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CI/CD Baseline and Deployment Plan

1. Introduction

  • Status: Current CI baseline plus proposed architecture additions
  • Scope: GitHub Actions validation, local Node/Docker delivery, and release verification for T3MP3ST 1.0.0
  • Owner: Release integrator / deployment manager
  • Boundary: No hosted production environment, fleet rollout, or managed service is evidenced by the repository.

2. Deployments Table

Environment Purpose Artifact / URL Scale profile Owner
Developer/operator host Install, CLI/library, optional War Room npm/repository package; loopback HTTP Single local process Operator
Local Docker Reproducible application runtime Compose service; 127.0.0.1:3333 host binding Single container Operator
GitHub Actions CI Quality/evidence verification Workflow jobs; no user URL Per workflow matrix Maintainer
Challenge/tool container Isolated authorized benchmark/tool execution Harness-specific image/container Per case/run Evaluator
Hosted staging/production/DR Not defined N/A N/A Requires new architecture/deployment plan

3. Deployment Strategy

Local installation and Docker are replace-in-place deployments of one versioned codebase. Releases should use an immutable commit/tag and package artifact after all required gates pass. A canary/blue-green strategy is N/A for the current self-hosted baseline; operators may retain the prior version and local artifacts for rollback.

4. Environments and Prerequisites

  • Node.js 18+ (CI uses Node.js 22), npm, and platform prerequisites for selected external tools.
  • Docker/Compose only for container paths.
  • Provider credentials or authenticated local agents only when the selected workflow needs them.
  • Explicit authorized target context for real operations.
  • Writable, access-controlled report/evidence/config paths with adequate disk space.

5. Rolling Restart and Disposability

There is no multi-replica rolling deployment. Before replacing a running local server, stop/pause mission activity, allow bounded subprocesses to finish or terminate them, preserve configured local paths, stop the process/container, deploy the new artifact, and run health/preflight checks. Startup and graceful-shutdown timing are not measured; any <10s or zero-downtime claim is prohibited until NFR-11 evidence exists.

6. Deployment Schedule and Freeze

  1. Select release commit and freeze claim/receipt/contract changes.
  2. Run required CI and local release checks.
  3. Review Critical/High defects, maturity labels, dependency/license changes, and sensitive artifacts.
  4. Build/publish signed or checksummed artifacts according to the approved release process.
  5. Verify installation/startup/health on a clean supported environment.
  6. Publish release notes and known limitations.

Dates and communication windows are release-specific and must be recorded in the release checklist rather than invented here.

7. Deployment Steps

Step Owner Evidence / success condition
Resolve exact commit/tag and clean build input Release integrator Revision recorded; no unintended files
Install dependencies and build CI/release integrator npm ci and build/type/lint pass
Run deterministic tests/gates CI Required workflow jobs pass
Run claim/provenance/anti-fitting/prompt checks CI/evaluation steward No stale or unsupported claim
Build/package/container smoke Release integrator Artifact starts and health/preflight passes
Inspect protected/sensitive paths Safety/release reviewer No secrets/evidence unintentionally packaged
Publish and verify Release integrator Published artifact/version/checksum matches release input

8. Admin Tasks

The current release has no application database migration or backfill model. Configuration migrations must be versioned implementation paths, not one-off data edits. Key rotation, evidence relocation, or benchmark corpus transformation requires a documented task with ordering, owner, approval, validation, and rollback before a release uses it.

9. Data Migration

N/A for a transactional application database. Local configuration migrations are handled by supported code; reports/evidence remain operator-controlled mounts/paths. Before any format-breaking change, provide backup, forward migration, validation, and rollback/read-compatibility steps and update NFR-10.

10. Verification and Validation

The current pipeline runs dependency installation, lint, typecheck, tests, coverage, doctor, claim verification, anti-fitting, provenance, prompt audit, and smoke checks. Release verification additionally confirms the actual packaged artifact starts, the local health route responds, interface documentation matches behavior, and sensitive/ignored corpora are absent.

Proposed additions:

  1. SDLC artifact/citation/traceability conformance.
  2. Cross-document maturity consistency.
  3. Network-adapter scope/approval/credential/timeout inventory completeness.
  4. Release artifact checksums/signatures and SBOM according to an approved supply-chain threat model.

11. Rollback and Contingency

Rollback triggers include safety/credential bypass, corrupt configuration/artifacts, failed startup/health, broken required surface, or invalid public claim. Stop the affected version, preserve diagnostic artifacts without publishing secrets, restore the prior known-good package/image and backed-up configuration, rerun health/smoke, and open a defect with revision/evidence. The release integrator may halt; safety reviewers may block any release weakening deterministic controls.

12. Communication Plan

Release notes state version/revision, supported environments, user-visible contract changes, maturity changes, security fixes using coordinated-disclosure policy, known limitations, migration/rollback steps, and claim/benchmark scope. Security-sensitive details are not disclosed before coordination permits.

13. Support Handover

Handover includes getting-started, developer, API, MCP, security, release, troubleshooting/preflight, and known-limitations documentation. No general on-call SLA is claimed. Operators remain responsible for host/tool prerequisites, authorization, and local sensitive-artifact retention.

14. Risk Management

Risk Control Owner
Off-scope/dangerous regression Scope/approval negative tests and safety review Safety reviewer
Secret/evidence packaged Ignore/denylist review, redaction, artifact inspection Release integrator
Stale capability claim Claim/provenance/maturity gates Evaluation steward
Supply-chain compromise Lockfile, CI action/image review; future SBOM/signing decision Configuration/release manager
Update damages local artifacts Protected-path self-tests and documented rollback Release integrator

15. Approvals

  • Required CI jobs pass for the exact release commit.
  • Maintainer/release integrator approves artifact and notes.
  • Safety reviewer approves any trust-boundary/tool change.
  • Evaluation reviewer approves any claim/benchmark/maturity change.
  • Named approvals and dates are recorded in the release record; none are inferred here.

References

  • @.aiwg/architecture/software-architecture-doc.md — Deployment/process baseline.
  • @.aiwg/requirements/nfr-register.md — Deployment-relevant quality constraints.
  • @.aiwg/testing/test-strategy.md — Gate definitions.
  • @.aiwg/intake/risk-screening.md — Release risks.
  • @.github/workflows/ci.yml — Current CI implementation.
  • @docker-compose.yml — Local container deployment.
  • @package.json — Engine, scripts, package, and license metadata.
  • @scripts/update.mjs — Update behavior.
  • @scripts/test-update.mjs — Protected-update regression evidence.
  • @docs/RELEASE_CHECKLIST.md — Release-specific operational checklist.