Never Count a Draft as Live

Command note: a tool that reports "done" is quoting its own request, not the account.

We shipped v3.84.2 today. It went through every place we report something as done, verified, ready or published and checked the claim against a second read of what GoHighLevel actually holds. Thirteen of them were repeating the write's own response back to us.

The sharpest one:

• A build report said "Published N workflow(s) live"

• The publish step had already read one back as a draft and said NOT LIVE

• The build threw that answer away and counted it anyway

The other one worth knowing: a workflow can save as "published" with every trigger still inactive. Status says published. Nothing enrolls anybody. We now name the inactive triggers and report the active count next to the step count.

The habit works without our tool:

1) Never take "success" from the thing that did the work — read it back from somewhere else

2) For any workflow: confirm the status reads published, then confirm at least one trigger reads active

3) Enroll one test contact — a published workflow nobody can enter is a draft with better paperwork

4) When you cannot confirm it, write "unconfirmed" instead of "done"

A green check is a claim. A read is evidence.

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Never Count a Draft as Live