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shipping-and-launch

Prepares production launches. Use when preparing to deploy to production. Use when you need a pre-launch checklist, when setting up monitoring, when planning a staged rollout, or when you need a rollback strategy.

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The canonical home for this skill is shipping-and-launch in addyosmani/agent-skills

SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

62%Scale 1-5

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

This skill provides a comprehensive production launch guide with strong workflow clarity and good actionability through concrete thresholds, checklists, and code examples. However, it is significantly over-verbose for a Claude skill—much of the content (rationalizations table, red flags, basic concepts about monitoring and feature flags) explains things Claude already knows. The content also suffers from redundancy, inlining detailed security/accessibility/performance checklists while simultaneously referencing them as separate files.

Suggestions

Cut the 'Common Rationalizations' table, 'Red Flags' list, and 'When to Use' section entirely—these explain concepts Claude already understands and waste tokens.

Remove the inlined Security, Performance, and Accessibility checklist sections since they're already referenced as separate files in 'See Also'; keep only a brief mention directing to those files.

Trim explanatory prose throughout (e.g., the Overview paragraph, feature flag 'Rules' that are common knowledge) to focus on the novel, project-specific guidance.

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Conciseness

Significantly verbose for a Claude skill. The 'Common Rationalizations' table, 'When to Use' section, 'Red Flags' list, and extensive explanations of concepts like feature flags, monitoring, and rollback strategies are things Claude already understands well. The checklist items for security, accessibility, and performance are generic best practices that don't add novel knowledge. Much of this reads like a tutorial for junior engineers rather than concise instructions for Claude.

2 / 5

Actionability

Provides concrete checklists, executable TypeScript code examples for error boundaries and feature flags, specific rollout decision thresholds with numeric values, and a structured rollback plan template. Minor gaps include the rollback plan being a markdown template rather than executable commands, and some code examples being illustrative rather than copy-paste ready for a specific stack.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The staged rollout sequence is clearly numbered with explicit validation checkpoints at each stage (health check, error monitoring, 24-hour windows). The rollout decision thresholds table provides concrete advance/hold/rollback criteria. The post-launch verification steps are sequenced with specific checks. Feedback loops are present (monitor → compare → advance or roll back).

5 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

The 'See Also' section references four external files (definition-of-done.md, security-checklist.md, performance-checklist.md, accessibility-checklist.md), which is good structure. However, no bundle files are provided, so these references are unverifiable. More importantly, the SKILL.md itself inlines extensive content (security checklist, accessibility checklist, performance checklist) that it simultaneously references as separate files, creating redundancy and suggesting poor content splitting.

3 / 5

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Description

78%Scale 1-5

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

This is a solid description with excellent completeness due to its explicit 'Use when' clauses covering multiple trigger scenarios. The main weakness is that the 'what' portion is somewhat vague—'prepares production launches' doesn't specify the concrete outputs or actions the skill performs. Trigger term coverage is good but could benefit from additional deployment-related synonyms.

Suggestions

Replace 'Prepares production launches' with more specific actions like 'Generates pre-launch checklists, configures monitoring alerts, designs staged rollout plans, and creates rollback strategies for production deployments'.

Add common synonyms and related terms like 'go-live', 'release', 'deployment plan', 'canary deployment' to improve trigger term coverage.

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Specificity

Names the domain (production launches) and lists several related concepts (pre-launch checklist, monitoring, staged rollout, rollback strategy), but these are more like categories than concrete actions. It says 'prepares' but doesn't specify what concrete steps it performs (e.g., 'generates checklists', 'configures monitoring dashboards', 'creates rollback scripts').

3 / 5

Completeness

Clearly answers both 'what' (prepares production launches) and 'when' with an explicit 'Use when' clause listing multiple concrete trigger scenarios: deploying to production, needing a pre-launch checklist, setting up monitoring, planning staged rollouts, or needing rollback strategies.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Includes several natural trigger terms users would say: 'deploy to production', 'pre-launch checklist', 'monitoring', 'staged rollout', 'rollback strategy'. Missing some common synonyms like 'go-live', 'release', 'deployment plan', 'canary deployment', or 'blue-green deployment'.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Fairly distinct with its focus on production deployment preparation. Could have minor overlap with general DevOps or CI/CD skills, but the specific mention of pre-launch checklists, staged rollouts, and rollback strategies narrows the scope well.

4 / 5

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