release-and-deployment SKILL.md skillA
release-and-deployment from cbrock84/headcount is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add cbrock84/headcount/release-and-deployment@git:20260916.0e7cd01Pins git:20260916.0e7cd01 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- cbrock84/headcount
- Path
plugins/technology/skills/release-and-deployment/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20260916.0e7cd01, committed Sep 16, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 29, 2026
- Size
- 3,648 bytes
- Repository stars
- 2,543
- License
- MIT
Ships changes safely and often — pipelines, deployment strategies, feature flags, rollback, and database changes. Use this to design a deployment pipeline, reduce release risk, roll out a risky change gradually, plan a schema migration, or work out why releases are infrequent and frightening.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Release and deployment Release risk is dominated by batch size. Large infrequent releases are dangerous because many changes land at once and nobody can tell which one broke it — so teams release less often, which makes each release larger. The loop is the problem. ## Separate deploy from release Deploying code and exposing behavior to users are different acts, and coupling them forces every deployment to be a business decision. Decouple with flags: deploy continuously, expose deliberately. This makes rollback a configuration change rather than a redeployment, which is the difference between seconds and minutes at the worst possible time. Flags are inventory and rot. Give each an owner and a removal date; a codebase full of stale flags has combinatorial states nobody has tested. ## The pipeline is the quality gate Automate everything between commit and production, and let the pipeline reject. Manual steps get skipped under pressure, which is exactly when they matter. Order gates fast-to-slow so failure is cheap: lint and unit tests, then integration, then anything requiring a deployed environment. A pipeline slow enough to be circumvented is worse than a fast one …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add cbrock84/headcount/release-and-deployment@sha256:43e0eff9fc65a956The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260916.0e7cd01, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Aug 29, 2026 and Sep 16, 2026, about one every 6 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260916.0e7cd01 latest | 2026-09-16 | 0e7cd01 | 3,648 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260901.49e89d6 | 2026-09-01 | 49e89d6 | 3,309 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260829.2464776 | 2026-08-29 | 2464776 | 2,809 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260829.3b7c308 | 2026-08-29 | 3b7c308 | 2,812 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (3648 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
cbrock84/headcount · 2,543 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-18 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_n6jto5ot7uwb5svg GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=cbrock84/headcount/release-and-deployment GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/43e0eff9fc65a956fe7c0e4363f472f6b7355350130cc5f5258ff86240556139
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Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.