

You should discard a development branch instead of creating a pull request when production readiness checks fail, automated tests do not pass, or the work no longer meets your code quality standards.