deployment-procedures

A guide to planning and running software releases in production, where real users depend on the system. It covers choosing where to host the software, checking it before release, watching the rollout, and deciding whether to undo or repair a change.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan release checklists, choose between hosting options, verify a change before shipping, monitor a rollout, and decide how to respond when something goes wrong.
Why use it?
It helps replace guesswork with clear reasoning when release steps depend on the kind of software and hosting platform involved.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/phuonghx/aim-cli/deployment-procedures
Any agent
npx skills add phuonghx/aim-cli --skill deployment-procedures
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/phuonghx/aim-cli

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 85 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,418 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00085 $0.01418
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.00709
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00284
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00142

Measured yesterday against content hash 7f8ac77ce6ea, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

deployment-procedures 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 yesterday.

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.

aim/templates/aim-agents/skills/deployment-procedures/SKILL.md · 176 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 176 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Deployment Procedures

This skill is about how to reason through a release, not a script to run. Two deployments are never quite the same, so the goal is to internalize the principles and translate them to whatever platform is in front of you. Whenever a step appears, ask why it exists before you perform it.

Choosing Where To Run It

What you're shipping decides the platform, and the platform decides the mechanics.

What kind of thing is this?
├─ Static site / JAMstack ........ Vercel · Netlify · Cloudflare Pages
├─ Ordinary web app
│   ├─ want it managed .......... Railway · Render · Fly.io
│   └─ want full control ........ a VPS with PM2 or Docker
├─ Many small services ........... a container orchestrator
└─ Event-driven / functions ...... edge runtimes · Lambda

Each one releases differently:

Platform How a release happens
Vercel / Netlify Push to git, it builds and ships
Railway / Render Git push or a CLI command
VPS + PM2 SSH in and run the steps yourself
Docker Push an image, then orchestrate it
Kubernetes kubectl apply the manifests

Before You Ship

Four things to confirm

Group your pre-flight checks into four buckets, and don't proceed until all four are green:

Bucket The question it answers
Code health Do tests pass, is it linted, did someone review it?
Build Does the production build succeed cleanly?
Environment Are env vars present and secrets current?
Safety net Is there a backup and a written rollback path?

The pre-flight list

  • Test suite green
  • Reviewed and approved
  • Production build clean
  • Environment variables confirmed
  • Migrations prepared, if any
  • Rollback path written down
  • Team given a heads-up
  • Monitoring open and ready

The Shape Of A Release

Five phases

PREPARE  → re-check code, build, and config
SNAPSHOT → capture the current state so you can return to it
SHIP     → push the change with dashboards open
INSPECT  → health check, scan logs, walk a key flow
SETTLE   → looks good? lock it in. trouble? roll back.

Read the full file on GitHub · 176 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. yesterday First seen · 176 lines · 85 tokens per session scan A 7f8ac77ce6ea

Subscribe to this mod's changes

deployment-procedures is a skill published in the GitHub repository phuonghx/aim-cli (1 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 85 tokens to every session and 1,418 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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