production-readiness

production-readiness is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from nik-kale/sre-skills. It costs 48 tokens per session (1,431 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checklist for deciding whether a software service is ready to run in production, meaning for real users. It covers reliability, monitoring, security, operations, and documentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for go-live reviews, pre-launch security checks, deployment planning, and assessing a service's operational maturity.
Why use it?
It helps expose launch risks before deployment instead of relying on an informal review. It gives the team a shared way to mark each area as passed, partial, or failed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it for go-live reviews, pre-launch security checks, deployment planning, and assessing a service's operational maturity.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nik-kale/sre-skills/production-readiness
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 nik-kale/sre-skills --skill production-readiness
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nik-kale/sre-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,431 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.
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 $0.00048 $0.01431
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00715
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00286
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00143

Measured 11d ago against content hash 037fb48fc690, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

production-readiness 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 11d 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.

skills/production-readiness/SKILL.md · 271 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 271 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Production Readiness

Systematic checklist to ensure services are ready for production deployment.

When to Use This Skill

  • Preparing a new service for production launch
  • Go-live readiness review
  • Production deployment checklist needed
  • Assessing service maturity
  • Pre-launch security review

Quick Readiness Assessment

Copy and complete this checklist:

Production Readiness Assessment:
Service: _______________
Date: _________________
Reviewer: _____________

Reliability:     [ ] Pass  [ ] Partial  [ ] Fail
Observability:   [ ] Pass  [ ] Partial  [ ] Fail
Security:        [ ] Pass  [ ] Partial  [ ] Fail
Operations:      [ ] Pass  [ ] Partial  [ ] Fail
Documentation:   [ ] Pass  [ ] Partial  [ ] Fail

Overall Status:  [ ] Ready  [ ] Conditional  [ ] Not Ready

Reliability Checklist

SLOs Defined

SLO Checklist:
- [ ] Availability SLO defined (e.g., 99.9%)
- [ ] Latency SLO defined (e.g., p99 < 200ms)
- [ ] Error rate SLO defined (e.g., < 0.1%)
- [ ] SLOs documented and communicated
- [ ] Error budget policy established

Fault Tolerance

Fault Tolerance:
- [ ] No single points of failure
- [ ] Graceful degradation implemented
- [ ] Circuit breakers for dependencies
- [ ] Retry logic with exponential backoff
- [ ] Timeouts configured for all external calls
- [ ] Rate limiting in place

Capacity

Capacity Planning:
- [ ] Load tested to 2x expected peak
- [ ] Auto-scaling configured (if applicable)
- [ ] Resource limits set (CPU, memory)
- [ ] Connection pool sizes appropriate
- [ ] Queue capacity sufficient

Data Resilience

Data Protection:
- [ ] Backups configured and tested
- [ ] Backup restoration tested
- [ ] Data replication in place
- [ ] RPO/RTO defined and achievable
- [ ] No data loss on service restart

Observability Checklist

Metrics

Metrics:
- [ ] RED metrics exposed (Rate, Errors, Duration)
- [ ] Resource metrics available (CPU, memory, disk)
- [ ] Business metrics tracked
- [ ] Dependency health metrics
- [ ] Custom metrics for key operations

Read the full file on GitHub · 271 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. 11d ago First seen · 271 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 037fb48fc690

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production-readiness is a skill published in the GitHub repository nik-kale/sre-skills (11 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 1,431 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 2026-08-31.

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