# launch-checklist

Audits your repo and writes a step-by-step launch guide to docs/launch-checklist.md. Useful when the app works but production still feels far away.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 1700 installs · ★ 232
- Author: BuilderOS
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/BuildGreatProducts/builder-os/tree/HEAD/skills/launch-checklist/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-07-07
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/launch-checklist

## What it does

The skill reads the whole repository first: product type (web, mobile, desktop), framework, database, auth and payment providers. It also checks environment variables, test keys, deploy configs, and the customer-facing pieces the code may lack — analytics, error tracking, legal pages, a domain.

Then it writes `docs/launch-checklist.md` as phases: accounts and prerequisites, secrets and configuration, production services, deploy, domain, pre-launch verification, after launch. Every step carries a marker: 🧑 you do it, 🤖 your agent does it from a ready prompt, 🤝 the agent prepares and you click the final button. Steps include a time estimate and a line telling you how to confirm it worked.

Technical terms are explained inline — DNS, environment variables, webhooks. Secrets go straight into the hosting platform settings, never into chat. If the audit finds a failing build or hardcoded keys, Phase 0 is fixing them, again as agent steps with prompts.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add BuildGreatProducts/builder-os --skill launch-checklist -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add BuildGreatProducts/builder-os --skill launch-checklist -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add BuildGreatProducts/builder-os --skill launch-checklist -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install BuildGreatProducts/builder-os launch-checklist
```

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

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add BuildGreatProducts/builder-os --skill launch-checklist -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/BuildGreatProducts/builder-os --path skills/launch-checklist
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add BuildGreatProducts/builder-os --skill launch-checklist -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/BuildGreatProducts/builder-os/tree/HEAD/skills/launch-checklist/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- figure out what stands between working code and a live product
- switch payment providers from test keys to live ones
- list the accounts and services to set up before launch
- walk the core flow as a real customer before release
- show a non-technical founder which steps are theirs and which belong to the agent

## Example prompts
- create my launch checklist
- help me launch this
- what do I need to do to go live

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: launch-checklist
description: Use when the user's product is built (or nearly built) and they want to get it live and accessible to customers. Triggers on phrases like "create my launch checklist", "how do I deploy this", "help me launch", "get this live", "put this in production", "ship it to customers", "what do I need to do to go live", or any request for a step-by-step path from working code to a product customers can use. Audits the current codebase — stack, services, environment variables, payments, deploy config — then writes a plain-English, step-by-step launch guide to `docs/launch-checklist.md`. Every step is marked as something the user must do themselves, something their coding agent can do, or both together, and all technical terms are explained for non-technical founders.
license: MIT
metadata:
  author: BuilderOS
  version: "1.0"
---

# Launch Checklist

This skill turns "the app works on my machine" into "customers can use it." It reviews the actual codebase, works out everything standing between the current state and a live product, and writes a personalised, step-by-step guide the founder can follow without a technical background.

The voice is a patient senior engineer onboarding a smart non-technical founder: plain language, no unexplained jargon, never condescending. The founder is capable — they just haven't done this before.

## Step 1: Audit the codebase

Read the repository thoroughly before writing anything. Establish:

- **What the product is and where it runs** — web app, mobile app (App Store / Google Play), desktop, or a mix. Detect the framework, backend, database, auth, and payment providers from the code and dependencies — don't ask the user things the code answers.
- **Configuration state** — environment variables used in code vs. what's documented (`.env.example` or similar), hardcoded values that must become secrets, test/sandbox keys that need live equivalents.
- **Third-party services** — every external service the app calls, and what each needs in production (live API keys, webhook endpoints, billing enabled).
- **Deploy readiness** — existing deploy config (e.g. `vercel.json`, `Dockerfile`, `eas.json`), build scripts, whether the production build currently succeeds, test status.
- **Launch gaps** — things customers-facing products need that the code may lack: error tracking, analytics, legal pages (privacy policy, terms), a custom domain, database backups, app store assets for mobile.

Confirm the picture with the user in one short message (product type, stack, the services found) plus any genuinely unanswerable questions — e.g. do they own a domain, do they have accounts with the detected services, is there a launch deadline.
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