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

• Preparation

• Identify target environment (e.g., production , staging ).

• List required environment variables.

• Verification

• Run linting and type checks.

• Execute test suite with npm test .

• Verify environment variables using scripts/check-env.sh .

• 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