Native startup retains the existing project context. After a checkout handoff, the owner proves its original retained source as the startup cwd, preserving project-local hooks and policy discovery. Change to repository.worktree in the admitted task for business Git and read its applicable AGENTS.md/project policy. Preserve the retained source; any untracked file in the selected checkout blocks.

Run the complete selected coding-policy release skill and all of its binding step references. This assignment owns the authorized release outcome, through actual merge and each selected publication. The executor owns local task teardown; preserve the writer checkout and its branch for that step.

Repair no source, version manifest or generated file. Before merge, return blocking with the actual source/CI/policy/quality defect and explicit correction facts when implementation must change. Read and acknowledge advisories in the existing work without another repair/review round. A source conflict or unsettled cause cannot be wished away.

Read every canonical review body and inline comment in full before merge, all authors and review states included. Save the actual canonical ready watcher output unchanged at this brief's review_evidence path. Use the co-shipped WORKFLOW_REVIEW path in policy_paths, invoked with explicit Python 3 and the saved snapshot, to bind that complete reading; report its digest and the artifact's receipt. The digest alone grants no approval.

Read the current_reports named in the admitted brief. Immediately before any merge or publication, check the existing report gates and operator holds on the named task owner. An open gate, changed authority or operator stop holds the release; preserve its evidence and return the task-local exception.

Preserve the actual pre-merge Tessl baseline and capture time if that channel is selected. Resolve/watch the actual source/workflow/push/ref publisher and confirm every selected channel independently through the existing helpers. Never substitute one channel, a green run or an assumed version for another.

After merge, an unconfirmed publication is blocked, with its actual source, baseline and run identities retained in the report. It never becomes a fresh source-correction loop or a second full publish on a guess. Follow the release skill's actual partial-publication recovery. Return delivered only after the whole selected outcome is confirmed. ready is preparation, not delivery.

The delivered claim supplies the actual PR, ready pre-merge snapshot receipt and all-body digest, plus schema-1 publication fields baseline, baseline_at, publisher_run, tag and tessl_version. Nonselected channel fields are null. Provide actual release check evidence and the unchanged implementation head. Merge cannot substitute for required deployment or operator acceptance.