vercel-deploy

vercel-deploy is a skill for Claude Code from lukedj78/dev-flow. It costs 239 tokens per session (4,840 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A release procedure for putting a Next.js web app into production on Vercel, a service that hosts web applications. It covers preview testing, a staged release, sending it live, domains, DNS, and rollback instructions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to deploy a completed Next.js app, promote a tested release, connect domains and DNS, and recover from a faulty deployment.
Why use it?
It organizes the checks and deployment stages needed to release an app safely, including a smoke test—a quick check that the main site functions—and a way to undo a release.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python3 .../dev-flow/scripts/update_meta.py <project-root> set-phase deployed.

Part of the dev-flow plugin — 55 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to deploy a completed Next.js app, promote a tested release, connect domains and DNS, and recover from a faulty deployment.

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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/lukedj78/dev-flow
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lukedj78/dev-flow/vercel-deploy

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dev-flow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 55 skills.

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Per session 239 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,840 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 169
    Skill allows unbounded resource consumption (API calls, storage, compute). Without rate limits or quotas, a compromised or misbehaving agent can cause denial-of-service or cost overruns.
    Fix: Set explicit rate limits, timeouts, and resource quotas for API calls, file operations, and compute. Implement circuit breakers for runaway loops.
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 $0.00239 $0.04840
Opus 5.5 $0.00096 $0.01936
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00048 $0.00968
Haiku 4.5 $0.00024 $0.00484

Measured 3d ago against content hash c0641b24a0ae, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vercel-deploy scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 3d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -sS -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}\n' https://<production-domain>/
vercel-deploy/SKILL.md · 291 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 291 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

vercel-deploy — ship the web app to production on Vercel

The web counterpart of rn-eas-deploy. It is the only skill that moves a web project to phase = "deployed".

Versions checked 2026-08-04: Vercel CLI 58.5.1. Docs: https://vercel.com/docs/cli/deploy, https://vercel.com/docs/cli/deploying-from-cli, https://vercel.com/docs/cli/promote, https://vercel.com/docs/cli/rollback, https://vercel.com/docs/deployments/promoting-a-deployment, https://vercel.com/docs/instant-rollback, https://vercel.com/docs/git, https://vercel.com/docs/domains/working-with-domains/add-a-domain.

Scope — read this first

This skill ships. It does not configure.

Concern Owner
vercel.json, function region, env-var matrix per environment, monorepo Root Directory, project linking module-add deploy — run it first
husky, lint-staged, GitHub Actions module-add ci
cost/perf gate before shipping vercel-doctor
legal/privacy gate before shipping compliance-audit
UI-quality / accessibility gate before shipping shadscan
launch-readiness gate before shipping launch-audit
code-security gate before shipping (dependencies, secrets, authorization) app-security
preview → smoke → staged production → promote, domains + DNS, rollback, phase = "deployed" this skill

If vercel.json or .vercel/project.json is missing, do not improvise them here — say so and route to module-add deploy. Two skills writing the same config is how the region silently changes between runs.

Contract

See references/contracts.md. Key facts:

  • Reads <project-root>/.workflow/meta.json#stack.framework — must be "next" or "monorepo".
  • Requires meta.json#phase >= "feature_complete".
  • Sets meta.json#stack.deploy = "vercel" and phase = "deployed" only after the production domain actually serves the deployment.
  • Records stack_config.production_url + stack_config.vercel_project and appends history.
  • Idempotent: re-running on an already-deployed project becomes a release run (deploy → promote), and skips domain setup that is already verified.

Read the full file on GitHub · 291 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 3d ago Changed · +6 lines · +4 tokens per session c0641b24a0ae
  2. 4d ago Changed · +5 tokens per session c49a463d4605
  3. 17d ago Changed · +7 lines 4ceb23d41283
  4. 1mo ago First seen · 278 lines · 230 tokens per session scan A 307518031a18

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vercel-deploy is a skill published in the GitHub repository lukedj78/dev-flow (6 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 239 tokens to every session and 4,840 once invoked, about $0.0010 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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