Back to prompt library

Build a pre-release checklist

You're worried about missing a migration, a config change or the rollback before going live.

When to use it The day before a release

What you get

Release checks and blockers specific to this project.

Before you start

  • CI, deployment and environment config are readable

Steps

  1. Identify the build artifacts and deploy target
  2. Check required environment variables and migrations
  3. List smoke tests and monitoring
  4. Define rollback triggers and owners

Deliverables

  • Release gate
  • Blockers
  • Rollback steps

Done when

  • Every item can be verified
  • Missing config isn't marked as done

Paste this into your agent

Do a read-only assessment of whether this project is ready to release. Check the build, tests, data migrations, environment variables, secrets, caching, health checks, monitoring, backups, smoke tests and rollback. Sort the results into pass, blocker and needs human sign-off. Do not deploy. Stop once you've produced the above; don't go on to anything else.