Pre-Flight Check

A checklist to run before committing or deploying backend and full-stack changes. The bugs it catches aren't things a typechecker or linter will find — they're mismatches between two places that are supposed to agree (route order, schema vs. query, frontend field vs. backend schema, response envelope shape), or a call site that never checked whether the thing it called actually succeeded.

This skill is a template. Steps 3, 5, 8, and 11 reference conventions (response envelope shape, schema location, table ownership, database engine) that differ per project — adapt the specifics to whatever this repo actually does. The value is in the shape of each check, not the literal example.

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