Know when your release is safe to ship, without manually checking

Zero monitors your release pipeline, checks CI gates and version bumps, and tells you the moment a release PR is ready, or exactly what's blocking it.

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Why 'is this release ready?' is a 15-minute answer

Before every release, someone has to verify: all CI checks green, version bumped correctly, changelog generated, no blocking labels, no migrations that need extra care. Ten minutes of clicking across tabs, any one of which could surface a problem. Release Readiness Check flips it into a single prompt. Zero reads the PR, verifies every gate, surfaces what's missing, and tells you plainly: ready, or blocked on X. When it's ready, the team gets a green light in Slack; when it's not, they know exactly what to fix.

How to ask Zero to check release readiness

@Zero check the open release PR. Verify all CI checks passed, the version was bumped per semver, the changelog was updated, no `do-not-merge` label is set, and no migration files were touched. Post the verdict to #release-notify.

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How Zero verifies release readiness

Zero reads the open release PR

Zero pulls the PR metadata, file diffs, CI status, labels, and changelog. Everything gets normalized into one check-list per release.

Zero verifies each readiness gate you defined

Zero walks through your gates: CI green, semver-correct version bump, changelog updated, no blocking labels, no sensitive file changes, reviewers approved. Each gate passes or fails with evidence.

Zero reports a single verdict

The result is one Slack message: 'ready' or 'not ready, blocked on X'. Not ambiguous, not a list of 14 links to click through. If it's ready, the team can merge with confidence.

Tighten the gates, notify the team, or auto-merge when green

Tighten the gates

Add a new readiness criterion on the fly.

@Zero from now on, also fail the release check if the PR description is empty or the target branch isn't `main`.

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Notify the right people

Route blockers to the relevant on-call.

@Zero when the release is blocked on security review, tag @security in the readiness post, not just the general channel.

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Auto-merge when all gates clear

Chain it with the auto-merge releases use case for hands-off shipping.

@Zero when all readiness gates are green, enable auto-merge on the release PR so it ships the moment branch protection clears.

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Required integrations: GitHub and Slack

GitHub

GitHub. Zero reads PR status, file diffs, CI checks, labels, and changelog. Read access to the repo is required; write access is only needed if chaining with auto-merge.

Required

Slack

Slack. Zero posts readiness verdicts to the channel you name. Channel write access required.

Required

Best practices for release readiness monitoring

●Define 'ready' once, up front. Encoding 'CI green + changelog + no migrations' in the prompt is the one-time cost; every future release benefits.

●Run it before standup, not after. The readiness check is most useful when it primes the team to act, not when the release has already sat for four hours.

●Chain with Auto-Merge Releases for true hands-off shipping on the releases that clear all gates.