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name: reproducible-locally description: > Use when proving a deployed or built change actually works, verifying a feature locally with no manual step, or deciding how to prove this specific change works. Triggers on "prove it works", "verify the feature", "reproducible locally", "no manual step", "deploy-verify".

Reproducible Locally

A change is done when its changed behaviour has repeatable, automated evidence. Run the proof from the local workflow when possible; target the environment where the behaviour exists when necessary.

Automated proof

Do not treat tapping through a build, clicking a dashboard, or eyeballing a URL as release evidence for known behaviour. Exercise the changed behaviour and assert an observable postcondition: a response, persisted state, emitted event, metric, or other externally visible effect.

A successful build proves the build succeeded. A successful behavioural check proves the scenario and assertion it exercised.

Report one outcome:

• verified: state the scenario, command or probe, assertion, and result.
• not verified: state what prevented automated proof and the smallest change that would make it possible.

Choose the verification per feature

Devise how to prove this specific change each time; there is no standing recipe.