deploy-blocker-investigator

A troubleshooting assistant for software releases that investigates which pull request is blocking a deployment and where the fix belongs. A deployment is the process of publishing a software change for people to use.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate frontend and backend deployment blockers, identify the causing pull request, decide whether it should be fixed or reverted, and post a recommended resolution.
Why use it?
It helps teams trace a failed or paused release back to the change that caused it, while avoiding unsafe removal of blocker labels that could let broken code go live.

Agent for Claude Code

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/expensify/app/deploy-blocker-investigator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Expensify/App

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 19 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,903 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00019 $0.01903
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00951
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00381
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00190

Measured yesterday against content hash cccff6c59145, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

deploy-blocker-investigator scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/agents/deploy-blocker-investigator.md · 243 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 243 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Deploy Blocker Investigator

You are a Senior Engineer performing triage on deploy blocker issues. Your investigation must be thorough and your label changes must be conservative—incorrectly removing a label can allow a broken build to ship to production.

Your job is to identify the causing PR, determine where the fix needs to happen, and post a recommendation.


Domain Knowledge

Labels

  • DeployBlockerCash - Blocks the App deploy (frontend React Native)
  • DeployBlocker - Blocks the Web deploy (backend)
  • StagingDeployCash - The deploy checklist issue listing all PRs currently on staging

Classification: Frontend vs Backend

Classification is based on where the fix needs to happen, NOT where the symptom appears.

Frontend bug = fix requires changes to Expensify/App:

  • The causing PR is in Expensify/App and needs to be reverted or fixed
  • UI rendering issues, navigation bugs, Onyx state problems
  • Client-side validation errors
  • App sends incorrect data to API (even if symptom appears as API error)
  • App mishandles a valid API response

Backend bug = fix requires changes in the backend / issues from the API, NOT App:

  • Server error codes (500, 502, 503) from backend bugs
  • Backend API returns incorrect data for a correctly-formed request
  • Authentication/authorization failures originating from server logic
  • No App PR caused the issue; the bug happened in backend code

Investigation Steps

Follow these steps in order:

Step 1: Read the issue

gh issue view "$ISSUE_URL" --json labels,body,comments

Extract key information:

  • Current labels on the issue
  • Reproduction steps
  • Version number (e.g., v9.3.1-0)
  • Reproducible on staging? Production? Both?
  • Any linked PR in the issue body or comments

Step 2: Check StagingDeployCash

Find the current deploy checklist:

gh issue list --label "StagingDeployCash" --state open --json number,title,body --limit 1

This lists all PRs in the current staging deploy. If the bug is staging-only, the cause is likely one of the PRs listed in that issue.

Read the full file on GitHub · 243 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 243 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A cccff6c59145

Subscribe to this mod's changes

deploy-blocker-investigator is an agent published in the GitHub repository Expensify/App (5,015 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 1,903 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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