gaia-releaselisted
Install: claude install-skill metraton/gaia
# Gaia Release
The norm for getting Gaia onto a machine and into the registry, organized as three layers of increasing confidence. The user expresses exactly one of three intentions -- **install local** (Layer 1, fast iteration), **pre-release** (Layer 2, the confidence gate), or **release** (Layer 3, the official publish) -- and each maps to a complete, automated sequence the orchestrator runs end-to-end. The user never recalls a sub-step and never runs a release script by hand: the script is a tool the flow invokes, not a command the human must remember. This is the lesson of the sagas that shipped broken -- a release failed because a version source was bumped one file at a time and a forgotten `pyproject.toml` drifted; another needed a force-push to reconcile a tag. Every one of those was a manual step a human was trusted to remember and didn't. The fix is to norm the sequence so the steps cannot be forgotten: they are the flow, not a checklist beside it.
**This skill orchestrates the sequence; it does not define what a healthy install looks like.** Every layer closes by installing into a target workspace and then validating it -- and "how you validate" lives in `gaia-verify`, which owns the wire-up checklist and the per-surface checks. When a layer says "verify," it means "run `gaia-verify` for the matching mode." Keep the two apart: release is the *when and in what order*; verify is the *did it come out right*.
## The delivery model: one plugin, two distribution chann