/plate

Plate is the final local-to-review transaction: finish required artifacts, validate, commit safely, then publish through the repository's ordinary or stack-aware path.

Inputs and modes

• Commit-only — save local work without publishing it.
• Topology preflight — answer and persist the new-PR layout before another workflow creates commits or branches.
• New PR — no PR exists for the branch and publication is requested.
• Existing PR — update a PR while preserving its current topology.
• Stack maintenance — create, inspect, sync, restack, submit, recover, or explicitly ship a stack through its provider.

Accept --hard to run /hard-cheese immediately before the first share-for-review operation. Give that gate the final artifact inventory and verification rows, not an earlier implementation-only snapshot.