Ready to Release
Agent-ready continuous delivery for regulated industries

_{The Everything as Code framework — compliance, traceability, and release automation
governed by code, operated by humans and AI agents alike.}

       

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Get Started

Up and running in under 5 minutes.

View install commands

EAC CLI (standalone, no Docker required)

Linux / macOS

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ready-to-release/eac/main/scripts/sh/eac/install.sh | bash

Windows (PowerShell)

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ready-to-release/eac/main/scripts/pwsh/eac/install.ps1 | iex

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CLIE (extension manager — adds Docker-based extensions to EAC)

Linux / macOS

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ready-to-release/eac/main/scripts/sh/cli/install.sh | bash

Windows (PowerShell)

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ready-to-release/eac/main/scripts/pwsh/cli/install.ps1 | iex

_{eac init · eac validate · eac build · claude /boot}

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The Transformation

Agent-Ready by Design

Everything as Code turns compliance from a bottleneck into a byproduct.
_{Specifications · Documentation · Compliance · Traceability — all version-controlled, executable, automated.}

_{Word documents → Executable specs
Wiki pages → Generated from code
Manual checklists → Automated gates
Audit spreadsheets → Git history
Months of release/audit prep → Always ready
Documents agents can't read → Machine-enforceable infrastructure}

One commit. Validated build. Auditable release.
_{Audit-ready documentation as a byproduct of your pipeline, not a bottleneck before release.
Infrastructure where intelligent agents can safely read, validate, and act.}

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AI-Native

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Command Areas

12 command areas. eac <command>

Browse all commands →

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Why It Works

DORA research proves regulated industries achieve elite performance:

The difference isn't less compliance—it's automated compliance.
_{Small validated changes · Continuous evidence capture · Traceability in every commit}

Common challenges this solves

Traditional approaches create friction:

• No single source of truth → Multiple systems, version mismatches, manual reconciliation
• Documentation drift → Wiki pages outdated, Word docs lost, specs disconnected from code
• Scattered evidence → Audit prep takes months, traceability requires manual investigation
• Late security scans → Issues found at the end, expensive to fix, delays release
• Manual gates → Bottlenecks in the pipeline, human error, inconsistent checks
• Release events → Big-bang deployments, deployment roulette, high-risk changes

EAC replaces friction with flow — everything versioned, traced, and automated in git.

_{This repository uses EAC to build itself — living proof of the framework's efficacy.}

Understand the paradigm → · Explore the compliance-velocity paradox →

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Extend & Learn

_{Build Docker-based CLI extensions → · Add custom automation modules →}

Your standards. Your tooling. One CLI.

Full documentation → · Contributing →

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The Crew

Built by practitioners who ship to production daily.

_{MIT (code) · CC BY-SA 4.0 (docs)}