Guarding Deployments

When to use this skill

• Before pushing to production or staging branches.
• When the user asks “is it safe to deploy?”.
• To verify environment variables and secrets are present.

Workflow

1. Preparation
   • Identify target environment (e.g., production, staging).
   • List required environment variables.
2. Verification
   • Run linting and type checks.
   • Execute test suite with npm test.
   • Verify environment variables using scripts/check-env.sh.
3. Execution
   • If all checks pass, proceed with deployment command.
   • If any check fails, block deployment and report errors.

Instructions

Linting & Tests

Ensure the project is in a clean state:

# Run linting
npm run lint

# Run unit tests
npm test

Environment Variable Check

Use the provided script to ensure required keys are set:

./scripts/check-env.sh .env.production DB_URL API_KEY

Resources

• check-env.sh
• Example .env