backend-deployment-safety-review

backend-deployment-safety-review is a skill for Claude Code from infraspecdev/tesseract. It costs 62 tokens per session (986 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review guide for making backend changes safe to release while old and new application versions may run together.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for reviewing API and database evolution, migration rollout plans, configuration changes, rollback paths, and behavior across multiple running instances.
Why use it?
It helps reduce failed rollouts by checking compatibility, rollback options, feature flags, and the scope of risky changes.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the shield plugin — 36 skills, 17 commands, 22 agents shipped together

Good fit It is for reviewing API and database evolution, migration rollout plans, configuration changes, rollback paths, and behavior across multiple running instances.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/infraspecdev/tesseract/deployment-safety-review
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.

Any agent
npx skills add infraspecdev/tesseract --skill deployment-safety-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/infraspecdev/tesseract

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install shield, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 36 skills, 17 commands, 22 agents.

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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 986 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.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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What it costs to keep this loaded

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00062 $0.00986
Opus 5.5 $0.00025 $0.00394
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00197
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00099

Measured 1mo ago against content hash a423075ed6a2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backend-deployment-safety-review 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.

shield/skills/backend/deployment-safety-review/SKILL.md · 78 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 78 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Backend Deployment Safety Review

Overview

Review backend changes for safe deployment in production: feature flag readiness for risky behavior changes, backwards-compatible evolution of public APIs and database schemas, rollback paths, blast-radius scoping, and correctness across multiple application instances.

Framework-agnostic: applies to any service that ships through a CD pipeline with rolling deploys, blue/green, or canary rollouts.

When to Use

  • Reviewing changes that affect public API contracts
  • Reviewing migration files (Flyway, Liquibase, Alembic)
  • Reviewing config files / config beans / static toggles
  • Pre-implementation: planning rollout strategy

When NOT to Use

  • Internal scripts run once on a developer machine — different concerns
  • Pure documentation / comment-only changes
  • Operational deploy mechanics (Helm chart, K8s rollout strategy) — use kubernetes domain skills

Review Process

  1. Inventory: API contract changes, migration files, config files, beans with state
  2. For each, apply Evaluation Points S1–S10
  3. Cross-cut: ensure the change can roll back in <5 minutes; ensure two consecutive versions can run side-by-side

Evaluation Points

# Check What to Look For Severity
S1 Feature flag for risky changes Behavior changes that affect business logic gated behind a runtime flag with default-off High
S2 API backwards compatibility Existing endpoints unchanged, OR new endpoints added alongside, OR Sunset/Deprecation headers + transition window High
S3 Schema migration safety Adds are safe; column drops/renames use expand/contract pattern across two deploys; no data loss without explicit migration High
S4 Rollback path Code change is reversible. If the migration is not reversible, the application code must tolerate the old schema for the rollback window High
S5 Blast radius Change is scoped to a small set of users/tenants/endpoints first (canary, percentage rollout) when impact is uncertain Medium
S6 Multi-instance state safety No process-local mutable state shared across requests in a multi-instance deploy. In-memory caches must be acknowledged and bounded; sticky sessions must be deliberate High
S7 Configuration externalization Config that varies per environment lives in env vars / config server, not committed source Medium
S8 Migration ordering Code that reads new schema deploys after migration; code that writes old schema deploys before drop migrations High
S9 Idempotent deploy hooks Startup hooks, init containers, schema bootstrap can run multiple times safely Medium
S10 No global side effects on import Importing a module / loading a class doesn't mutate the world (e.g., no DB writes in a static initializer) Medium

Read the full file on GitHub · 78 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 · 78 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A a423075ed6a2

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backend-deployment-safety-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository infraspecdev/tesseract (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 986 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 2026-09-03.

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