Stage It

Overview

Use this skill to promote work onto the staging branch (and staging environment when one exists) without skipping the evidence trail. This is commonly feature-branch -> staging for deployed applications with a staged release train.

This skill does not promote staging to production. That is ship-it.

This skill does not mutate production data, seed CMS records, rotate secrets, or bypass branch protection unless the user explicitly asks for a separate operational change and the repo runbook allows it.

First Gate: Does This Repo Use Staging?

Before acting, classify the repository from current evidence only (not memory of another repo):