# dx-devops-promote

Runs DevOps Center promotion workflows for work items, from validation and preparation through promotion to a target pipeline stage.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 2300 installs · ★ 1112
- Author: forcedotcom
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/forcedotcom/sf-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/dx-devops-promote/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/dx-devops-promote

## What it does

This skill drives DevOps Center promotions for work items. It validates preconditions, prepares work items, combines related items when needed, and promotes changes to a target stage. It can handle selected work items or approved items from a source stage.

It uses `sf devops` commands with `--json`, which suits headless CI workflows. The skill checks org authentication before running operations and works with record IDs rather than work item names. Every action needs `--target-stage-id`; `--target-org <alias>` is also required unless the `target-org` config variable is set.

When work items share metadata, the skill reads the validation result with `jq` to decide whether to combine them. It requires `sf` `>=2.0.0`, `jq` `>=1.6`, API `58.0`, and DevOps Center access. Check permissions first, because promotion cannot start without `UserHasDevOpsCore`.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add forcedotcom/sf-skills --skill dx-devops-promote -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add forcedotcom/sf-skills --skill dx-devops-promote -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add forcedotcom/sf-skills --skill dx-devops-promote -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install forcedotcom/sf-skills dx-devops-promote
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/dx-devops-promote/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add forcedotcom/sf-skills --skill dx-devops-promote -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/forcedotcom/sf-skills --path skills/dx-devops-promote
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add forcedotcom/sf-skills --skill dx-devops-promote -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/forcedotcom/sf-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/dx-devops-promote/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- validate a work item before promotion
- prepare work items for a target stage
- combine work items that share metadata
- move approved changes to the next pipeline stage
- complete a promotion deployment

## Example prompts
- Promote work item `<id>` to target stage `<target-stage-id>` for org `<alias>`.
- Validate and prepare these work items for target stage `<target-stage-id>`.
- Combine the related work items, then promote the parent item to the target stage.

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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```text
---
name: dx-devops-promote
description: "Use this skill to drive the full DevOps Center promotion workflow for work items and pipeline stages — validate preconditions, prepare work items, optionally combine work items that share metadata, promote one or more work items or an entire stage to a target pipeline stage, and complete the promotion to finalize the deployment. TRIGGER when the user wants to promote a work item, advance changes to the next environment or stage, combine work items for a single promotion, or move metadata through the release pipeline. The mandatory validate step runs automatically at the start. DO NOT TRIGGER for work item creation or status updates (use dx-devops-work-item-manage), for conflict detection, or for polling an existing promotion's status."
metadata:
  version: "1.0"
  domains: ["Developer Experience"]
  minApiVersion: "58.0"
  relatedSkills:
    - "dx-devops-work-item-manage"
  cliTools:
    - tool: ["jq"]
      semver: ">=1.6"
    - tool: ["sf"]
      semver: ">=2.0.0"
  accessCheck: "(OrgPreferences.ALMDevopsCorePref) && (UserPermissions.UserHasDevOpsCore)"
---

# DevOps Center Promotion

Drives the full promotion workflow in DevOps Center — validate, prepare, optionally combine, promote, and complete — moving work items through the release pipeline. Provides headless, `--json`-driven, idempotent operations for autonomous release workflows in CI. Every promotion begins with a mandatory validate step.

## Scope

- **In scope**: Validate promotion preconditions, prepare a work item, combine work items that share metadata into one promotion, promote one or more work items or an entire source stage to a target stage, and complete the promotion
- **Out of scope**: Work item creation/status updates (use `dx-devops-work-item-manage`), conflict detection, polling an existing promotion's status, pipeline or project setup (separate skills)

---

## Required Inputs

Gather or infer before proceeding:

- **Promotion target**: one or more specific work items, or all approved work items in a source stage
- **Target stage ID** (required for every promotion command — validate, prepare, combine, promote, and complete): `--target-stage-id` — the pipeline stage to promote to
- **Work item ID(s)** or **source stage ID** — depending on the promotion target. `sf devops promote` takes `--work-item-id` (repeatable) XOR `--stage-id`
- **For combined promotion**: a parent work item ID and one or more child work item IDs that share metadata
- **Target org**: `--target-org <alias>` (required unless the `target-org` config variable is set)

Defaults unless specified:
- Output format: `--json` for headless consumption
- Test level: omit `--test-level` for development-stage deploys (defaults to `NoTestRun`); use `RunLocalTests` for production-stage deploys with Apex
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