Production readiness checklist¶

Status: release candidate checklist for adaptation.

Related chapter: 23.

Owner: platform owner or release owner.

Use case: final readiness review before an agentic capability moves beyond a limited internal pilot or controlled canary.

Version: v1.0-book-rc, to be locked when the public companion URL and first book release version are finalized.

What to adapt: organization-specific risk tiers, reviewer roles, evidence retention rules, incident channels, rollout waves and compliance gates.

Limitations: this checklist is an engineering readiness aid. It does not guarantee safety, regulatory compliance or operational approval without local review.

Minimum gates¶

• Capability contract is approved.
• Owner map is current.
• Risk tier is assigned.
• Policy bundle is versioned.
• Tool gateway enforces side-effect boundaries.
• Verifier has pre-call and post-call checks where needed.
• Trace includes run, session, capability, policy and tool evidence.
• Eval gate has current pass/fail rationale.
• Rollout wave has blast-radius limits.
• Stop criteria are explicit.
• Rollback or reconciliation path is tested.
• Incident channel is known.
• Registry lifecycle state is current.
• Open high-severity findings are closed or explicitly accepted.
• Next assurance review date is set.