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@@ -78,14 +78,7 @@ tea pr create --base dev --title "..." --body "... cc @cpfarhood"
 
 ### Phase 5 — Production Deployment
 
-1. **Engineer** opens a PR against `groombook/infra` to update the relevant Kustomize overlay with the new image tag.
-2. **CI** fail → back to **Engineer** (return to Phase 1).
-3. **CI** pass → **QA** performs code review.
-4. **QA** rejected → back to **Engineer** (return to Phase 1).
-5. **QA** approved → **Engineer** merges PR.
-6. **Flux** reconciles `groombook/infra` on merge and rolls out the updated pods to production (`https://demo.groombook.dev`).
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-See the `devops` skill for the infrastructure pipeline that governs the `groombook/infra` PR in this phase, and for Flux reconciliation behavior.
+The **Engineer** opens a PR against `groombook/infra` to update the relevant Kustomize overlay with the new image tag. From this point the work follows the **`devops` skill pipeline** end-to-end — review, merge, and Flux reconciliation are all owned there. On merge, Flux rolls out the updated pods to production (`https://demo.groombook.dev`).
 
 ## Stage 1 CI — Image build