release-candidate-gate

You can validate release readiness without deploying by running a local gate script that executes Python security checks, targeted regression tests, frontend builds, and governance adoption checks to ensure production deployability.

A non-deploying release gate is a pre-release verification process that validates build health by running local security scans and regression tests without pushing images, mutating cloud resources, or calling live external services.

Yes, you can skip frontend build checks by executing the release candidate gate script with appropriate skip options, allowing you to target only backend security and regression coverage for your specific changes.

Python security scanning in a release gate includes running Ruff for linting, import-cycle checks, Bandit for vulnerability detection, and pip-audit style gates to ensure no security failures block the release.

GroundTruth governance adoption checks are required before production release to ensure MemBase and Deliberation Archive evidence is recorded, keeping the deployment compliant with platform governance standards.

A local pre-release verification gate cannot validate live service interactions or infrastructure mutations; it is limited to non-deploying checks and will enforce stop conditions if required Python proof or security checks fail.