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+---
+id: capability.railiance.knative-rail
+owner: rail-knative
+status: draft
+domain: infotech
+maturity:
+  discovery:
+    current: D3
+    target: D5
+    confidence: medium
+    rationale: Owner scope, neighboring responsibilities, concrete use cases and limitations
+      are documented; no exhaustive or generalized maturity claim.
+  availability:
+    current: A2
+    target: A2
+    confidence: medium
+    rationale: 'Source interface assessed 2026-10-14: Derived rail for activation,
+      revisions, traffic, scaling and rollback. Availability describes the delivery
+      form, not production acceptance. Inherits Kubernetes common contract; verified
+      readiness is not production approval.'
+external_evidence:
+  completeness:
+    level: C1
+    confidence: low
+    basis: Source artifacts establish a bounded capability; no independent consumer-completeness
+      assessment in this review.
+  reliability:
+    level: R0
+    confidence: low
+    basis: No longitudinal consumer reliability measurement established by this review.
+name: Knative workload lifecycle
+summary: Derived rail for activation, revisions, traffic, scaling and rollback.
+tags:
+- security
+- netkingdom
+- framework-reuse
+discovery:
+  intent: Derived rail for activation, revisions, traffic, scaling and rollback
+  includes:
+  - Derived rail for activation, revisions, traffic, scaling and rollback
+  excludes:
+  - Inherits Kubernetes common contract; verified readiness is not production approval
+  use_cases:
+  - 'U09: Maintainer observes posture, prioritizes findings, coordinates work and
+    verifies outcomes'
+  - 'U13: Platform owner deploys and rolls back a workload with explicit substrate
+    and custody bindings'
+  - 'U14: Framework adopter validates and reuses selected contracts, tools and reference
+    compositions'
+availability:
+  current_level: A2
+  target_level: A2
+  current_artifacts:
+  - SCOPE.md
+  - README.md
+  - declarations/rail.yaml
+  consumption_modes:
+  - CLI
+  - source
+relations:
+  related_to:
+  - capability.railiance.kubernetes-rail
+  - capability.railiance.substrate-bindings
+evidence:
+  documentation:
+  - SCOPE.md
+  - README.md
+  - declarations/rail.yaml
+consumer_guidance:
+  recommended_for:
+  - Maintainer observes posture, prioritizes findings, coordinates work and verifies
+    outcomes
+  - Platform owner deploys and rolls back a workload with explicit substrate and custody
+    bindings
+  - Framework adopter validates and reuses selected contracts, tools and reference
+    compositions
+  not_recommended_for:
+  - Inherits Kubernetes common contract; verified readiness is not production approval
+  known_limitations:
+  - Inherits Kubernetes common contract; verified readiness is not production approval
+  - 2026-10-14 architecture review estimates operational maturity separately; a registry
+    entry does not authorize execution or establish deployment.
+---
+
+# Knative workload lifecycle
+
+Derived rail for activation, revisions, traffic, scaling and rollback.
+
+## Reuse boundary
+
+Inherits Kubernetes common contract; verified readiness is not production approval.
+
+## Supported use cases
+
+- U09: Maintainer observes posture, prioritizes findings, coordinates work and verifies outcomes
+- U13: Platform owner deploys and rolls back a workload with explicit substrate and custody bindings
+- U14: Framework adopter validates and reuses selected contracts, tools and reference compositions
+
+## Evidence and integration
+
+- [SCOPE.md](../../SCOPE.md)
+- [README.md](../../README.md)
+- [declarations/rail.yaml](../../declarations/rail.yaml)
+
+Assessment: CUST-WP-0081, 2026-10-14. Relations identify interfaces to compose; they do not certify native integration. Existing external evidence levels are retained where present. New entries use conservative C1/R0 until consumer assessment exists.
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+version: 1
+domain: infotech
+capabilities:
+- id: capability.railiance.knative-rail
+  name: Knative workload lifecycle
+  summary: Derived rail for activation, revisions, traffic, scaling and rollback.
+  domain: infotech
+  status: draft
+  owner: rail-knative
+  tags:
+  - security
+  - netkingdom
+  - framework-reuse
+  vector: D3 / A2 / C1 / R0
+  path: registry/capabilities/capability.railiance.knative-rail.md
+  consumption_modes:
+  - CLI
+  - source
+updated: '2026-10-14'