Release Rollback Drill Review

Use this skill to convert release rollback drill, rollback rehearsal, deployment recovery, migration rollback, feature flag kill switch, app-store rollback, and incident-readiness questions into a concrete artifact with owners, gates, metrics, and recovery paths.

Workflow

1. Identify release surface, rollback mechanism, irreversible steps, stateful data, dependencies, monitoring, trigger threshold, owners, communication path, and proof artifact.
2. Read references/release-rollback-drill-patterns.md.
3. Classify the situation as code rollback, config rollback, feature-flag kill switch, database migration rollback, mobile/store rollback, desktop updater rollback, dependency rollback, or customer communication drill.
4. Define drill scenario, preconditions, execution steps, success criteria, time target, monitoring, customer impact, owner roles, and lessons learned.
5. Produce rollback drill plan, state machine, decision table, event schema, readiness checklist, runbook diff, and evidence package.

When not to use

• Do not use for generic advice the base model already handles without this skill's specific artifact contract.

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