environment-to-production-release-protocol

environment-to-production-release-protocol is a skill for Claude Code from VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agentic. It costs 128 tokens per session (1,600 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A release workflow for moving Power Platform and Dynamics 365 solutions from development through testing into production using managed solution packages and deployment pipelines.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps run pre-flight checks, package solutions, promote them through environments, review deployment gates, verify rollback plans, and recover from failed deployments.
Why use it?
It prevents unvalidated changes from reaching production and ensures a recovery path is checked first. Production approval remains with a human environment owner or release manager.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the vanguard-frontier-agentic plugin — 193 skills shipped together

Good fit It helps run pre-flight checks, package solutions, promote them through environments, review deployment gates, verify rollback plans, and recover from failed deployments.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vincentchuwaichow/vanguard-frontier-agentic/environment-to-production-release-protocol
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agentic --skill environment-to-production-release-protocol
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agentic

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install vanguard-frontier-agentic, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 193 skills.

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Per session 128 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,600 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00128 $0.01600
Opus 5 $0.00064 $0.00800
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00320
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00160

Measured 8d ago against content hash 013a942f472d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

environment-to-production-release-protocol 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 8d 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.

skills/cross-functional/environment-to-production-release-protocol/SKILL.md · 96 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 96 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Environment-to-Production Release Protocol

Purpose

This skill defines how Power Platform and Dynamics 365 solutions are packaged, validated, and promoted from development through test to production using managed solutions and Power Platform pipelines. It enforces the principle that only managed solutions reach production environments, that every deployment stage is preceded by pre-flight validation, and that a tested rollback path exists before a production deployment is approved. No agent authorizes a production deployment; that is a human decision by the environment owner or release manager.

When to use

  • A solution in a development environment is ready to be promoted to test or production via a Power Platform pipeline.
  • A release manager needs a structured checklist and gate review before approving a production deployment.
  • A rollback plan must be confirmed and tested before a go-live window opens.
  • A Copilot Studio agent or Power Automate flow packaged in a solution needs to be promoted through ALM stages.
  • A deployment failed and a structured rollback or recovery must be initiated.

When NOT to use

  • The solution has not been exported as a managed solution — unmanaged solutions must not be deployed to test or production.
  • The pipeline has not been configured by an admin in the Power Platform admin center — ad hoc deployments bypass this protocol.
  • The matter is a hotfix to an already-live production environment requiring emergency change procedures — use the change-request-to-go-live-protocol with expedited gates instead.
  • The deployment targets an environment outside Power Platform (e.g., pure Azure infrastructure) — this protocol does not cover Azure DevOps pipelines for non-Power Platform workloads.

Participating agents

  • power-platform-alm-pipelines-agent — primary: validates solution packaging, pipeline stage configuration, dependency checks, and deployment readiness
  • copilot-studio-agent-governance-alm-agent — secondary: validates Copilot Studio agent configurations, topic schemas, and governance controls packaged in the solution

Read the full file on GitHub · 96 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 8d ago First seen · 96 lines · 128 tokens per session scan A 013a942f472d

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environment-to-production-release-protocol is a skill published in the GitHub repository VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agentic (22 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 128 tokens to every session and 1,600 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-09-04.

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