# 02 — Branching/Release — Proposal (LLM)

- Goal: Keep `main` always green and production-ready with CI protections, while developing on short-lived branches.
- Recommended model: Trunk-based. Optional `next` only for batching risky work.
- Main content: full repo (code, prompts, templates, docs). Release tags: `YYYY-MM-DD-HHMM` on `main` only.
- Protections: required checks (audit + Docker tests), PRs required, Conventional Commits, linear history/squash.
- Migration: tag baseline; create `wip/phase1`; enable protections; add docs/branching.md.

Approve by replying in the human doc with “Approved for Plan”.