Candidate Lifecycle
Use this skill only when an artifact has a candidate-versus-official decision. Keep lifecycle state separate from evidence state and from ordinary implementation status.
Procedure
- Classify the artifact and its current state: draft, candidate, frozen, scored, official, unpromoted, deprecated, or archived.
- Bind the decision to the relevant version, scope, evaluation evidence, owner, deadline, budget, and stop conditions.
- Choose one transition: promote, narrow, reject, archive, deprecate, or escalate.
- Update the affected documentation and prevent the old state from silently guiding new work.
Evidence that is merely insufficient does not make a candidate official, and a single successful run does not prove promotion.
Output
Return the current state, evidence and scope, chosen transition, owner, and any remaining revalidation or migration condition.
1---2name: candidate-lifecycle3description: Use only when a candidate, experimental, official, deprecated, or promoted rule, prompt, model, dataset, threshold, workflow, or configuration is being evaluated or transitioned. Do not trigger for ordinary implementation, testing, deployment, or configuration edits.4---56# Candidate Lifecycle78Use this skill only when an artifact has a candidate-versus-official decision. Keep lifecycle state separate from evidence state and from ordinary implementation status.910## Procedure11121. Classify the artifact and its current state: draft, candidate, frozen, scored, official, unpromoted, deprecated, or archived.132. Bind the decision to the relevant version, scope, evaluation evidence, owner, deadline, budget, and stop conditions.143. Choose one transition: promote, narrow, reject, archive, deprecate, or escalate.154. Update the affected documentation and prevent the old state from silently guiding new work.1617Evidence that is merely insufficient does not make a candidate official, and a single successful run does not prove promotion.1819## Output2021Return the current state, evidence and scope, chosen transition, owner, and any remaining revalidation or migration condition.