# Read the Gate and hand off

> Interpret PROMOTE or REJECT as a policy recommendation and hand deployment authority to external CI/CD.

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LLMS index: [llms.txt](/harbor-self-evolving/llms.txt)

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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 {#you-do}

Review representative evidence, confirm the policy matches business risk and decide whether external CI/CD should consume the recommendation.

## Harbor records {#harbor-records}

Baseline/Candidate Job identities, Policy identity, comparison details and deterministic Gate artifact.

## This does not prove {#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.