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deployment-planner

A planning framework to ensure stable and secure software deployments.

Install

mkdir -p .claude/skills/deployment-planner && curl -L -o skill.zip "https://agentskills.codes/api/skills/download/14765" && unzip -o skill.zip -d .claude/skills/deployment-planner && rm skill.zip

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Activation

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Plan deployment environments, infrastructure, secrets, migrations, workers, schedulers, storage, domains, SSL, and release flow.
128 charsno explicit “when” trigger
Intermediate

Key capabilities

  • Identify deployment target and environments
  • Define secrets and environment variables
  • Plan build artifacts and migration steps
  • Consider queues, workers, and schedulers
  • Plan storage, cache, domain, and SSL
  • Include preflight and smoke checks

How it works

This skill outlines a procedure to plan deployment environments, infrastructure, and release flows by identifying targets, defining secrets, and considering various components like storage and SSL.

Inputs & outputs

You give it
user request for deployment planning
You get back
actionable deployment plan and explicit rollback requirements

When to use deployment-planner

  • Plan production release steps
  • Define environment-specific secrets
  • Draft rollback and recovery procedures
  • Verify infrastructure preflight checks

About this skill

deployment-planner

Token Budget

Medium. Chunk by environment if needed.

When to Use

  • Before first deploy.
  • Before production release.
  • When deploy target/environment changes.

Entry Conditions

  • The user request matches this skill.
  • Required prior outputs are available or explicitly missing.

Procedure

  • Identify deploy target and environments.
  • Define secrets/env vars and protection rules.
  • Plan build artifacts, migrations, queues/workers, scheduler, storage, cache, domain/SSL.
  • Include preflight and smoke checks.
  • Hand off rollback requirements to rollback-planner.

Exit Conditions

  • Deploy plan is actionable and rollback requirements are explicit.

Loop Conditions

  • If environment conflicts with architecture, route to architecture-review.
  • If rollback is incomplete, route to rollback-planner.

Escalation Conditions

  • Escalate to human when requirements conflict, data loss is possible, production risk appears, or safe verification is not possible.

Required Output

  1. Deployment target.
  2. Environment map.
  3. Secrets/env requirements.
  4. Build/release steps.
  5. Migration/worker/storage considerations.
  6. Smoke checks.
  7. Rollback requirements.

Universal Contract

For every run, report:

  • What was inspected.
  • What changed, if anything.
  • What assumptions were made.
  • What verification was run.
  • What loop, blocker, or escalation remains.
  • Whether .agent/ shared state or context/ should be updated.

Do not edit files unless the user explicitly requested implementation or this skill's task requires file creation. Do not store secrets in shared state or context.

Limitations

  • The skill requires routing to 'rollback-planner' for incomplete rollback plans
  • The skill requires routing to 'architecture-review' if environment conflicts with architecture

How it compares

This skill provides a structured, step-by-step procedure for deployment planning, ensuring all critical aspects are covered, unlike an ad-hoc approach.

Compared to similar skills

deployment-planner side by side with the closest alternatives in the catalog.

SkillInstallsUpdatedSafetyDifficulty
deployment-planner (this skill)02moNo flagsIntermediate
deployment-engineer44moNo flagsAdvanced
DevOps / CI-CD Engineer02moNo flagsAdvanced
bazel-build-optimization142moNo flagsAdvanced

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