{
  "schema_version": 3,
  "diagram_type": "lifecycle",
  "meta": {
    "title": "Deployment Release Lifecycle",
    "output": "examples/deployment-release.html",
    "animation": "trace",
    "visual_preset": "signal-flow",
    "quality_profile": "showcase"
  },
  "mainPath": ["queued", "building", "verifying", "ready", "live"],
  "states": [
    { "id": "queued", "type": "start", "label": "Queued", "sublabel": "change accepted", "tag": "pending", "step": "01" },
    { "id": "building", "type": "active", "label": "Building", "sublabel": "immutable image", "tag": "running", "step": "02" },
    { "id": "verifying", "type": "decision", "label": "Verifying", "sublabel": "tests + policy", "tag": "gate", "step": "03" },
    { "id": "ready", "type": "waiting", "label": "Ready", "sublabel": "promotion pending", "tag": "approved", "step": "04" },
    { "id": "live", "type": "success", "label": "Live", "sublabel": "production healthy", "tag": "success", "step": "05" },
    { "id": "approval", "type": "waiting", "label": "Needs Approval", "sublabel": "release owner", "tag": "pause" },
    { "id": "cancelled", "type": "failure", "label": "Cancelled", "sublabel": "approval denied", "tag": "terminal" },
    { "id": "paused", "type": "waiting", "label": "Health Paused", "sublabel": "SLO regression", "tag": "observe" },
    { "id": "rollback", "type": "active", "label": "Rolling Back", "sublabel": "last good image", "tag": "automatic" },
    { "id": "rolled_back", "type": "success", "label": "Rolled Back", "sublabel": "service restored", "tag": "terminal" },
    { "id": "failed", "type": "failure", "label": "Failed", "sublabel": "rollback failed", "tag": "terminal" },
    { "id": "aborted", "type": "neutral", "label": "Aborted", "sublabel": "change withdrawn", "tag": "terminal" }
  ],
  "transitions": [
    { "id": "queued-building", "from": "queued", "to": "building", "label": "pick up" },
    { "id": "building-verifying", "from": "building", "to": "verifying", "label": "image built" },
    { "id": "verifying-ready", "from": "verifying", "to": "ready", "label": "checks pass" },
    { "id": "ready-live", "from": "ready", "to": "live", "label": "promote" },
    { "id": "verifying-building", "from": "verifying", "to": "building", "label": "tests fail" },
    { "id": "verifying-approval", "from": "verifying", "to": "approval", "label": "needs sign-off", "variant": "security" },
    { "id": "approval-ready", "from": "approval", "to": "ready", "label": "approved" },
    { "id": "approval-cancelled", "from": "approval", "to": "cancelled", "label": "denied", "variant": "security" },
    { "id": "live-paused", "from": "live", "to": "paused", "label": "SLO alert", "variant": "dashed" },
    { "id": "paused-live", "from": "paused", "to": "live", "label": "recovered" },
    { "id": "paused-rollback", "from": "paused", "to": "rollback", "label": "breach persists", "variant": "security" },
    { "id": "rollback-rolled-back", "from": "rollback", "to": "rolled_back", "label": "restored", "variant": "emphasis" },
    { "id": "rollback-failed", "from": "rollback", "to": "failed", "label": "rollback error", "variant": "security" },
    { "id": "building-aborted", "from": "building", "to": "aborted", "label": "abort" },
    { "id": "verifying-aborted", "from": "verifying", "to": "aborted", "label": "abort" }
  ],
  "cards": [
    {
      "dot": "cyan",
      "title": "Promotion Path",
      "items": [
        "The release object moves through five ordered phases",
        "Verification and approval remain distinct states",
        "Live means production health is currently proven"
      ]
    },
    {
      "dot": "amber",
      "title": "Wait States",
      "items": [
        "Human approval can pause without consuming a worker",
        "A health regression pauses further rollout",
        "Every wait exposes the event required to continue"
      ]
    },
    {
      "dot": "rose",
      "title": "Explicit Endings",
      "items": [
        "Denied approval ends as Cancelled",
        "Rollback controller failure ends as Failed",
        "Successful rollback is a terminal restored outcome"
      ]
    }
  ]
}