production-deployment-phase

What problem does it solve?

This Skill eliminates the risks associated with manual, error-prone production deployments, such as downtime, incidents, and inconsistent releases.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Automated Promotion: Guides the automated promotion of validated staging deployments to production.
• Versioning & Release Tagging: Ensures proper semantic version bumping and creation of Git release tags for clear release history.
• Health Checks & Monitoring: Verifies system health post-deployment and ensures monitoring is configured to catch issues early.
• Use Case: After a feature has been thoroughly validated on staging, use this Skill to automate its promotion to production. This includes bumping the version, deploying the code, running health checks, creating a Git release tag, and configuring post-deploy monitoring to ensure a smooth, confident release.

Quick Start

1. Verify staging validation is complete

2. Bump the version using semantic versioning (e.g., npm version patch)

3. Deploy the validated build to your production environment

4. Run health checks to ensure all services are operational

5. Create a git release tag (e.g., git tag -a v1.0.0 -m "Release v1.0.0")

6. Generate a production ship report

7. Monitor the deployment for any post-release issues