Deploy checklist

Skill wednesday-solutions/ai-agent-skills/skills/deploy-checklist

Pre-configured agent skills for Vibe Coded projects. These skills provide AI coding assistants (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.) with specific guidelines for code quality and design standards.

Install

npx -y skills add wednesday-solutions/ai-agent-skills --skill deploy-checklist

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Pre-deploy and post-deploy checklist skill. Ensures env vars, migrations, CI, rollback plan, smoke tests, and monitoring are verified before and after every deployment.

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Deploy Checklist Skill

Trigger

Load this skill when a dev is about to deploy or has just deployed:

"We're deploying to production"
"Pre-deploy check"
"Post-deploy verification"
"Run the deploy checklist"
"Is it safe to deploy?"

Do NOT use this skill for: committing code (use git-os), creating a PR (use pr-create), or planning a project (use greenfield). This skill only applies at the deployment stage — code is already merged.

Run this checklist before and after every production deployment.

Pre-Deploy Checklist

All CI checks green on the deploy branch
Environment variables verified in target environment (no missing keys)
Database migrations reviewed — irreversible migrations documented
Migrations have been dry-run or tested in staging
Rollback plan documented: what to revert and how
Feature flags set correctly for the release
Downstream services notified if API contracts changed
Changelog updated with this release's changes
Deployment window confirmed (avoid peak traffic)

Deploy

Deploy initiated with correct branch / tag
Deployment logs monitored in real time
No unexpected errors during startup

Post-Deploy Checklist

Smoke test: critical user flows verified manually or via synthetic monitoring
Health check endpoint returns 200
Error rate in monitoring (Datadog, Grafana, Sentry) is normal
No spike in latency or DB query time
Monitoring alerts reviewed — no new alerts triggered
Changelog published / communicated to stakeholders
Ticket status updated (closed / released)

Rollback Trigger Criteria

Initiate rollback immediately if:

Error rate rises above 1% of requests
P95 latency increases by more than 2x baseline
Any data integrity issue detected
Critical feature path returns 5xx

Tools

Action	Tool
Run lint, test, build scripts	`Bash`
Check health endpoint	`Bash` — `curl -s <url>/health`
Read config or env files	`Read`
Check CI status	`Bash` — `gh run list` or `gh pr checks`

Notes

Never deploy on Fridays unless it's a critical hotfix
Always have a second engineer available during production deploys
Document the actual deploy time and outcome in the ticket

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