Deploy Checklist Agent Skill

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.

704 tokens

context cost

the whole folder, loaded on every use

files

instructions only

copies elsewhere

how many repositories repackaged it

164

stars on the repo

on the repository, not the skill itself

Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository

npx skills add https://github.com/wednesday-solutions/ai-agent-skills --skill deploy-checklist

The instruction itself

8 sections, as written by the author

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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How to use it

Copy the folder

Take wednesday-solutions/deploy-checklist from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

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