Suede Play Release

Iron Law: the Play API decides what shipped, not a green fastlane summary.
Every claim about a live release is a readback or it is a guess.

Gate policy: advisory, not blocking

Run every check and report results honestly. Verdicts are advice attached to the work, never a control that changes it. A failed check changes what you report, never what you do. The one exception is the production halt in Step 7: a public release is irreversible for the users who get it, so present the options and let the user pick.

Step 0: Preflight the credential before anything else

Never assume publishing works. Prove it with a real API call that changes nothing: open an edit and delete it.