# migrate

Walks an app with hardcoded prompts through a five-stage move to LaunchDarkly AgentControl, pausing for your confirmation at each stage.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 1800 installs · ★ 28
- Author: launchdarkly
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/launchdarkly/ai-tooling/tree/HEAD/skills/agentcontrol/migrate/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/launchdarkly-migrate

## What it does

The skill breaks the job into five stages: audit what is hardcoded (prompt, model, parameters, tools), wrap the call, move the tools, add tracking, attach evaluators. It stops after every stage until you confirm.

During the wrap stage the SDK gets installed, a config is created in LaunchDarkly with a fallback mirroring your current values, and the call site is rewritten to fetch that config fresh on every request. Then each tool's JSON schema is pulled out and attached to the config, and a tracker (duration, tokens, success or error) goes around the provider call.

You need the remotely hosted LaunchDarkly MCP server configured and `LD_SDK_KEY`, the server-side SDK key from the target project. Python and Node.js/TypeScript are the covered stacks; Go, Ruby and .NET get install commands only. One common first-run failure: on an agent with a loop, minting the tracker inside `call_model` produces N `runId`s and trips the at-most-once guards, so create it once per user turn in a `setup_run` node. The skill also advises checking the SDK CHANGELOG before applying any pattern, since methods can be renamed or split after its last update.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add launchdarkly/ai-tooling --skill migrate -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add launchdarkly/ai-tooling --skill migrate -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add launchdarkly/ai-tooling --skill migrate -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install launchdarkly/ai-tooling migrate
```

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

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add launchdarkly/ai-tooling --skill migrate -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/launchdarkly/ai-tooling --path skills/agentcontrol/migrate
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add launchdarkly/ai-tooling --skill migrate -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/launchdarkly/ai-tooling/tree/HEAD/skills/agentcontrol/migrate/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- pull model and prompt config out of source code
- switch direct OpenAI, Anthropic, Bedrock or Gemini calls to a LaunchDarkly config
- list everything hardcoded before starting a migration
- attach tool JSON schemas to the config and swap old tool lists
- track tokens and duration for each model request

## Example prompts
- audit my code and show me what's hardcoded in the prompts and parameters
- wrap the model call in a LaunchDarkly config with a fallback to current values
- move the agent tools into the config and wire up request tracking

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

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```text
---
name: migrate
description: "Migrate an application with hardcoded LLM prompts to a full LaunchDarkly AgentControl implementation in five stages: audit the code, wrap the call, move the tools, add tracking, attach evaluators. Use when the user wants to externalize model/prompt configuration, move from direct provider calls (OpenAI, Anthropic, Bedrock, Gemini, Strands) to a managed config, or stage a full hardcoded-to-LaunchDarkly migration."
license: Apache-2.0
compatibility: Requires the remotely hosted LaunchDarkly MCP server
metadata:
  author: launchdarkly
  version: "0.1.0"
---

# Migrate to AgentControl

You're using a skill that will guide you through migrating an application from hardcoded LLM prompts to a full LaunchDarkly AgentControl implementation. Your job is to run the migration in **five stages**, stopping at each stage for the user to confirm:

1. **Audit the code** — read-only scan that produces a structured list of everything hardcoded (prompt, model, parameters, tools, app-scoped knobs).
2. **Wrap the call** — install the SDK, create the config in LaunchDarkly with a fallback that mirrors the hardcoded values, and rewrite the call site to fetch the config fresh on every request.
3. **Move the tools** — extract each tool's JSON schema, attach it to the config, and swap every call site that references the old tool list.
4. **Add tracking** — wire the per-request tracker (duration, tokens, success/error) around the provider call.
5. **Attach evaluators** — either offline evals via the Playground + Datasets, or online judges that score sampled traffic automatically.

> **⚠️ Three first-run failure modes to avoid.**
>
> 1. **Tracker in the wrong scope.** For an agent with a loop, mint `create_tracker()` once per user turn in a `setup_run` entry node — not inside `call_model`. Per-iteration factory calls produce N `runId`s and trip the at-most-once guards. See [agent-mode-frameworks.md § Custom `StateGraph`](references/agent-mode-frameworks.md).
> 2. **`load_chat_model` wrapper reuse.** Templates like `langchain-ai/react-agent` ship a `load_chat_model(f"{provider}/{name}")` helper that wraps `init_chat_model(...)` and silently drops every variation parameter. **Delete it** (don't just avoid using it) and replace call sites with `create_langchain_model(ai_config)`.
> 3. **Fallthrough not flipped after `/configs-create`.** A freshly-created config's fallthrough points at an auto-generated disabled variation, so the SDK returns `enabled=False` until `/configs-targeting` runs. Flip it before Stage 2 verification.
```
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