release-to-prod

release-to-prod is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tahirraufkeeyu/software-development-agent-stack--sdas. It costs 46 tokens per session (3,127 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A release workflow for moving merged changes from staging to production. It checks CI, deploys in canary stages, watches service-level objectives, rolls back when a gate fails, and creates a changelog.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after changes merge to the release branch, including scheduled releases and hotfixes that need a controlled production rollout.
Why use it?
It coordinates checks, deployment, monitoring, rollback, and release documentation in one auditable process.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is `./scripts/check-slo.sh` is a project-side script (not shipped by this skill); see [`deploy`](../deploy/SKILL.md) section 7 for the query contract it must satis.

Good fit Use it after changes merge to the release branch, including scheduled releases and hotfixes that need a controlled production rollout.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tahirraufkeeyu/software-development-agent-stack--sdas
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tahirraufkeeyu/software-development-agent-stack--sdas/release-to-prod

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,127 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 $0.00046 $0.03127
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01563
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00625
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00313

Measured 11d ago against content hash adc83de39603, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

release-to-prod 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.

departments/devops/skills/release-to-prod/SKILL.md · 236 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 236 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

When to use

  • A PR (or a set of PRs) has merged to main and the release train is ready to leave staging.
  • A hotfix must go to prod with the same canary + auto-rollback guarantees as a scheduled release.
  • A cut-over requires a single artifact (the release report) for audit, compliance, or change-advisory review.
  • The caller wants one orchestration step — not four manual handoffs between CI, deploy, on-call, and docs.

Do not use for dev/staging-only deploys (call deploy directly), for emergency kubectl rollout undo in the middle of an active incident (call incident-response directly), or when the commit has not yet merged to the release branch.

Chained skills

Executed strictly in this order:

  1. pipeline-builder — read-only check that the CI pipeline for the target SHA finished green. No mutation; consumes GitHub Actions / GitLab CI / Azure DevOps status and emits devops/status/ci-green.json.
  2. deploy — performs the canary-aware rollout to the target environment (5% -> 25% -> 100%) with SLO gates between each step. Emits devops/status/deploy-result.json.
  3. incident-response — invoked ONLY if the SLO gate inside deploy trips. Runs auto-rollback, opens an incident, and drafts the postmortem skeleton with the offending PR/commit pre-populated.
  4. changelog — enumerates the PRs merged since the previous release tag, groups them by type (feat/fix/chore/docs), and renders user-facing release notes.

Inputs

  • environment — target env (prod-us-east-1, prod-eu-west-1, etc.).
  • version — semver tag to cut (e.g. v2.14.0).
  • sha — full git SHA of the commit to release. Must be on the release branch.
  • service — the Kubernetes Deployment being released (e.g. checkout-api).
  • canary_steps — default [5, 25, 100]; override per-service risk tolerance.
  • slo — object: { error_rate_max: 0.01, p95_latency_ms: 400, window_minutes: 5 }.
  • previous_release_tag — the last green release tag, used for changelog range.
  • approvers — GitHub Environment approvers required for prod.
  • dashboards — map of { name: url } for the release report (Grafana, Datadog, etc.).

Read the full file on GitHub · 236 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. 11d ago First seen · 236 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A adc83de39603

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release-to-prod is a skill published in the GitHub repository tahirraufkeeyu/software-development-agent-stack--sdas (18 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 3,127 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 2026-08-30.

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