staging-validation-phase

This skill orchestrates the staging validation phase, which occurs after /ship-staging and before /ship-prod in the staging-prod deployment workflow.

Core responsibilities:

• Run automated smoke tests on staging environment
• Test critical user flows manually (authentication, core features, payments)
• Verify data migrations executed successfully
• Test rollback capability (actual rollback + roll-forward)
• Document sign-off decision (approve/reject with justification)
• Update state.yaml with validation results

Inputs: Staging deployment (URL, deployment ID, migration results) Outputs: Validation report, sign-off decision, state.yaml update Expected duration: 30-60 minutes