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Run this checklist right after updating the Versioning & releases pilot page. Start the clock or Post the receipts. Exit metric: lab runtime ≤10 minutes with ≥0.9 pass rate and no new L3 overrides for the slice.

Tiny receipts — Releases (v2025.11)

Preconditions

pnpm install finished and pnpm run docs:guard is green on the current branch.
Page updates staged at docs/operate/versioning-and-releases/index.md.
Receipts + state files checked out: docs/signals/receipts/v2025.11-releases.md, docs/releases/state/v2025.11-releases.md.
Release manifest (ops/releases/2025-11/manifest.json) available for telemetry notes.

Opener + CTA check (2 min) — Run pnpm run ux:scan and confirm opener pattern + CTA placement render above the first heading.
Guardrail + traceability (2 min) — Execute pnpm run traceability:check to prove CTAs map to m-lab-pass and m-defect-rate-changed-pages. Screenshot or copy the success lines for receipts.
Docs guard (3 min) — Run pnpm run docs:guard to catch sanitization, tone, and frontmatter issues. Capture the first green output.
Update receipts + state (2 min) — Append adoption/quality/credibility notes to /signals/receipts/v2025.11-releases.md and refresh /releases/state/v2025.11-releases.md with the latest owner, decisions, and metrics.
Log telemetry (1 min) — Update reports/labs.json via pnpm run labs (or run the single lab file with node scripts/run-labs.mjs). Commit the refreshed report plus release bundle references.

Opener and CTAs pass ux:scan; no CTA override required.
pnpm run traceability:check and pnpm run docs:guard exit 0 with artifacts attached to the PR.
reports/labs.json shows the versioning & releases lab entry with pass: true.
Receipts and state snapshot mention the pilot tag v2025.11-releases.
Release bundle lists the decision + pilot status.

If any step fails twice, stop the pilot, file an exception in /governance/exceptions.md, and revert the page until guardrails pass.
If runtime exceeds 10 minutes for two consecutive runs, remove the newest checklist addition and open an issue tagged kl,question with the offending step.
Resume only when the annex lab and receipts file both pass guardrails for one tag.