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Production Launch Checklist

Guides safe production launches with checklists, staged rollouts, monitoring and rollback plans.

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What it does

When you ask your AI agent to get something ready for release, this skill makes it work through a structured launch process. It supplies a pre-launch checklist covering code quality, security, performance, accessibility, infrastructure and documentation, plus guidance on feature flags, a step-by-step staged rollout (staging, then internal users, then 5%, 25%, 50% and 100% of users) with metric thresholds that say when to advance, hold or roll back, and recommended monitoring and error reporting.

Great for

  • Developers preparing a feature or change for its first production release
  • Small teams without a formal release process who want a checklist to work from
  • Engineers planning a gradual rollout with feature flags and rollback criteria

Skip it if

  • Simple static sites or personal projects where a full staged rollout is overkill
  • Anyone expecting the agent to actually deploy, configure DNS or check your real metrics; the skill is guidance and checklists, not automation of your infrastructure
  • Teams whose stack differs widely from the web examples (TypeScript/React, Node-style code), since the advice assumes a web application

Try asking

  • “Use the shipping-and-launch skill to give me a pre-launch checklist for our new checkout feature.”
  • “Plan a staged rollout with feature flags for the task-sharing feature, including rollback thresholds.”
  • “What needs to be in place before we deploy this database migration to production?”
  • “Help me set up monitoring and error reporting before our beta launch.”
Step-by-step guide: how to use Production Launch ChecklistInstall, first run, examples, tips and FAQs

Install in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Download the skill

    The ZIP contains the 1 original files, the MIT licence and an attribution note.

    shipping-and-launch.zip
  2. 2

    Add it to your agent

    Claude Code (all projects)

    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip shipping-and-launch.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

    Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)

    mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip shipping-and-launch.zip -d .claude/skills/

    Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.

  3. 3

    Ask for the task

    No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.

Get better results

  • Give the agent your real project context (stack, hosting, current metrics) so it can tailor the checklist rather than list generic items.
  • Treat the thresholds table as a starting point and set baselines from your own production data before relying on them.
  • Ask the agent to mark which checklist items your project actually needs, since many (CDN, ADRs, CSP) will not apply to every launch.

What's inside

  • SKILL.md

Redistributed unmodified from addyosmani/agent-skills under the MIT licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.