deploy-checklist

deploy-checklist is a skill for Claude Code from anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins. It costs 46 tokens per session (551 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A checklist for verifying that a software release is ready to deploy. Deployment means publishing a change to an environment such as staging or production.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan pre-deployment checks, staging and production verification, post-deployment follow-up, and conditions that should trigger a rollback.
Why use it?
It helps teams check tests, approvals, migrations, feature flags, monitoring, and rollback plans before shipping. This reduces the chance of releasing an unverified change or being unprepared when it fails.

Skill for Claude Code ✓ vendor

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is If you see unfamiliar placeholders or need to check which tools are connected, see [CONNECTORS.md](../../CONNECTORS.md)..

Part of the engineering plugin — 10 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan pre-deployment checks, staging and production verification, post-deployment follow-up, and conditions that should trigger a rollback.

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About the project

Knowledge Work Plugins is an open-source collection of Claude extensions organized around roles such as productivity, sales, and customer support. Each plugin combines role-specific guidance, connectors, commands, and sub-agents so knowledge workers can use Claude with their team’s tools and processes. The catalogue entries are examples of, or workflows from, this plugin collection.

anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins · 30,179 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/deploy-checklist

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install engineering, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills.

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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 551 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 15 Sept 2026
  • Snyk warn 15 Sept 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00046 $0.00551
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00220
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00110
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00055

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 85ca53dc4719, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

deploy-checklist 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 1mo 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

5 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

engineering/skills/deploy-checklist/SKILL.md · 79 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 79 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/deploy-checklist

If you see unfamiliar placeholders or need to check which tools are connected, see CONNECTORS.md.

Generate a pre-deployment checklist to verify readiness before shipping.

Usage

/deploy-checklist $ARGUMENTS

Output

## Deploy Checklist: [Service/Release]
**Date:** [Date] | **Deployer:** [Name]

### Pre-Deploy
- [ ] All tests passing in CI
- [ ] Code reviewed and approved
- [ ] No known critical bugs in release
- [ ] Database migrations tested (if applicable)
- [ ] Feature flags configured (if applicable)
- [ ] Rollback plan documented
- [ ] On-call team notified

### Deploy
- [ ] Deploy to staging and verify
- [ ] Run smoke tests
- [ ] Deploy to production (canary if available)
- [ ] Monitor error rates and latency for 15 min
- [ ] Verify key user flows

### Post-Deploy
- [ ] Confirm metrics are nominal
- [ ] Update release notes / changelog
- [ ] Notify stakeholders
- [ ] Close related tickets

### Rollback Triggers
- Error rate exceeds [X]%
- P50 latency exceeds [X]ms
- [Critical user flow] fails

Customization

Tell me about your deploy and I'll customize the checklist:

  • "We use feature flags" → adds flag verification steps
  • "This includes a database migration" → adds migration-specific checks
  • "This is a breaking API change" → adds consumer notification steps

If Connectors Available

If ~~source control is connected:

  • Pull the release diff and list of changes
  • Verify all PRs are approved and merged

If ~~CI/CD is connected:

  • Check build and test status automatically
  • Verify pipeline is green before deploy

If ~~monitoring is connected:

  • Pre-fill rollback trigger thresholds from current baselines
  • Set up post-deploy metric watch

Tips

  1. Run before every deploy — Even routine ones. Checklists prevent "I forgot to..."
  2. Customize once, reuse — Tell me your stack and I'll remember your deploy process.
  3. Include rollback criteria — Decide when to roll back before you deploy, not during.

Read the full file on GitHub · 79 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. 1mo ago First seen · 79 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 85ca53dc4719

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deploy-checklist is a skill published in the GitHub repository anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins (30,179 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 551 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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