Appnz hosting

Skill lee101/appnz-agent-skills/skills/appnz-hosting

Portable Agent Skills for deploying apps, open models, and coding agents on app.nz

Install

npx -y skills add lee101/appnz-agent-skills --skill appnz-hosting

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Deploy and operate open-source projects on app.nz. Use when an agent needs to publish a static site or server app, create or validate appnz.yaml, deploy an open model as a scale-to-zero Cog or RunPod worker, launch a cloud coding agent, connect the app.nz MCP server, or call the OpenAI-compatible model gateway with APP_API_KEY.

SKILL.md

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Deploy on app.nz

Start safely

Read the repository instructions and inspect its build, test, runtime, and license files.
Check for appnz.yaml, Dockerfile, cog.yaml, and appnz.cog.json.
Run app --version and app auth status. If the CLI is absent, install it with:
```
curl -fsSL https://app.nz/cli.sh | sh
```
Ask the user to create a key at https://app.nz/account if authentication is missing. Accept it only through app login --api-key ... or APP_API_KEY; never print, commit, or place it in argv that will be logged.
Read https://app.nz/llms-full.txt when current platform behavior is material.

Choose the smallest deployment path

For a frontend or documentation build, use runtime: static. Read hosting.md.
For an HTTP service, use runtime: server; make it listen on 0.0.0.0 and $PORT. Read hosting.md.
For GPU/open-model inference, use a Cog-compatible image and scale-to-zero deployment. Read models-and-agents.md.
For repository work on a managed machine, launch a bounded coding-agent task. Read models-and-agents.md.
For model API or MCP integration, read gateway-and-mcp.md.

Do not add a platform manifest until the local build and runtime commands are known. Preserve the project's package manager and lockfile.

Deploy and verify

Add or update only the deployment files needed by the chosen path.
Run the repository's focused tests and production build locally.
For UI changes, inspect desktop and mobile screenshots before deploying.
Deploy:
```
app apps deploy .
```
Inspect app apps logs <app> and app apps deploys <app>.
Verify the public URL, health endpoint, important asset routes, and one real user flow. A successful command is not enough if the deployed app is unhealthy.

Publish to the marketplace only when the user requests a public listing:

app apps publish <app> --title "<title>" --category "<category>" --tags "<comma,separated,tags>"

Guardrails

Keep secrets in app.nz environment configuration; commit only secret names under secrets:.
Do not deploy unrelated working-tree changes.
Treat deployments, GPU provisioning, agent runs, purchases, and destructive operations as stateful. Confirm the target and cost boundary first.
Prefer immutable image digests or version tags for production Cogs.
Preserve license and model-weight provenance. Do not deploy weights whose terms prohibit hosted inference.
Report the deployed URL, revision, checks run, health evidence, active resources, likely cost, and rollback command.