Development lifecycle stage for governance and promotion workflows.
LIFECYCLE productionThe LIFECYCLE clause declares the development lifecycle stage of the pipeline, supporting governance and promotion workflows. Valid values span from early development through production and end-of-life: `development` (or `dev`), `testing` (or `test`), `staging`, `production` (or `prod`), `deprecated`, and `archived`. When omitted, the lifecycle defaults to `development`. The lifecycle stage is stored in the catalog and can be used by teams to filter pipelines by maturity, enforce approval policies, or gate deployments. It is independent of STATUS; for example, a pipeline can be in the `production` lifecycle while temporarily having STATUS `paused`.