Overview

Release Guard is a release decision system for Unity. It evaluates project policy, captures and reviews UI evidence, audits exact customer package roots, applies only explicitly supported reversible fixes, and exports machine- and reviewer-readable evidence.

Decision model

• Project Release evaluates the committed release profile against the selected target and project state.
• UI Release QA reviews structural evidence and actual-player screenshots with explicit baselines, masks, tolerances, geometry, target-size, text, focus, locale, and theme evidence.
• Publisher Mode audits the exact customer package root and keeps local package readiness distinct from missing external marketplace evidence.
• Safe remediation is previewed before mutation, confirmed by the user, and reversible. There is no global blind Auto Fix All.
• CI uses the same committed profiles, rules, capability model, and terminal report contract as the Editor workflow.

Fail-closed capabilities

Required evidence that is unavailable, unsupported, stale, invalid, or blocked is not a pass. Release Guard keeps capability state separate from finding severity so missing evidence cannot be hidden by severity overrides.

Included Core component

Release Guard depends on net.kiwistudios.releasecore 26.8.5 as a bundled internal component. Release Core is hidden from the public package catalog and is not a separately published product.

Start here

• Run the first governed release check
• Capture and review UI evidence
• Audit the exact customer package root
• Gate the same profile in CI
• Add deterministic customer-owned rules

Privacy and network boundary

No account, login, cloud service, or telemetry is required. Network behavior is limited to explicit user-controlled external tooling or absolute URL inputs. Review evidence before sharing it because screenshots, structural text, paths, and project metadata can contain sensitive project information.