hackathon-deployment-prep

Goal

Ensure the project is reliably deployed and demo-ready before judging begins, by generating a deployment checklist, validating the demo environment, loading test data, and defining a fallback plan for every critical failure scenario.

Trigger Conditions

Use this skill when:

• Implementation is complete and the demo path runs end-to-end
• The project is being deployed to a cloud platform (Vercel, Render, Railway, etc.) for the first time
• The team needs to validate the demo environment before judging
• A rehearsal has revealed instability in the demo path
• Invoked during Phase 8 (Delivery), after hackathon-test-generator and before hackathon-submission-prep; re-invoke after any deployment change

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