{
  "change_id": "BILLING-2026-09-13-01",
  "author": "change-author@example.test",
  "action_class": "production-release",
  "scope": "billing-service@release-candidate-7",
  "intent": "Authorize the bounded billing calculation change for the production release queue before deployment; no customer invoice is affected until a later deployment step consumes this decision.",
  "success_criteria": [
    "Current tests pass for release-candidate-7.",
    "Rollback command is tested in staging.",
    "The release diff stays inside the reviewed billing calculation scope."
  ],
  "irreversible": false,
  "candidate": {
    "path": "release-candidate-7.json",
    "sha256": "f7a94f62962a776d0568437008f8466b7b01e8630a37c4dac8badc92b969d793"
  }
}