# deploy-landed

The skill checks that the revision being served is the commit you meant, that its env reached the running process, and that the product actually works. Useful after any deploy or restart.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 107
- Author: avelikiy
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/avelikiy/great_cto/tree/HEAD/skills/deploy-landed/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/deploy-landed

## What it does

An exit code only tells you the deploy command finished. This skill makes the agent show that the new code is serving, that its configuration arrived, and that the product does its job. Four checks, each with evidence: revision (live image tag or digest, deployment id, process start time, or the content of the served file), configuration, function, and startup errors in the logs.

Before a pull or build, it looks for hand patches on the host. `git -C /srv/app status --porcelain` lists anything not in git, and `git -C /srv/app log -1 --format=%H` shows what the host believes it runs. Uncommitted work gets committed or reported as drift. In a container, env vars are read from PID 1 with `cat /proc/1/environ | tr '\0' '\n'` — `docker exec env` does not inherit the entrypoint's environment, which is how you get a false “config is missing” reading.

The run ends with a `DEPLOY-LANDED` block covering revision, config, function and startup. A check that could not run is marked `NOT CHECKED` with the reason. Any `FAIL` means the deploy is not done, whatever the command printed. The skill uses `Read`, `Bash` and `Grep`.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add avelikiy/great_cto --skill deploy-landed -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/deploy-landed/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/deploy-landed/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add avelikiy/great_cto --skill deploy-landed -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/deploy-landed/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add avelikiy/great_cto --skill deploy-landed -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/deploy-landed/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install avelikiy/great_cto deploy-landed
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/deploy-landed/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add avelikiy/great_cto --skill deploy-landed -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/avelikiy/great_cto --path skills/deploy-landed
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/deploy-landed/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add avelikiy/great_cto --skill deploy-landed -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/avelikiy/great_cto/tree/HEAD/skills/deploy-landed/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- confirm the served revision matches the commit you meant
- catch a server-side hot-fix before the next `git pull`
- verify the running process sees its env vars and secrets
- tell a working product apart from a green `/health`
- find out why nothing updated after a rollout

## Example prompts
- Deploy this and prove the right commit is serving in prod
- Check prod: are the env vars there and does an order go through?
- Why did it not update — run the deploy-landed checks and show me the report

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: deploy-landed
description: Prove a deploy landed — the served revision is the commit you meant, its env is present, and the product does its job — instead of trusting the deploy command's exit code. Also catches server drift before a pull or deploy. Use after any deploy, rollout, restart or server-side fix ("задеплой", "выкати", "проверь на проде", "почему не обновилось"). Loaded by devops, l3-support, infra-provisioner.
when_to_use: |
  Apply when:
  - you ran, or are about to report, a deploy, a rollout, a container restart, a hot-fix on a server
  - the operator asks whether something is live, or says it "did not update" / "still broken"
  - you are about to `git pull` or build on a server that someone may have patched by hand
  Do NOT apply to:
  - a change that does not reach a runtime (docs, tests only) — CI is the check there
effort: low
allowed-tools: Read, Bash, Grep
---

# deploy-landed — a deploy is done when the running thing is the thing you meant

A deploy command's exit code says the command finished. It does not say the new code
is serving, that its configuration arrived, or that the product works. Every trap
below produced a green exit and a broken or stale product on a real project:

| Trap | What happened |
|---|---|
| `git pull` failed, the build went on | The build succeeded from the **old** code and reported success |
| `nohup … &` | Exit 0 twice for a process that died at once |
| `docker exec` into a container | It does not inherit the entrypoint's env: two "config is missing" readings were false |
| `sed -i` / `docker cp` on a bind-mounted file | Replaced the inode; the container kept reading the old file |
| A fix applied only on the server | Lost on the next deploy — it was never in git |
| wrangler / Pages | `functions/` not deployed, `_headers` ignored, five deploys to notice |
| Prod behind SSO | Answers 401/302 to **every** path, including ones that do not exist — proves nothing about a route |
| `/health` green | For six hours while the engine made no trades |

## Before: is the server what git says it is?

Before pulling or building on a host someone can reach by hand:

```bash
git -C /srv/app status --porcelain        # anything here is a patch that is not in git
git -C /srv/app log -1 --format=%H        # what the host thinks it runs
```

Anything uncommitted on the host is either committed first or reported as drift — never
overwritten silently, and never left as the only copy of a fix.

## After: four checks, each with its evidence
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