deploy

deploy is a skill for Claude Code from whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills. It costs 72 tokens per session (3,103 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A deployment and hosting guide for putting an application on the internet. It covers choosing a host, connecting a custom domain, configuring environment variables, setting up a production database, and making backups.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to deploy an app, configure its domain and production settings, choose suitable hosting, and establish database backups.
Why use it?
It fills the gap between an app working locally and being available reliably to users. It also helps avoid missing essential production setup.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the solo-founder-skills plugin — 54 skills, 1 command shipped together

Good fit Use it to deploy an app, configure its domain and production settings, choose suitable hosting, and establish database backups.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills/deploy
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.

Any agent
npx skills add whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills --skill deploy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install solo-founder-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 54 skills, 1 command.

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Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,103 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 35
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00072 $0.03103
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.01551
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00621
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00310

Measured 12d ago against content hash 866b176ad6f9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

deploy 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 12d 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/deploy/SKILL.md · 314 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 314 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Deployment & Going Live

The gap between "it works on my screen" and "anyone can use it" feels enormous. It's not. This skill walks you through choosing a host, deploying, connecting a domain, and setting up backups — step by step.

This skill is for deployment and hosting. For pre-launch quality checks, use go-live. For monitoring after deploy, use monitor. For database setup, use database. For security hardening, use secure.

Core Principles

  • The best hosting platform is the one that matches how you built. Don't migrate unless you have to.
  • Managed beats self-managed every time for solo founders. Pay more, worry less.
  • Your first deployment should take under 30 minutes. If it's taking hours, you're overcomplicating it.
  • Custom domains are not optional for a real business. yourapp.vercel.app is not professional.
  • Backups are not optional. If you don't have them, you don't have a business.

Don't Do Yet

  • Don't set up Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, or "infrastructure as code." Managed platforms handle this. You're shipping a product, not building a data center.
  • Don't set up a staging environment until you have paying users. Deploy straight to production. You can add staging later.
  • Don't optimize for scale before you have traffic. A $5/month Railway plan handles thousands of users. Worry about scaling when it becomes a real problem.
  • Don't self-host your database. Use a managed service (Supabase, Railway Postgres, PlanetScale). Self-hosting means you're on call for backups, upgrades, and outages.

Choose Your Hosting

If You Built With These Tools

Built With Deploy To Why
Lovable Lovable's built-in hosting Already deployed. Just connect your domain.
Replit Replit Deployments One-click deploy from your Repl. Built in.
Bolt / Stackblitz Netlify or Vercel Export code, connect git repo, auto-deploys.
Claude Code (Next.js, React) Vercel Built for Next.js. Git push = deploy.
Claude Code (any framework) Railway Supports everything. Simple dashboard.
Claude Code (static site) Netlify or Cloudflare Pages Free tier is generous. Fast global CDN.
Claude Code (Python/Django/Flask) Railway or Render Good Python support with managed databases.

Read the full file on GitHub · 314 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. 12d ago First seen · 314 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A 866b176ad6f9

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deploy is a skill published in the GitHub repository whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills (243 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 3,103 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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