# Accept Action - Governance Guidelines

These guidelines govern the final acceptance step for a documentation mission. The deliverable is not new documentation; it is an explicit acceptance decision that the published handoff is complete, traceable, and ready to become the baseline for future documentation work.

## Core Authorship Focus

- Confirm `release.md` exists and names what shipped, where it shipped, the source revision, and the living-documentation cadence.
- Confirm the publish handoff has an accountable owner for support and future revalidation.
- Confirm any caveats accepted during publish are visible and linked to follow-up work where needed.
- Do not introduce new content. If acceptance finds content gaps, block acceptance and return to the appropriate earlier phase.

## Acceptance Checks

- `audit-report.md` records a ready-to-publish verdict or explicitly accepted caveats.
- `release.md` records published URLs or the exact publication target, source revision, generator versions, and maintenance owner.
- Living-documentation expectations are explicit enough for the next discover/audit cycle to consume.
- No unresolved blocker is hidden in prose-only notes.

## What This Phase Does NOT Cover

The accept action does not reopen scope, generate documentation, validate generated content, or publish artifacts. It only records whether the publication handoff is accepted as the mission baseline.
