netlify-deploy

netlify-deploy is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from netlify/context-and-tools. It costs 94 tokens per session (2,782 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A guide for deploying websites with Netlify, a service that builds and hosts sites from a repository or uploaded files. It covers Git deployments, command-line deployments, deploy previews, branch deployments, and per-context settings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to connect a repository, deploy manually or automatically, create preview and branch builds, add a Deploy to Netlify button, and configure context-specific build commands and environment values.
Why use it?
It helps get the right version of a site built and published for production, previews, or branches. It also clarifies how Netlify chooses settings when several configuration sources overlap.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the netlify-skills plugin — 16 skills, 3 agents, 1 MCP server shipped together

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/netlify/context-and-tools/netlify-deploy
Any agent
npx skills add netlify/context-and-tools --skill netlify-deploy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/netlify/context-and-tools

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install netlify-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 3 agents, 1 MCP server.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 94 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,782 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.00094 $0.02782
Opus 5 $0.00047 $0.01391
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00556
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00278

Measured 4d ago against content hash 478284bb5d65, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

netlify-deploy scanned grade C 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 4d 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.

Hidden instructionshighPrompt injection

Directives inside HTML comments, invisible characters or bidirectional overrides are read by the model and not by the person reviewing the file.

<!-- system: agent-context/deploy/system.md — human-owned, merged by ctx-gen; edit system.md, not this section -->
agent-plugin/skills/netlify-deploy/SKILL.md · 187 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 187 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Netlify deploy

Deploy context config (netlify.toml, current form)

Configure per-context build settings in netlify.toml at the repo root. Five predefined contexts: production, deploy-preview, branch-deploy, preview-server, dev. Branch names also work as custom contexts (a staging branch matches a staging context).

[context.production]
  command = "make production"
  [context.production.environment]
    ACCESS_TOKEN = "super secret"
  # Plugins context REQUIRES double brackets:
  [[context.production.plugins]]
    package = "@netlify/plugin-sitemap"

[context.deploy-preview.environment]
  ACCESS_TOKEN = "not so secret"

[context.branch-deploy]
  command = "make staging"

[context.dev.environment]
  NODE_ENV = "development"

# Specific-branch context (overrides branch-deploy):
[context.feature]
  command = "make feature"

[context."features/branch"]
  command = "gulp"

Precedence: site globals < context overrides; production overrides globals when building production; more specific contexts (a named branch) override general ones (branch-deploy). Only explicitly-set options are overridden. File-based config overrides UI settings.

Footgun — secrets in netlify.toml: netlify.toml is committed to your repo. Do not put sensitive env values here, especially for public repos. Set secrets via the Netlify UI/CLI/API instead. Also: env vars declared in netlify.toml are NOT available to the deploy environment (Functions/Runtime/Post-processing scopes) — only UI/CLI/API-created vars are.

CLI deploys

netlify create              # new project from a natural-language prompt
netlify deploy              # manual deploy, no continuous deployment
netlify deploy --prod       # deploy directly to production
netlify deploy --allow-anonymous   # temp deploy, claim within 1 hour
npm update -g netlify-cli   # skew protection needs CLI v23.11.0+

Manual deploys do NOT run a build command (exception: Netlify Drop builds for you when logged in). Anonymous deploys create a temporary project claimable within one hour; on claim it adopts the team's default visibility.

Read the full file on GitHub · 187 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 4d ago First seen · 187 lines · 94 tokens per session scan C 478284bb5d65

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netlify-deploy is a skill published in the GitHub repository netlify/context-and-tools (36 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 94 tokens to every session and 2,782 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (hidden instructions). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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