DevOps Center Promotion

Drives the full promotion workflow in DevOps Center — validate, prepare, optionally combine, promote, and complete — moving work items through the release pipeline. Provides headless, --json-driven, idempotent operations for autonomous release workflows in CI. Every promotion begins with a mandatory validate step.

Scope

• In scope: Validate promotion preconditions, prepare a work item, combine work items that share metadata into one promotion, promote one or more work items or an entire source stage to a target stage, and complete the promotion
• Out of scope: Work item creation/status updates (use dx-devops-work-item-manage), conflict detection, polling an existing promotion's status, pipeline or project setup (separate skills)

Required Inputs

Gather or infer before proceeding: