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