# Complete Release gate

The default release gate is repository-owned and uses the SDK feature band in
`global.json`:

```powershell
pwsh ./tools/run-release-gate.ps1
```

The command restores and builds `AcDream.slnx`, discovers every project under
`tests/` that declares `Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk` or `IsTestProject`, verifies
that the solution includes it, and runs each test assembly once in a fresh
Release process. It does not retry failures.

Each restore, build, and test process has an outer hard timeout. Every test
also runs with VSTest blame-hang enabled: after three minutes in one test, the
test host is terminated and a mini dump is collected; after ten minutes, the
outer watchdog kills the complete `dotnet test` process tree. CI additionally
has a 45-minute job bound.

Evidence is written to `artifacts/release-gate/`:

- `release-gate-summary.json` records the commit, branch, worktree state, SDK,
  RID, bounds, process outcomes, assembly list, and
  executed/passed/skipped/failed totals;
- `environment.txt` records `dotnet --info`, configured NuGet sources, and the
  discovered test-project set;
- `test-results/` contains one TRX per assembly plus any VSTest hang sequence
  and dump files;
- `logs/` contains the exact command and complete output for every child
  process; and
- `SHA256SUMS.txt` hashes the evidence bundle.

The complete gate runs on Windows because it exercises the full product and
launcher surface. `.github/workflows/headless-portability.yml` remains the
focused Windows/Linux portability and Vulkan evidence workflow; those jobs are
not substitutes for the complete gate.

Environment-dependent tests retain their current skip behavior and are counted
explicitly in the JSON/TRX report. Classifying or replacing those tests belongs
to R3, not to this gate checkpoint.