deploy-checklist

A pre-deployment checklist for moving software from testing to production, the live environment used by customers. Production deployment still requires approval from a human.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review a release, deploy to staging, check logs and the real user flow, request production approval, monitor the rollout, and record what happened.
Why use it?
It helps catch failed tests, unsafe database changes, missing environment variables, unresolved work markers, and missing rollback plans before release.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/codejunkie99/agentic-stack/deploy-checklist
Any agent
npx skills add codejunkie99/agentic-stack --skill deploy-checklist
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/codejunkie99/agentic-stack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 3 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 370 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 $0.00003 $0.00370
Opus 5 $0.00002 $0.00185
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00074
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00037

Measured yesterday against content hash dea800713e89, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 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.

.agent/skills/deploy-checklist/SKILL.md · 40 lines

What it actually says

Deploy Checklist — the fence between staging and prod

Run this checklist before any deploy. The production deploy itself is gated by a human approval step enforced in protocols/permissions.md.

Pre-deploy checks

  • All tests passing locally and in CI.
  • No unresolved TODOs or FIXMEs in the diff.
  • Migrations are reversible, or an explicit rollback plan is documented.
  • Env vars for new features are set in the target environment.
  • Feature flags default to off for anything user-visible.
  • Changelog or release notes updated.

Staging deploy

  • Deploy. Watch logs for 5 minutes. Click through the new flow in a real browser.
  • If anything looks off, roll back and investigate. Do not push through.

Production deploy

  • This step requires human approval. The agent must ask, not assume.
  • Deploy during a low-traffic window when possible.
  • Watch error rate and latency dashboards for 15 minutes post-deploy.
  • Be ready to rollback in one command; have the rollback command pre-typed.

Post-deploy

  • Log the deploy (version, time, who approved) to episodic memory with importance: 8.
  • If anything went wrong, run the debug-investigator loop and update this checklist with the new step that would have caught it.

Self-rewrite hook

After any rollback, this checklist is missing a step. Add it.

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 · 40 lines · 3 tokens per session scan A dea800713e89

Subscribe to this mod's changes

deploy-checklist is a skill published in the GitHub repository codejunkie99/agentic-stack (2,241 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 3 tokens to every session and 370 once invoked, about $0.0000 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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