agentic-coding-playbook: Skill for Claude Code

.agents/skills/federal-pre-deployment-check/SKILL.md

federal-pre-deployment-check is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from GSA-TTS/agentic-coding-playbook. It costs 23 tokens per session (1,622 once invoked), scanned A, original, CC0-1.0.

A 62-item security checklist for code that an AI agent helped create or change. It combines automated checks, file and configuration review, and questions that a person must verify.

In plain words
What is it for?
Checking whether an AI-assisted codebase is ready to deploy, including automated security commands, configuration review, and manual sign-off items.
Why use it?
It gives deployment and code reviews a consistent way to find security gaps. It separates checks the agent can run from those that require human judgment.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents); mentions AGENTS.md.

This is GSA-TTS/agentic-coding-playbook's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on agentic-coding-playbook itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything agentic-coding-playbook configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to GSA-TTS/agentic-coding-playbook. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GSA-TTS/agentic-coding-playbook/main/.agents/skills/federal-pre-deployment-check/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GSA-TTS/agentic-coding-playbook

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,622 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
  • 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 $0.00023 $0.01622
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00811
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00324
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00162

Measured 10d ago against content hash dc990ab7c972, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

federal-pre-deployment-check 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 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/generate-checklist-report.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

.agents/skills/federal-pre-deployment-check/SKILL.md · 173 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 173 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Federal Pre-Deployment Check

This skill executes the 62-item pre-deployment security checklist from checklists/pre-deployment.md, combining automated tool checks with human-verified items to produce a completed checklist report.

When to Use

  • Before deploying code that was generated or modified with AI agent assistance
  • As part of a PR review process for AI-assisted changes
  • When a user asks "is this code ready to deploy?"
  • When performing a security review of the codebase

Check Classification

See references/CHECK_AUTOMATION.md for the full classification of every checklist item. Summary:

Type Count How It Works
Automated 18 Agent runs a tool, checks exit code or output
Semi-automated 24 Agent reads files or config, reports findings
Manual 18 Agent asks the human to verify

Execution Procedure

Step 1: Collect Deployment Information

Ask the user for:

  • System name
  • Release/version being deployed
  • AI agent that was used
  • Files that were agent-authored (or PR number)

Step 2: Run Automated Checks

Run make pre-deploy to execute all automatable checks:

make pre-deploy

The script checks for:

  • Secrets in source code (gitleaks or grep-based fallback)
  • Pre-commit hooks installed and configured
  • .gitignore with required patterns
  • Lock file present
  • Dependency vulnerabilities (language-specific audit tool)
  • Test suite passes
  • SAST scan (if tool available)

Output is structured JSON with pass/fail for each automated check.

Step 3: Run Semi-Automated Checks

For each semi-automated check, read the relevant files and report findings:

Category 1 — Code Review and Provenance:

  • Check for AI attribution (PR description, AGENTS.md, or git log for Co-Authored-By) (item 1.2)
  • Check branch protection config or recent commit history (item 1.4)

Category 3 — Input Validation:

  • Search for eval(, innerHTML, string concatenation in SQL (items 3.2, 3.5)
  • Search for path handling without validation (item 3.4)

Read the full file on GitHub · 173 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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.

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. 10d ago First seen · 173 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A dc990ab7c972

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federal-pre-deployment-check is a skill published in the GitHub repository GSA-TTS/agentic-coding-playbook (25 stars, last pushed today), licensed CC0-1.0. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 1,622 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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