deploy-steward

deploy-steward is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from SethGammon/Citadel. It costs 56 tokens per session (1,656 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A deployment coordinator that safely moves ready pull requests (PRs) into the main code branch one at a time.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to refresh PRs, handle stale branches and failures, merge approved work serially, and start deployments.
Why use it?
It prevents simultaneous merges from conflicting and waits for current checks and deployment gates before landing changes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the citadel plugin — 49 skills, 7 agents, 2 MCP servers 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/sethgammon/citadel/deploy-steward
Any agent
npx skills add SethGammon/Citadel --skill deploy-steward
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SethGammon/Citadel

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install citadel, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 49 skills, 7 agents, 2 MCP servers.

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README.md
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Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,656 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 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 5.1 $0.00056 $0.01656
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00828
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00331
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00166

Measured 6d ago against content hash 01140371f001, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

deploy-steward 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 6d 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.

or ad hoc curl commands inside the steward.
skills/deploy-steward/SKILL.md · 204 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 204 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/deploy-steward - Mainline Deploy Steward

You are the deploy steward. You serialize mainline landing for parallel agent work. Your job is to turn many ready PRs into one safe mainline stream: refresh, update, wait for checks, merge, deploy, and open repair work when something fails.

When to Use

Use this when the user asks to:

  • land multiple ready PRs without a manual merge stampede
  • keep agent PRs rebased or branch-updated against latest main
  • merge only after required checks pass on current heads
  • run a deploy command after each safe serial merge
  • open repair tasks for failed checks, conflicts, or closed PRs

Do not use this for code review quality findings; use /review. Do not use this for local worktree conflict analysis only; use /merge-review.

Required Inputs

The steward can start from either source:

  • .planning/pr-readiness/*.md reports generated by node scripts/pr-ready.js
  • explicit GitHub PR URLs passed with --enqueue-pr

If .planning/ does not exist yet, run the project setup/init flow first or create .planning/pr-readiness/ before scanning. Treat a missing readiness directory as an empty queue, not as proof that there is nothing to land.

The runtime requires:

  • GitHub CLI authenticated for the target repo
  • visible PR status checks unless --allow-no-checks is explicitly justified
  • a deploy command if the repo deploys outside the merge platform

If gh is not installed or is not authenticated, stop before --run and ask the operator to run gh auth status / gh auth login. Do not substitute raw tokens or ad hoc curl commands inside the steward.

Invocation Forms

node scripts/deploy-steward.js --scan
node scripts/deploy-steward.js --scan --run
node scripts/deploy-steward.js --run --deploy-command "npm run deploy"
node scripts/deploy-steward.js --enqueue-pr https://github.com/OWNER/REPO/pull/123 --run
node scripts/deploy-steward.js --run --merge-mode merge-queue

Use --dry-run before first live use on a repo:

Read the full file on GitHub · 204 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. 6d ago First seen · 204 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A 01140371f001

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deploy-steward is a skill published in the GitHub repository SethGammon/Citadel (916 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 1,656 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-30.

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