Land and Deploy Checklist skill for Claude and Codex

Land and Deploy Checklist as an AI skill. It asks for Pull request, Merge method, Deploy pipeline and 3 more, then does the rest. Free to install in Claude or…

Install it once and Claude or Codex runs it for you. When your request matches, your AI loads the skill, asks for anything it is missing, and works through the template itself. Prefer to fill it in by hand? See the full prompt template.

Download the skill (.zip) · View SKILL.md

When it is used

Use when an approved pull request is ready to merge and the team wants the deploy watched and verified in production with a rollback ready. Do not use for preparing the pull request or running a long post-deploy monitoring window. Related topics: devops, coding.

What it will ask you for

• Pull request (free text, e.g. "Link or number")
• Merge method (choose one: Squash, Merge commit, Rebase)
• Deploy pipeline (free text, e.g. "GitHub Actions to Cloud Run")
• Health signals (longer free text)
• Rollback method (longer free text)
• Deploy window (choose one: Anytime, Business hours only, Off-peak only)

How it works

1. Confirm approvals, green checks, and an allowed deploy window before merging.
2. Merge with the chosen method and follow CI and the deploy until each reports completion.
3. Verify the served version matches the merge and that key endpoints respond healthy.
4. Compare error rate and latency with the pre-deploy baseline over at least ten minutes.
5. Roll back immediately when a trigger fires, otherwise report a final status of Healthy or Needs attention.

What you get

A timeline of merge, CI, and deploy events, the health checks with results, and a final status of Healthy, Rolled back, or Needs attention.

What it watches out for

• Calling the deploy done when the pipeline turns green, without hitting production.
• Investigating before rolling back, which lengthens the outage.
• Using a baseline taken after the deploy, which hides a regression.

How to install

Claude.ai and the Claude desktop app

1. Download the skill .zip.
2. Open Settings, then Capabilities, and find Skills.
3. Choose Upload skill and select the .zip.
4. Ask Claude for help with the task. It loads the skill when your request matches.

Claude Code

1. Download the skill .zip.
2. Unzip it into ~/.claude/skills/ (or .claude/skills/ inside a project).
3. Start a new session. Claude Code loads the skill when your request matches.

Codex

1. Download the skill .zip.
2. Unzip it into ~/.agents/skills/ (or .agents/skills/ inside a project).
3. Codex picks it up on its own. Type $ and the skill name to use it, or just ask for the task.

Cursor

1. Download the Cursor rule (.mdc).
2. Save it in .cursor/rules/ inside your project.
3. Cursor's agent applies the rule when your request matches its description.

AGENTS.md (Codex, Cursor, and other coding agents)

1. Copy the AGENTS.md section.
2. Paste it into AGENTS.md at the root of your repository, creating the file if needed.
3. Coding agents that read AGENTS.md follow it when your request fits.