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.
npx skills add aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts --skill canary-deploymentgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aj-geddes/useful-ai-promptsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts/canary-deployment)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts/canary-deployment"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts/canary-deployment/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts/canary-deployment"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts/canary-deployment.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- Socket pass
- Snyk warn
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00027 | $0.00491 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00011 | $0.00196 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00098 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00049 |
Grade A, and why
canary-deployment 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 2mo ago.
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.
What it actually says
Canary Deployment
Table of Contents
Overview
Deploy new versions gradually to a small percentage of users, monitor metrics for issues, and automatically rollback or proceed based on predefined thresholds.
When to Use
- Low-risk gradual rollouts
- Real-world testing with live traffic
- Automatic rollback on errors
- User impact minimization
- A/B testing integration
- Metrics-driven deployments
- High-traffic services
Quick Start
Minimal working example:
# canary-deployment-istio.yaml
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: myapp-v1
namespace: production
spec:
replicas: 3
selector:
matchLabels:
app: myapp
version: v1
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: myapp
version: v1
spec:
containers:
- name: myapp
image: myrepo/myapp:1.0.0
ports:
- containerPort: 8080
---
// ... (see reference guides for full implementation)
Reference Guides
Detailed implementations in the references/ directory:
| Guide | Contents |
|---|---|
| Istio-based Canary Deployment | Istio-based Canary Deployment |
| Kubernetes Native Canary Script | Kubernetes Native Canary Script |
| Metrics-Based Canary Analysis | Metrics-Based Canary Analysis |
| Automated Canary Promotion | Automated Canary Promotion |
Best Practices
✅ DO
- Follow established patterns and conventions
- Write clean, maintainable code
- Add appropriate documentation
- Test thoroughly before deploying
❌ DON'T
- Skip testing or validation
- Ignore error handling
- Hard-code configuration values
What ships with it
6 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
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.
- 2mo ago First seen · 90 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 98a3dd8b5a23
canary-deployment is a skill published in the GitHub repository aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts (376 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 491 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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