Deployment SOP Skill

TEMPLATE: This skill uses {{PLACEHOLDER}} tokens. Replace with your project values before use.

Purpose

Route to existing deployment SOPs and provide checklists for safe, validated deployments. This skill does NOT duplicate SOP content -- it links to authoritative sources.

When This Skill Applies

• Deploying to staging or production
• Running pre-deploy validation
• Executing post-deploy smoke tests
• Coordinating release activities
• Planning rollback procedures

Authoritative References (MUST READ)

Document	Location	Purpose
Semantic Release SOP	docs/ci-cd/Semantic-Release-Deployment-SOP.md	Release automation workflow
Staging/UAT Release SOP	docs/sop/STAGING-UAT-RELEASE-SOP.md	UAT validation process
Dev Machine Access	docs/deployment/LINUX-DEV-MACHINE-ACCESS-SOP.md	Dev server access
Production Server Access	docs/deployment/PRODUCTION-SERVER-ACCESS-SOP.md	Production deployment

Pre-Deployment Checklist

Before ANY deployment:

• All CI checks pass (GitHub Actions green)
• PR merged to target branch
• No unresolved blockers in ticket system
• Database migrations tested locally
• Environment variables verified

# Validate before deploy
{{CI_VALIDATE_COMMAND}}
{{BUILD_COMMAND}}

Post-Deployment Smoke Test

After deployment completes:

• Health endpoint responds: curl https://{{DOMAIN}}/api/health
• Database connection verified (check health response)
• Authentication flow works (sign-in/sign-up)
• Critical user flows functional
• No new errors in logs

# Smoke test commands
curl -s https://{{DOMAIN}}/api/health | jq .
# Expected: {"status":"healthy","timestamp":"..."}

Deployment Evidence Template

For ticket attachment:

## Deployment Evidence - {{TICKET_PREFIX}}-XXX

### Environment
- **Target**: Staging / Production
- **Branch**: `{branch_name}`
- **Commit**: `{commit_sha}`

### Pre-Deployment
- [x] CI checks passed
- [x] PR merged
- [x] Migrations verified

### Post-Deployment
- [x] Health check: PASSED
- [x] Auth flow: PASSED
- [x] Smoke tests: PASSED

### Verification
curl -s https://{{DOMAIN}}/api/health
{"status":"healthy","timestamp":"..."}

Rollback Procedure

If deployment fails:

1. Identify failure - Check deployment logs, error tracking
2. Revert commit - git revert {commit_sha}
3. Push revert - Triggers automatic rollback deployment
4. Verify rollback - Run smoke tests again
5. Document incident - Update ticket with evidence

Stop-the-Line Conditions

FORBIDDEN

• Deploying with failing CI checks
• Skipping smoke tests on production
• Deploying database migrations without local testing
• Force-deploying over active incidents

REQUIRED

• Health check MUST pass within 5 minutes
• Production deployments MUST have staging validation first
• Rollback plan MUST be documented before production deploy

Branch to Environment Mapping

Branch	Environment	Auto-Deploy
dev	Staging	{{STAGING_DEPLOY_MODE}}
{{MAIN_BRANCH}}	Production	{{PROD_DEPLOY_MODE}}