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 ## Required
 
 - [Require the release gate](/quest/m0/ci/release-gates.md) - condition: the next cut carries `release-gate.yml`; then release PRs require it
-- [Seed release with API reports](/quest/m0/ci/release-api-seed.md) - the first cut's API diff has a baseline on `release`
 - [Build queue entries concurrently](/quest/m0/ci/queue-concurrency.md) - the queue builds two or more entries at once instead of one
 - [Measure nightly compiler levers](/quest/m0/ci/nightly-levers.md) - the parallel frontend and Cranelift, adopted only if the numbers beat their risks
 - [Bump to the manifest fix](/quest/m0/ci/mbx-bump.md) - condition: an mbx release contains jdx/mr-boxington#798; then bump the Rust cache's pin
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-# [S] Seed release with API reports
-
-## Goal
-
-`release` carries its own committed API reports and the per-PR report check,
-so the first cut's API diff compares against a baseline instead of nothing.
-
-## Plan
-
-- Decided by the maintainer on [moq-dev/moq#6477](https://github.com/moq-dev/moq/pull/6477):
-  seed `release` once with a small backport. Today main has 36 `.api.md`
-  reports and release has none, and `sh/api-diff/run.sh` reads them from
-  `origin/release`.
-- Backport `js/common/api.ts` and the report check, and commit the reports
-  generated from release's own sources.