Apply Michael T. Nygard-inspired production reliability rules when designing failure handling, timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, observability, or deployment behavior.
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# Release It! Skill
Use this skill when a task involves production reliability, integration failure, timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, bulkheads, backpressure, observability, capacity, deployment, or operational readiness.
Before making design or code decisions, read and apply [release-it.mini.md](release-it.mini.md). Use [release-it.md](release-it.md) only as a deeper reference when the mini rules are not enough for the current production-reliability tradeoff.
The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260909.802595f, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_cbeen7i7mcqjv6zr
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ciembor/agent-rules-books/release-it
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e267c8aed935f87062da1b6f24065405b1380b263c46b017f574a29fccf22704
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