staging-deploy

staging-deploy is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from srnichols/plan-forge. It costs 30 tokens per session (858 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A procedure for deploying a completed .NET application to a staging environment, a test copy that resembles production. It builds and tests the app, creates and pushes a container image, runs database migrations, deploys it, and checks its health.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to deploy with Docker, Kubernetes, or Docker Compose, apply pending PostgreSQL migrations, and run health, version, and smoke checks.
Why use it?
It makes staging deployments repeatable and stops the process when pre-deployment checks fail.

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/srnichols/plan-forge/staging-deploy
Any agent
npx skills add srnichols/plan-forge --skill staging-deploy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/srnichols/plan-forge

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 858 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 $0.00030 $0.00858
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00429
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00172
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00086

Measured yesterday against content hash 5d7a1e1699b6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

staging-deploy 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 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -f https://staging-api.contoso.com/health
presets/dotnet/.github/skills/staging-deploy/SKILL.md · 97 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 97 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Staging Deploy Skill

Trigger

"Deploy to staging" / "Push to staging environment"

Steps

0. Pre-flight Forge Validation

Use the forge_validate MCP tool to verify setup integrity before deploying.

1. Pre-Flight Checks

dotnet build --configuration Release
dotnet test --configuration Release --no-build

Conditional: Pre-Flight Failure

If Step 1 (Pre-Flight Checks) fails → STOP. Do not proceed to build.

2. Build Container

docker build -t contoso-api:staging -f Dockerfile .
docker tag contoso-api:staging registry.contoso.com/api:staging
docker push registry.contoso.com/api:staging

3. Run Migrations

# Apply pending database migrations
psql -h staging-db -d contoso_staging -f Database/migrations/latest.sql

4. Deploy

# Kubernetes
kubectl apply -f k8s/staging/ --context staging

# Or Docker Compose
docker compose -f docker-compose.staging.yml up -d

5. Verify

# Health check
curl -f https://staging-api.contoso.com/health

# Version check
curl https://staging-api.contoso.com/api/version

# Smoke test
dotnet test --filter "Category=Smoke" -- TestEnvironment=Staging

Safety Rules

  • ALWAYS run tests before deploying
  • ALWAYS verify health endpoint after deploy
  • NEVER deploy to production using this skill
  • Rollback: kubectl rollout undo deployment/api --context staging

Temper Guards

Shortcut Why It Breaks
"It works locally, skip staging" Local environments mask configuration, networking, and scaling issues that only surface in staging.
"Health check isn't needed yet" Without health checks, orchestrators can't detect failures. A "successful" deploy may serve errors silently.
"I'll add monitoring after launch" Post-launch is too late. Staging is where you verify observability works before production traffic arrives.
"One big deploy is simpler" Monolithic deploys are harder to roll back. Deploy incrementally so failures are isolated to a single change.

Read the full file on GitHub · 97 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 · 97 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 5d7a1e1699b6

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staging-deploy is a skill published in the GitHub repository srnichols/plan-forge (5 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 858 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.