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name: deploy-staging
description: Deploy the application to the staging environment, including building artifacts, running the pre-deployment validation suite, uploading the artifacts to the staging bucket, rolling the staging cluster, verifying health checks, and posting a deployment summary to the team channel. Use when the user asks to deploy, ship, or release to staging.
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# Deploy Staging

Deploy the application to the staging environment.

## Steps

1. Build the release artifacts with the standard build command.
2. Run the pre-deployment validation suite.
3. Upload the artifacts and roll the staging cluster.
4. Verify health checks and post a summary to the team channel.

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