6 Read the Gate and hand off
Interpret PROMOTE or REJECT as a policy recommendation and hand deployment authority to external CI/CD.
Compare the Candidate Job with a comparable baseline under an explicit Promotion Policy. Read the overall decision together with regressions, coverage and invalid criteria.
You do
Review representative evidence, confirm the policy matches business risk and decide whether external CI/CD should consume the recommendation.
Harbor records
Baseline/Candidate Job identities, Policy identity, comparison details and deterministic Gate artifact.
This does not prove
PROMOTE is not a production deployment, Champion mutation or universal quality guarantee. It is a recommendation for the frozen evidence and policy.
The loop ends with an explicit handoff—and begins again only when new evidence justifies another controlled change.