[mintlify]

The agent skill's "what is live" guidance now says that merging an editor sub-branch into its parent branch doesn't change the live site until the parent merges into the deploy branch. This follows the new sub-branches docs. No mint-instructions topic states this fact, so none changed.

Based on docs: document sub-branches in the editor. Duplicate check: open and recently merged mintlify[bot] PRs, including Autopilot's code-driven ones, don't cover this.

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Documentation-only change to agent skill reference text; no runtime or product code paths.

Overview
Updates the Mintlify agent skill reference so “what is live” matches the editor’s sub-branch behavior.

The first bullet now states that changes on a non-deploy branch only go live when merged into the deploy branch, and adds that editor sub-branches may open PRs against their parent branch—merging there does not update the live site until the parent later merges to deploy. The “is this live” guidance is also tightened so agents must not claim something is live when it only landed on another branch.

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[github-actions]

This PR changes the Mintlify skill but no mint instructions topic. Agents read both, so check whether the matching topic in mint-instructions/ needs the same change. If not, ignore this comment.

Changed skill file	Likely topics
agent-context/context/skills/mintlify/reference/publishing-and-review.md	publish, new-site