# Bounded Solo-Maintainer Release

- id: bounded-solo-maintainer-release
- type: skill
- category: agent-operations
- detail: https://agents.proofandstate.com/products/bounded-solo-maintainer-release

## Summary
Execute an explicitly owner-authorised release under a narrow recorded solo-maintainer exception while preserving exact-head checks, protected merge, rollback and runtime evidence.

## Problem
A sole maintainer can be blocked by a non-author review rule, while informal workarounds risk inventing approval or silently weakening release and target-system boundaries.

## Core outcomes
- Explicit owner authority and a bounded policy exception
- Technical review distinguished from independent approval and formal scanning
- Exact candidate, merged tree and deployed revision reconciliation
- Normal protected merge with stale-head rejection
- Rollback preparation, smoke tests and independent runtime readback
- Provider scan clearance separated from live-case and publication acceptance

## Requirements
- Explicit owner-authorised exception for an owner-controlled release
- Current repository governance and required checks
- Exact candidate source and immutable validation evidence
- Existing authorised merge and deployment mechanisms
- Previous-runtime and rollback information
- Read-only production and provider acceptance surfaces

## Boundaries
- Reviewer absence does not automatically authorise an exception
- Does not impersonate reviewers or grant authority over inspected systems
- Does not disable protections or waive unrelated checks
- Manual technical review is not a formal security scan
- Deployment and scanner success do not establish publication or customer adoption

## Tags
- solo-maintainer
- release-governance
- authority
- exact-revision
- deployment
- rollback
- evidence

## Canonical source
- repository: AyobamiH/agent-shop-products (main)
- payload path: products/bounded-solo-maintainer-release/SKILL.md

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