pre-release-review

Pre-release Review

Use this skill to run a read-only production release readiness review. The goal is to reduce release time and coordination failures by finding missing deploy materials, unsafe ordering, configuration gaps, data migration gaps, and ambiguous production risks before CI/CD or manual release steps begin.

When to Use This Skill

• Use when the user asks for a release audit, pre-release review, go-live review, or deploy readiness check.
• Use before publishing a tag, deploying production services, or merging a release branch.
• Use when a PR or git range may include migrations, environment changes, queues, cache behavior, object storage assets, or service contract changes.
• Use when the user asks whether a change is safe to ship and needs a read-only risk report.

Non-negotiable rules

• Do not modify source code, configs, migrations, secrets, deployment files, or generated files.
• Do not execute migrations, clear or warm caches, upload assets, trigger CI/CD, deploy services,

publish tags, rotate secrets, or change remote infrastructure.

• Produce a concise report that lists only confirmed problems and plausible risks needing

confirmation. Do not bury the reader in clean checklist items.

• Sort findings from highest to lowest priority.
• Include module, finding, evidence, inferred owner, risk, and recommended action for each item.
• Never reveal pri