local-to-staging

local-to-staging moves what is already on origin/local onto origin/staging for every project that has both branches, through one PR per repo, and reports merge, handoff and Actions evidence separately. It ships no new code: it never commits, pushes, or edits files, so it needs no worktree.

Inputs

• Projects — the rows of the workspace Project Matrix (rules/projects.md, or inline in an older AGENTS.md), or the repos the user names. No matrix and no names → stop and ask.
• Branches — source local, target staging, unless the user or workspace AGENTS.md names others. A repo qualifies only when git ls-remote --heads origin <source> <target> returns both; the rest are listed as skipped with the missing branch.
• Merge method — merge commit (--merge). local and staging are long-lived, and a squash or rebase leaves staging with commits local does not contain, so the next promotion re-proposes or conflicts on work already shipped. A repo that disallows merge commits is reported and skipped; never switch methods silently.

Rules