pre-launch

The gate. It inspects the repository and the build, and it blocks the launch if anything mechanical is wrong. Then it hands you up to nine things no script can check.

The two rules

Never declare the site ready while any check fails. There is no flag that turns a failure into a warning, and adding one would be the wrong fix. Exit 1 means not ready. If you believe a check is wrong about this site, say so plainly to the human and fix the check — do not route around it.

Never reorder the human list. Its order is a dependency order with two one-way doors in it: the Search Console baseline must be exported before DNS moves, and the forms must reach a real person before the deploy that makes them public. Both are unrecoverable if taken late.

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