Deploy preview

Skill zakelfassi/skills-driven-development/examples/webapp-starter/skills/deploy-preview

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Install

npx -y skills add zakelfassi/skills-driven-development --skill deploy-preview

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Deploy a preview branch to the staging environment for review. Use when a feature branch is ready for visual review, when someone asks to "deploy this for review", or before opening a PR.

SKILL.md

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Deploy Preview

Deploy the current branch to a preview URL for review before merging.

Inputs

Branch name (defaults to current branch)
Environment (defaults to staging)

Steps

Verify branch is clean
```
git status --porcelain
```
If dirty, commit or stash before proceeding.
Run tests locally
```
npm test
```
Do not deploy if tests fail.
Push to remote
```
git push origin HEAD
```
Trigger preview deploy
```
scripts/deploy-preview.sh
```
This builds, uploads, and returns a preview URL.
Verify the preview
- Open the preview URL
- Check: page loads, no console errors, key feature works
- If broken: fix locally, re-push, re-deploy
Share the preview URL
- Post in the PR description
- Or share in the team channel

Conventions

Preview URLs follow the pattern: preview-{branch}.staging.example.com
Preview deploys expire after 7 days
Only one preview per branch (re-deploying replaces the previous)

Edge Cases

Branch name has slashes: The deploy script sanitizes / to -
Large assets: Preview deploys skip video files >50MB
Environment variables: Preview uses staging env vars, not production