prd-v08-release-planning_skill

Overview

This skill defines release criteria, deployment environments, and rollback strategies for PRD v0.8 Deployment & Ops. It turns completed EPICs into production-ready DEP- entries that act as a contract between development and operations. Outputs are structured DEP- items covering environment, criteria, rollback, and validation steps.

How this skill works

On request, the skill inventories completed EPICs and related artifacts, then produces DEP- entries using a consistent template. It sets environment-specific configs (staging, preview, production), formalizes pre-deploy blockers and verification steps, and encodes rollback triggers with thresholds and procedures. The result is traceable DEP- documentation ready for runbook and monitoring integration.

When to use it

• When planning a release or answering “how do we deploy?”
• Before promoting code from staging to production
• When defining go/no-go release criteria and owners
• When creating rollback procedures and alert thresholds
• When producing post-deploy validation and runbook inputs

Best practices

• Treat each release as a contract: define environments, criteria, and owners for every DEP- entry
• Use measurable thresholds for blockers and rollback triggers (error rates, latency, data integrity)
• Link DEP- entries to EPIC-, TEST-, MON- and API- IDs for traceability
• Prefer automated verification (CI/CD, smoke tests) and document any manual steps
• Choose a deployment pattern (canary, blue-green, rolling, feature flags) that matches risk and infra constraints

Example use cases

• Create DEP- Environment entries for production, staging, and preview with infra, secrets, and access lists
• Generate DEP- Criteria checklists: all TEST- pass in staging, performance baselines met, security review complete
• Define DEP- Rollback entries such as automatic rollback when 5xx error rate >2% for 5 minutes
• Produce DEP- Validation entries: post-deploy smoke tests, key-journey verification, metric baseline confirmation
• Export DEP- items to feed runbooks, monitoring alerts, and go/no-go gates for GTM