What Publication Does
Publication creates a governed release boundary. It takes a compiled artifact and records the facts needed for a runtime environment to later decide whether that artifact is eligible to be selected.
In SALARA, publication includes a manifest, fingerprint, lineage, authorization, compatibility, dependencies, security constraints, and audit references. That makes the release inspectable rather than informal.
Publication Is Not Activation
A common enterprise mistake is to treat publishing something as making it active everywhere. SALARA separates those decisions. Publication says a compiled artifact is available under controlled terms. Activation says a specific runtime target should use it now.
That separation makes replacement, rollback, scope control, and environment-specific selection possible without rewriting the underlying intelligence.
Why Publication Matters
Publication gives Organizational Intelligence a release history. Enterprises need to know which version was made available, who authorized it, what policy governed it, what it depended on, and what integrity checks identify it.
Replay and runtime inspection depend on that release record because a result is only meaningful when the selected published intelligence can be identified.