chore: agentic release workflow Phase 5A MVP validation

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Summary

Completed Phase 5A MVP validation of the agentic release workflow. The orchestrator successfully executed a major release (v0.6.0 → v1.0.0) with:

• ✅ Full 10-step workflow execution (initialize, agentic reasoning, 7-layer safety gates, reporting)
• ✅ Dry-run mode validation (preview without mutations)
• ✅ Live major release execution
• ✅ 7-layer safety gates all passing
• ✅ Agentic confidence scoring: 0.92 (high confidence)
• ✅ Tiered approval flows validated
• ✅ Structured audit logging to .github/reports/agentic-releases/

Changes

• Documented agentic release workflow dry-run execution with full gate validation
• Generated audit report: 1787338016018_release-1.0.0_major.json
• Executed live major release workflow
• Generated live audit report: 1787338963492_release-1.0.0_major.json

Impact / Compatibility

• Runtime/behaviour changes: None — Phase 5A is proof-of-concept, Phase 4 shell script integration pending
• Build/dev-experience impact: New audit reports in .github/reports/agentic-releases/ directory

Verification

• ✅ CI passes
• ✅ Dry-run mode workflow execution successful
• ✅ Live release execution successful
• ✅ All 7 safety gates validated
• ✅ Agentic confidence scoring operational
• ✅ Audit logging functional

Risk & Rollback

• Risk level: Low
• Rollback plan: Audit reports are read-only; no mutations committed

Changelog

Added

• Agentic release workflow Phase 5A MVP audit reports for v1.0.0 major release
• Structured audit logging with workflow telemetry (timestamp, scope, gates, score, decisions)

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