Release gate

Skill wakqasahmed/ai-engineering-workflow-skills/skills/engineering/release-gate

Check deployment, staging, rollback, and health verification before release. Use for user-facing, infrastructure, CI/CD, integration, or high-risk changes.From its SKILL.md

Install

npx -y skills add wakqasahmed/ai-engineering-workflow-skills --skill release-gate

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SKILL.md

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Release Gate

Use this before staging or production release.

Workflow

Confirm the reviewed commit or artifact being released.
Confirm environment and deployment mechanism.
Run the smallest deployment validation available.
Smoke-test the critical route or workflow.
Record rollback path.
Create a HITL issue if deployment needs missing human-held access.

Required For Medium/High Risk

CI status
Review status
Target environment
Smoke test command
Rollback command or previous artifact
Health check signal

Guardrails

Prefer deploying reviewed artifacts over rebuilding unreviewed source.
Do not deploy production from unreviewed PRs.
Do not silently work around missing secrets, DNS, or account permissions.
Test database safety (disposable/dedicated storage, staging backup timing) follows system-level/core.md (Test Database Safety) — this gate does not relax it.

What ships with it: 10 files

28.4 KB alongside SKILL.md, 6 of them executable