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# Drills
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What a drill means in this repo: an **end-to-end rehearsal of both doors of
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the release workflow on a disposable repo**. The contract suite proves every
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decision offline — facts → decide → notes against fixtures, the merge door's
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step sequence replayed in release-exercise.yml — but the doors themselves
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only ever run live: gating on a real push event, the tag create, the
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publish, the `-dev` re-arm (release.yml's "what is honestly untested"). The
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drill is where they run live *before* a version rests on them.
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## The rehearsal
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1. Create a scratch **private** repo. It is disposable by design — it gets
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deleted at the end.
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2. Install the docs/CONSUMERS.md caller stubs, pinned to the release
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candidate ref. A branch ref works: refs are static identifiers — the
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family's own drill doctrine.
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3. Give it a fixture `VERSION` / `CHANGELOG.md` / `drills/` in the armed
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state (`X.Y.Z-dev`, `## Unreleased` on top).
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4. Exercise both doors, one probe at a time:
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1. a merge-door ceremony publishes exactly one release and re-arms main
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to `-dev`;
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2. a mislabeled ordinary PR is a green NOTICE no-op;
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3. a bare-version PR without the `release` label refuses;
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4. a re-run of the completed ceremony refuses;
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5. a tag-door release from a manual tag;
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6. a mismatched tag refuses.
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Every refusal must refuse **creating nothing** — a probe that leaves a
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tag or a release behind on a refusal path is a failed probe.
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## The record
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One file per version, `drills/X.Y.Z.md` — the shape the siblings use: what
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was run, where, the result of each probe, failures written down plainly. The
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record is the evidence; the scratch repo is the evidence's scaffolding and
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is deleted afterwards.
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`actions/drill-recorded` refuses any bare-version tree whose record is
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missing or blank. A waived drill is still a record: the file says WAIVED and
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why — a maintainer's call, visible and reviewable in the release PR's diff,
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never a silent skip.
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