Ship

Overview

Use this skill to prepare a feature or change for production. The goal is to make launch decisions explicit: what ships, how it rolls out, what is monitored, when to stop, and how to recover.

Workflow

1. Identify the release scope, owner, timeline, users affected, dependencies, and risk level.
2. Build a pre-launch checklist:
   • Tests, migrations, feature flags, documentation, support readiness, analytics, alerts, and runbooks.
3. Define rollout strategy:
   • Internal, beta, percentage rollout, region/account cohorts, or all-at-once when low risk.
4. Specify success metrics and guardrails:
   • Product metrics, reliability metrics, error rates, latency, revenue, support volume, and user feedback.
5. Create rollback and mitigation steps:
   • Flag disablement, revert path, data repair, comms, and owner escalation.
6. Plan launch communications for affected teams and users.
7. After launch, compare live metrics against expected ranges and decide whether to continue, pause, expand, or roll back.