deploy-checklist

A pre-deployment checklist that verifies a code change before it is released.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for tailoring release checks to the project's technology stack, reviewing files in the deployment diff, and adding resiliency checks for high-risk changes.
Why use it?
It helps catch affected modules, new dependency cycles, and risky hotspots before deployment, while checking when a rollback may be needed.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,111 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 $0.00032 $0.03111
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.01555
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00622
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00311

Measured yesterday against content hash 7231b22bb407, 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.

skills/deploy-checklist/SKILL.md · 263 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 263 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Deploy Checklist

You are generating a pre-deployment verification checklist customized to this project's technology stack.

MANDATORY GRAPH LOOKUP (read before Phase 1)

When draft/graph/schema.yaml exists, this skill must follow the graph-first lookup contract in core/shared/graph-query.md §Mandatory Lookup Contract. Use the graph to validate module boundaries before the deploy:

  1. For each file in the deploy diff, run "$DRAFT_TOOLS/graph-impact.sh" --repo . --file <path> to enumerate the modules affected — flag any module not declared in hld.md §Detailed Design as a deployment-scope miss.
  2. Run "$DRAFT_TOOLS/cycle-detect.sh" --repo . (and query "$DRAFT_TOOLS/graph-arch.sh" --repo . for the module overview) to ensure no fresh cycles were introduced after HLD sign-off.
  3. Run "$DRAFT_TOOLS/hotspot-rank.sh" --repo . — any hotspot in the diff escalates the Resiliency row of Phase 0.

Filesystem grep is reserved for source-text scans (migration file names, flag-key strings). Module/impact discovery goes through the graph.

Red Flags — STOP if you're

See shared red flags — applies to all code-touching skills.

Skill-specific:

  • Deploying without a rollback plan
  • Skipping database migration verification
  • Deploying on Friday without explicit team approval
  • Pushing to production without monitoring in place
  • Ignoring failed checklist items marked as critical

Every deployment needs a rollback plan. No exceptions.


Pre-Check

0. Capture Git Context

Before starting, capture the current git state:

git branch --show-current # Current branch name
git rev-parse --short HEAD # Current commit hash

Store this for the checklist header. The checklist is scoped to this specific branch/commit.

1. Verify Draft Context

ls draft/ 2>/dev/null

If draft/ doesn't exist, this skill can still run standalone — generate a generic checklist.

Read the full file on GitHub · 263 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 · 263 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 7231b22bb407

Subscribe to this mod's changes

deploy-checklist is a skill published in the GitHub repository drafthq/draft (40 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 3,111 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.