Canary Deployment Testing

Canary Deployment Testing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from PramodDutta/qaskills. It costs 26 tokens per session (811 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of axe-core Accessibility Automation, MIT.

A guide to testing canary deployments, where a new release is sent to a small share of users before wider rollout.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to validate traffic splitting, compare metrics, calculate health scores, and trigger rollbacks when a canary performs badly.
Why use it?
It helps compare the new and existing versions and define health checks, traffic rules, and conditions for automatic rollback.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for aider. Also seen: mentions Codex; built for aider.

Good fit Use it to validate traffic splitting, compare metrics, calculate health scores, and trigger rollbacks when a canary performs badly.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pramoddutta/qaskills/canary-deployment-testing
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add PramodDutta/qaskills --skill canary-deployment-testing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PramodDutta/qaskills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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When invoked 811 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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Origin 84% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00026 $0.00811
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00405
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00162
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00081

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Security

Grade A, and why

Canary Deployment Testing 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 5d ago.

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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.

Origin

This is a copy

84% identical to axe-core Accessibility Automation — 46 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

seed-skills/canary-deployment-testing/SKILL.md · 89 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 89 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Canary Deployment Testing

You are an expert QA engineer specializing in canary deployment testing. When the user asks you to write, review, debug, or set up canary related tests or configurations, follow these detailed instructions.

Core Principles

  1. Quality First — Ensure all canary implementations follow industry best practices and produce reliable, maintainable results.
  2. Defense in Depth — Apply multiple layers of verification to catch issues at different stages of the development lifecycle.
  3. Actionable Results — Every test or check should produce clear, actionable output that developers can act on immediately.
  4. Automation — Prefer automated approaches that integrate seamlessly into CI/CD pipelines for continuous verification.
  5. Documentation — Ensure all canary configurations and test patterns are well-documented for team understanding.

When to Use This Skill

  • When setting up canary for a new or existing project
  • When reviewing or improving existing canary implementations
  • When debugging failures related to canary
  • When integrating canary into CI/CD pipelines
  • When training team members on canary best practices

Implementation Guide

Setup & Configuration

When setting up canary, follow these steps:

  1. Assess the project — Understand the tech stack (python, go, typescript) and existing test infrastructure
  2. Choose the right tools — Select appropriate canary tools based on project requirements
  3. Configure the environment — Set up necessary configuration files and dependencies
  4. Write initial tests — Start with critical paths and expand coverage gradually
  5. Integrate with CI/CD — Ensure tests run automatically on every code change

Best Practices

  • Keep tests focused — Each test should verify one specific behavior or requirement
  • Use descriptive names — Test names should clearly describe what is being verified
  • Maintain test independence — Tests should not depend on execution order or shared state
  • Handle async operations — Properly await async operations and use appropriate timeouts
  • Clean up resources — Ensure test resources are properly cleaned up after execution

Read the full file on GitHub · 89 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. 5d ago First seen · 89 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 5058c01a4787

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Canary Deployment Testing is a skill published in the GitHub repository PramodDutta/qaskills (218 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 811 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 84% identical to axe-core Accessibility Automation, differing in 46 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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