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OC · Deploy Ops

Audit gate → staging → production → monitor. v1.2 creates deploy tickets and updates linked PM tickets per env.

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/oc-deploy/oc-deploy staging/oc-deploy audit
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Drop the bundle into .claude/skills/ and Claude Code auto-discovers it on the next session — or point Codex / any MCP agent at the hosted opchain.dev/mcp endpoint.

How you'll use it

Deployment pipeline: audit gate → staging → production → monitoring. Use for /oc-deploy, "deploy this", "ship it", "push to production", "staging", "rollback", "health check", or any deployment task. Trigger liberally.

Trigger with natural language or a slash command:

/oc-deploy/oc-deploy staging/oc-deploy audit
SKILL.md ≈ 17 min read
Below is the file Claude reads on invocation. It's written in the model's voice — "read this", "do that" — not a user guide. The How you'll use it section above is the one for you.
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    Deploy Ops

    On first invocation, read references/orchestrator.md and follow its welcome protocol.

    Orchestrate the full deployment lifecycle: pre-deploy quality gate → staging deploy → smoke test → production promotion → health check → rollback if needed. Built for Cloudflare Workers + D1 + Pages, with the aidops-core monorepo as the primary target.

    /oc-deploy — Command Reference

    When the user types /oc-deploy, display this menu:

    DEPLOY OPS COMMANDS
    ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
    
      PIPELINE
      /oc-deploy staging    Deploy to staging environment
      /oc-deploy prod       Promote staging to production (or direct deploy)
      /oc-deploy rollback   Revert to previous production version
      /oc-deploy status     Show current deployment state
    
      GATES
      /oc-deploy audit      Run pre-deploy audit (calls oc-code-auditor)
      /oc-deploy smoke      Run post-deploy smoke tests
      /oc-deploy health     Check production health
    
      SETUP
      /oc-deploy init       Set up deployment config for a project
      /oc-deploy env        Manage environment variables and secrets
    
      UTILITIES
      /checkpoint        Show checkpoint status
    
    ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
      Type any command to begin. /oc-deploy to see this again.

    How This Skill Works

    CODE (committed)
    
    
    ┌────────────┐     FAIL → block
    │ Pre-deploy │─────────────────► Fix issues first
    │ audit gate │
    └─────┬──────┘
          │ PASS
    
    ┌────────────┐
    │  Staging   │──► smoke tests ──► FAIL → fix + redeploy
    │  deploy    │
    └─────┬──────┘
          │ PASS
    
    ┌────────────┐
    │ Production │──► health check ──► FAIL → auto-rollback
    │  promote   │
    └─────┬──────┘
          │ PASS
    
      Monitoring
      (ongoing)

    Phase 0: Setup (/oc-deploy init)

    Project Detection

    Read the project’s config to determine the deployment target:

    # Check for wrangler.toml (Cloudflare Workers)
    [[ -f wrangler.toml ]] && echo "Cloudflare Workers project detected"
    
    # Check for Pages config
    grep -q "pages" wrangler.toml 2>/dev/null && echo "Pages deployment detected"
    
    # Check for existing deploy scripts
    grep -q '"deploy"' package.json 2>/dev/null && echo "Deploy script found in package.json"

    Deploy Config

    Create or update .oc-deploy-ops.json:

    {
      "project_name": "gtrack",
      "platform": "cloudflare-workers",
      "monorepo": true,
      "monorepo_root": "/home/claude/aidops-core",
      "app_path": "apps/gtrack",
    
      "environments": {
        "staging": {
          "wrangler_env": "staging",
          "d1_database": "gtrack-staging",
          "url": "https://gtrack-staging.aidops.workers.dev",
          "auto_deploy_branch": "staging"
        },
        "production": {
          "wrangler_env": null,
          "d1_database": "gtrack-prod",
          "url": "https://gtrack.aidops.workers.dev",
          "auto_deploy_branch": "main"
        }
      },
    
      "deploy_order": [
        "migrate",
        "deploy-api",
        "deploy-frontend"
      ],
    
      "smoke_tests": [
        { "name": "API health", "url": "/api/health", "expect_status": 200 },
        { "name": "Auth endpoint", "url": "/api/auth/status", "expect_status": 401 },
        { "name": "Frontend loads", "url": "/", "expect_contains": "<html" }
      ],
    
      "rollback": {
        "strategy": "wrangler-rollback",
        "keep_versions": 3
      }
    }

    First-Time Setup Checklist

    1. Detect platform from config files
    2. Check authwrangler whoami or CF API token in env
    3. Check environments — staging/prod wrangler.toml configured?
    4. Check D1 databases — staging and prod DBs exist?
    5. Generate .oc-deploy-ops.json — ask user to confirm/adjust
    6. Verify deploy works — dry-run wrangler deploy --dry-run
    7. Set up smoke test URLs — derive from wrangler.toml routes

    Pre-Deploy Audit Gate (/oc-deploy audit)

    Before any deploy, run two audits in order: oc-code-auditor (code-level findings) then oc-security-auditor (architecture / hardening / threat model). Both must pass for /oc-deploy staging and /oc-deploy prod to proceed.

    1. oc-code-auditor — code-level gate

    # Reuse the existing checkpoint if it's recent
    node scripts/checkpoint.mjs status oc-code-auditor
    # If updated_at < 1h old, reuse. Otherwise:
    #   Skill(skill="oc-code-auditor", args="/oc-audit pre-deploy")

    2. oc-security-auditor — posture gate

    Code-auditor finds SQLi and hardcoded secrets; oc-security-auditor asks “what’s the threat model?” and “is the infra hardened?”. Run it before the first production deploy and any time the surface area changes (new auth flow, new public endpoint, new third-party integration).

    node scripts/checkpoint.mjs status oc-security-auditor
    # Reuse if updated_at < 24h old AND no high-impact changes since.
    # Otherwise:
    #   Skill(skill="oc-security-auditor", args="/oc-security pre-deploy")

    Gate Rules

    Audit ResultDeploy Decision
    No CRITICAL findings (both audits)✅ Proceed
    CRITICAL findings exist (either audit)🚫 Block — must fix before deploy
    HIGH findings (≤ 3 total)⚠️ Warn — proceed with user confirmation
    HIGH findings (> 3 total)🚫 Block — too many unresolved issues
    No audit run⚠️ Warn — suggest running both audits first

    When blocked, show the specific findings and fix commands. When warned, list the findings and ask for explicit confirmation before proceeding.


    Staging Deploy (/oc-deploy staging)

    Deploy Sequence (Cloudflare Workers + D1)

    cd <project-dir>
    
    # 1. Pre-flight
    npm ci
    npx tsc --noEmit          # Type check — fail fast
    npx vitest run            # Tests — fail fast
    
    # 2. Migrate (staging DB)
    npx wrangler d1 migrations apply <staging-db> --remote --env staging
    
    # 3. Deploy Worker (staging)
    npx wrangler deploy --env staging
    
    # 4. Deploy Pages frontend (if applicable)
    if [[ -d frontend ]]; then
      cd frontend && npm ci && npm run build
      npx wrangler pages deploy dist --project-name=<project>-staging
      cd ..
    fi
    
    # 5. Smoke tests (immediate)

    Monorepo Deploy (aidops-core)

    For the aidops monorepo with the deploy API:

    curl -X POST "https://oc-deploy.aidops.workers.dev/deploy" \
      -H "Authorization: Bearer <deploy-token>" \
      -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
      -d '{"app": "<app-name>", "env": "staging"}'

    Fallback to direct wrangler if deploy API isn’t available.

    Post-Staging Smoke Tests (/oc-deploy smoke)

    Run immediately after staging deploy:

    STAGING_URL="<staging-url>"
    PASS=0; FAIL=0
    
    run_smoke() {
      local name="$1" url="$2" expect="$3"
      local status=$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" --max-time 5 "${STAGING_URL}${url}")
      if [[ "$status" == "$expect" ]]; then
        echo "  ✅ $name: $status"; ((PASS++))
      else
        echo "  ❌ $name: $status (expected $expect)"; ((FAIL++))
      fi
    }
    
    echo "Smoke tests: $STAGING_URL"
    run_smoke "API health"     "/api/health"      "200"
    run_smoke "Auth guard"     "/api/auth/status"  "401"
    
    # Content check
    BODY=$(curl -s "${STAGING_URL}/")
    echo "$BODY" | grep -q "<html" && { echo "  ✅ Frontend loads"; ((PASS++)); } || { echo "  ❌ Frontend missing"; ((FAIL++)); }
    
    echo "Result: $PASS passed, $FAIL failed"
    [[ $FAIL -eq 0 ]] && echo "Ready for production." || echo "Fix failures before promoting."

    Production Promotion (/oc-deploy prod)

    Pre-Promotion Checklist

    1. Staging smoke tests passed (read checkpoint)
    2. Code audit clear (no CRITICAL)
    3. User explicitly confirms

    Always ask before production deploy — never auto-promote.

    Deploy Sequence

    cd <project-dir>
    git checkout main && git pull origin main
    
    # Record current version for rollback
    PREV_VERSION=$(npx wrangler deployments list --json 2>/dev/null | \
      python3 -c "import json,sys;d=json.load(sys.stdin);print(d[0]['id'] if d else 'unknown')")
    
    # Migrate → Deploy → Smoke (same as staging but against prod)
    npx wrangler d1 migrations apply <prod-db> --remote
    npx wrangler deploy
    
    # Run health check

    Post-Deploy Health (/oc-deploy health)

    PROD_URL="<production-url>"
    STATUS=$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" --max-time 5 "$PROD_URL/api/health")
    LATENCY=$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{time_total}" --max-time 5 "$PROD_URL/api/health")
    
    echo "Production: $STATUS (${LATENCY}s)"
    
    [[ "$STATUS" != "200" ]] && echo "❌ UNHEALTHY — consider rollback"
    (( $(echo "$LATENCY > 2.0" | bc -l 2>/dev/null) )) && echo "⚠️ High latency"

    Hand off to oc-monitoring-ops

    After a successful production promotion, invoke oc-monitoring-ops to verify post-deploy observability (uptime checks, error tracking, SLO/SLI alarms). Deploy-ops ships it; oc-monitoring-ops watches it.

    Skill(skill="oc-monitoring-ops", args="/oc-monitor verify")

    oc-monitoring-ops reads this skill’s checkpoint to learn what shipped (version, commit SHA, prod URL) and confirms:

    • Uptime monitor is configured and pinging the new deployment.
    • Error tracking sees fresh events from the new version.
    • Any new alerts/SLOs needed for surfaces introduced in this release.

    If oc-monitoring-ops reports gaps (no uptime monitor, no error tracking, new endpoints without SLOs), surface them and let the user decide whether to address now or schedule for a follow-up.


    Rollback (/oc-deploy rollback)

    Wrangler Rollback

    npx wrangler rollback
    # Verify
    curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" "<production-url>/api/health"

    Migration Rollback

    D1 migrations are forward-only. If a migration needs reversal:

    1. Create a new “revert” migration
    2. Apply it
    3. Roll back the Worker code

    Auto-Rollback

    If production health check fails after deploy:

    1. Wait 30 seconds (propagation)
    2. Re-check
    3. If still failing → wrangler rollback + notify user

    Monitoring (Phase 4 extension)

    On-Demand Health Check

    /oc-deploy health runs the full suite:

    • HTTP status check on all smoke test URLs
    • Latency measurement
    • CF Workers analytics via API (request count, error rate) if token available
    • Comparison against baseline (if prior checkpoint exists)

    Cloudflare Analytics

    # Requires CF_API_TOKEN and CF_ACCOUNT_ID
    curl -s "https://oc-api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/$CF_ACCOUNT_ID/workers/analytics/stored" \
      -H "Authorization: Bearer $CF_API_TOKEN" | python3 -c "
    import json, sys
    data = json.load(sys.stdin)
    if data.get('success'):
      t = data['result']['totals']
      r = t.get('requests', {})
      print(f'Requests: {r.get(\"count\",0)}, Errors: {r.get(\"errors\",0)}')
    "

    Notification (Telegram)

    For projects with Telegram integration:

    notify() {
      local msg="$1"
      [[ -n "$TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN" && -n "$TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID" ]] && \
        curl -s -X POST "https://oc-api.telegram.org/bot$TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN/sendMessage" \
          -d "chat_id=$TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID" -d "text=$msg" -d "parse_mode=Markdown"
    }
    
    notify "✅ *gtrack* deployed to production — $(git rev-parse --short HEAD)"

    Checkpoint Integration

    Checkpoint Location

    {project-dir}/.checkpoints/oc-deploy-ops.checkpoint.json

    When to Write

    EventWhat to Save
    Init completePlatform, environments, URLs, auth
    Audit gate resultPass/fail, finding count
    Staging deployedVersion, timestamp, smoke results
    Production promotedVersion, previous version, timestamp
    Health checkStatus, latency, error count
    Rollback executedFrom → to, reason

    skill_state Template

    {
      "current_env": "staging",
      "staging_version": "abc123",
      "prod_version": "def456",
      "prev_prod_version": "ghi789",
      "last_deploy": "2026-04-01T10:00:00Z",
      "smoke_results": { "health": "pass", "auth": "pass", "frontend": "pass" },
      "rollback_available": true
    }

    Cross-Skill Reads

    Reads fromWhy
    oc-code-auditorAudit grade → deploy gate
    oc-app-architectPhase 6 sprint pass → deploy confidence
    oc-git-opsBranch merged → ready to deploy

    Triggered By

    Deploy-ops can be invoked directly, but also gets suggested by other skills:

    • oc-git-ops: After /oc-git-sync completes, oc-git-ops suggests /oc-deploy staging
    • oc-app-architect: After final Phase 6 sprint passes, oc-app-architect suggests /oc-audit pre-deploy/oc-deploy
    • oc-app-architect: Phase 7 (Launch) suggests the deploy pipeline

    When triggered by another skill’s suggestion, read that skill’s checkpoint for context (e.g., what was just pushed, what audit results exist) to skip redundant steps.


    GitHub Actions Template

    For automated CI/CD, generate with /oc-deploy init:

    Read references/github-actions.md for full workflow. Structure:

    jobs:
      test:        # lint + types + unit tests
      audit:       # npm audit, secret scan
      staging:     # wrangler deploy --env staging (PR only)
      production:  # wrangler deploy (main push only)
      smoke:       # post-deploy smoke tests
      notify:      # telegram notification

    Provider Reference (v1.3+)

    The walkthrough above is Cloudflare-Workers-flavored because that’s opchain’s own runtime. v1.3’s platform-expansion sprint added first-class provider sections for the four other targets in oc-stack-forge’s Platform Matrix. Each section gives the deploy command, env-var pattern, smoke-test surface, and rollback path. The audit gate, /oc-deploy audit, runs the same way regardless of provider.

    Render (Django, Node static, Rails alt)

    Deploy command: git push render main (Render auto-builds + deploys on push to the connected branch). For Blueprint-managed projects, the first deploy is render blueprint launch reading render.yaml.

    Env vars: Set via Render dashboard or render.yaml’s envVarGroups. Critical vars for opchain-managed projects:

    • DATABASE_URL — provisioned automatically when render.yaml declares a databases: entry.
    • RENDER_GIT_COMMIT — Render injects this; surface it via /health so smoke tests can verify the right SHA shipped.
    • SECRET_KEY — set as a sync: false env var (UI only) so it’s never in git.

    Migrations: declared in render.yaml under the web service’s buildCommand: or as a separate release step. Render runs them before swapping traffic.

    Smoke tests: curl -s https://<service>.onrender.com/health returns the deployed commit SHA; oc-deploy-ops compares to local HEAD. Latency check uses curl -w '%{time_total}'.

    Rollback: render deploys list --service=<id>render deploys rollback --deploy=<id>. Render keeps the prior image hot for ~30s after a swap so rollback is fast.

    Audit gate: npm run validate-pm-mcp + npm run gen-catalog run via the build-time pipeline; for Django projects, replace with pytest && python manage.py check --deploy.

    Heroku (Rails primary, Django alt)

    Deploy command: git push heroku main. Heroku Pipelines: PRs → review apps (auto), main → staging, manual promote → prod.

    Env vars: heroku config:set KEY=val -a <app>. Critical vars:

    • DATABASE_URL — auto-set when the heroku-postgresql add-on is provisioned.
    • RAILS_MASTER_KEY (Rails) / SECRET_KEY_BASE (Rails legacy) — never in git.
    • HEROKU_SLUG_COMMIT — Heroku injects this in dyno env; surface via /health.

    Migrations: Procfile release: step (bundle exec rake db:migrate for Rails) — Heroku runs it before scaling new dynos. If the release step fails, the deploy aborts and traffic stays on the prior dyno.

    Smoke tests: curl -s https://<app>.herokuapp.com/health for SHA + DB ping. For review-app verification, the URL is dynamic (<app>-pr-<N>.herokuapp.com) — read it from the Heroku API.

    Rollback: heroku releases -a <app> (lists v123, v122, …) → heroku rollback v122 -a <app>. The release step does NOT re-run on rollback — if you need to roll back a migration too, that’s a separate heroku run rails db:rollback.

    Audit gate: Rails projects run bundle exec brakeman and bundle exec rspec in CI before promoting; oc-deploy-ops orchestrates via /oc-deploy audit which dispatches to the project’s bin/audit if present.

    Fly.io (Go primary, Rust alt, anything Dockerfile-based)

    Deploy command: fly deploy (reads fly.toml). For staging vs prod, use separate Fly apps (fly deploy --app <name>-staging).

    Env vars: fly secrets set KEY=val --app <name> (encrypted at rest; injected into the VM env). fly.toml [env] is for non-secret config. Critical vars:

    • DATABASE_URL — Fly Postgres clusters auto-attach via fly postgres attach, which sets this var on the consumer app.
    • PORTfly.toml internal_port must match what the binary listens on.

    Migrations: fly.toml release_command = "/app/migrate up" — runs in a one-shot VM before traffic swaps. Fly aborts the deploy if it exits non-zero.

    Smoke tests: curl -s https://<app>.fly.dev/health returns commit SHA. For multi-region apps, smoke each region: fly status -a <app> --json | jq '.Allocations[].Region' → loop curls.

    Rollback: fly releases list -a <app>fly deploy --image <prior-tag> or fly deploy --rollback. Fly keeps the prior image registered until the next successful deploy, so rollback is image-swap fast.

    Audit gate: Go: go vet ./... && go test ./... && govulncheck ./.... Rust: cargo clippy -- -D warnings && cargo test && cargo audit. oc-deploy-ops dispatches by reading the project root for go.mod / Cargo.toml.

    Shuttle.rs (Rust primary)

    Deploy command: cargo shuttle deploy (reads Shuttle.toml for project name; reads main.rs for infra annotations).

    Env vars: cargo shuttle secrets set KEY=val — Shuttle stores them encrypted; available via #[shuttle_runtime::Secrets] injection in main.rs. Local dev reads Secrets.toml (gitignored) instead.

    Provisioning: Shuttle’s infra-as-code-in-main.rs model: #[shuttle_shared_db::Postgres] annotation on the entry function provisions a managed Postgres on first deploy. No separate dashboard step.

    Migrations: sqlx::migrate!("./src/store/migrations") runs in main.rs on each cold start; idempotent so safe to re-run. Shuttle hot-swaps the binary on deploy without downtime.

    Smoke tests: curl -s https://<project>.shuttleapp.rs/health returns SHA. Shuttle assigns one stable subdomain per project; staging is via a separate project (e.g. <project>-staging).

    Rollback: cargo shuttle deployment list (lists deployment ids in reverse-chrono) → cargo shuttle deployment <id> redeploy. Shuttle keeps the prior binary until the next deploy succeeds.

    Audit gate: same as Fly.io for Rust: cargo clippy -- -D warnings && cargo test && cargo audit.

    What’s NOT first-class (and why)

    The Platform Matrix is intentionally short. These platforms are common but not first-class in v1.3:

    PlatformStatusWhy
    VercelReachable via oc-stack-forge references/deployment-patterns.md, but no v1.3 scaffold recipeOverlaps too closely with CF Workers for opchain’s audience; pick one.
    AWS LambdaSameSteep operational ramp; oc-deploy-ops would need dramatically different audit/rollback shape.
    RailwaySameRender covers the same niche; redundant.
    Cloud RunSameFly.io covers the same niche with a simpler dev loop.
    Bare-metal / VPSOut of scopeoc-deploy-ops is opinionated about managed deploys; bare-metal needs oc-migration-ops, not oc-deploy-ops.

    A future minor release can promote any of these by adding a scaffold recipe in oc-app-architect/references/scaffold-guide.md AND a provider section here AND at least one in-action /demo scenario.


    Pack-aware dispatch (v1.4+)

    v1.4 introduces the oc-stack-forge pack registry (skills/oc-stack-forge/packs/<id>/pack.yml). oc-deploy-ops consumes it at runtime via src/lib/pack-dispatch.js to pick the right provider section above without re-implementing the matrix.

    The contract is intentionally minimal — pack lookups are cheap and the Platform Matrix above is the source of truth for how to deploy. The pack metadata answers which matrix row applies.

    Entry point: getDispatchTarget(packId)

    import { getDispatchTarget } from "../../src/lib/pack-dispatch.js";
    
    const target = getDispatchTarget("python");
    // → { defaultPlatform: "render", supportedPlatforms: ["render", "fly-io"] }
    //   (once PR 7 lands the deploy-target packs)
    // → { defaultPlatform: null,    supportedPlatforms: [] }
    //   while deploy-target packs are still pending (v1.4 PR 3 → PR 7 window)
    // → null when the pack does not exist

    Resolution order:

    1. Pack hit + populated platforms — dispatch to the defaultPlatform’s provider section. The user can override with /oc-deploy ... --platform <id> as long as the override is in supportedPlatforms.
    2. Pack hit + empty platforms — fall back to the Platform Matrix above keyed by language (Python → Render, Ruby → Heroku, Go → Fly.io, Rust → Shuttle, TypeScript → Cloudflare Workers). This is the v1.4 PR 3-through-6 state for the 5 backfilled language packs.
    3. Pack miss — caller error. oc-deploy-ops surfaces unknown pack: <id> and exits. No fuzzy matching.

    Worked example — /oc-deploy staging on a Python project

    1. /oc-deploy staging
    2. Read pack hint from project's oc-stack-forge.checkpoint.json:
         activePack: "python"
    3. getDispatchTarget("python") → { defaultPlatform: null, supportedPlatforms: [] }
    4. Fall back to language → Platform Matrix:
         python → Render
    5. Read the "Render (Django, Node static, Rails alt)" section above.
    6. Run `git push render main`, then `curl /health`, then update PM tickets.

    After PR 7 lands render, fly-io, heroku, shuttle as deploy-target packs with bidirectional graph entries, step 4 above gets short-circuited: the pack’s defaultPlatform is the answer, no fallback needed.

    Why runtime read (and not codegen)?

    The dispatcher is a single-field lookup per deploy invocation — codegen would buy a few μs and lose the property that pack.yml is the single source of truth at the moment oc-deploy-ops actually runs. (oc-api-dev codegens because it needs to template per-language scaffolds into generated source code — different shape, different trade-off.)


    PM-Tool MCP Integration (v1.3+)

    oc-deploy-ops creates a deploy ticket per environment + commit + ship and updates every PM ticket linked to commits in the deploy.

    The runtime contract — concrete tool names, retry policy, idempotency markers, the pm_deferred_actions[] schema, and the extended state vocabulary (staging-verified / shipped / rolled-back / blocked) — lives in oc-integrations-engineer/references/pm-mcp-protocol.md. All MCP calls below honour that contract; this section says only how oc-deploy-ops shapes the deploy ticket and per-event updates.

    Deploy ticket creation

    When /oc-deploy staging or /oc-deploy prod starts and audit gate passes:

    1. Walk the commit range from last-deployed to HEAD.

    2. Extract Refs: and Closes: trailers from each commit; collect the unique ticket id set.

    3. Compose deploy-ticket description, prefixed with the idempotency marker per protocol §3:

      <!-- opchain:oc-deploy-ops:deploy-created:<env>:<HEAD-sha> -->
      
      Environment: {env}
      Range: {prev-sha}..{HEAD-sha}
      Commits: {N}
      Linked tickets: {ids comma-separated, each linked}
      Audit gate: PASS (grade {X})
      Bug-check: PASS
      Smoke tests: pending
    4. Pre-create check: call the registry-resolved list_issues tool (Linear: mcp__claude_ai_Linear__list_issues; GitHub: mcp__mcp-server-github__list_issues) filtered to the configured project + the deploy issue type from pm.yaml.issue_types, description-text query for the marker. If a match exists, reuse the existing ticket id instead of creating a new one.

    5. Otherwise call the registry-resolved create_issue tool (Linear: mcp__claude_ai_Linear__save_issue with no id; GitHub: mcp__mcp-server-github__issue_write action=create) with:

      • issue_type from pm.yaml.issue_types.deploy (default “Deploy” or “Task” if missing).
      • parent / blocked-by relations to each linked ticket, if the PM tool supports them.
    6. Record the deploy-ticket id in oc-deploy-ops.checkpoint.json skill_state.pm.deploy_tickets[].

    Per-event updates

    Each row below uses a unique idempotency marker so retries / re-runs short-circuit per protocol §3. Pre-write check via list_comments (Linear) or issue_read (GitHub) before every comment.

    EventMarkerAction
    Smoke tests pass (staging)<!-- opchain:oc-deploy-ops:staging-verified:<deploy-id> -->add_comment to deploy ticket: PASS + URL; transition deploy ticket → staging-verified (resolved from pm.yaml.states.extended).
    Production ship<!-- opchain:oc-deploy-ops:prod-shipped:<deploy-id> -->add_comment to deploy ticket: prod URL + version stamp; transition → shipped. For each linked ticket, separate marker <!-- opchain:oc-deploy-ops:linked-shipped:<deploy-id>:<ticket-id> --> with body “Shipped to prod via deploy {id}”.
    Rollback<!-- opchain:oc-deploy-ops:rollback:<deploy-id> -->add_comment to deploy ticket: rollback reason + previous-version SHA; transition → rolled-back. For each linked ticket, marker <!-- opchain:oc-deploy-ops:linked-rollback:<deploy-id>:<ticket-id> --> body “Rolled back — re-investigate”.
    Smoke fail<!-- opchain:oc-deploy-ops:smoke-fail:<deploy-id> -->add_comment to deploy ticket: failure summary; transition → blocked; the prod gate refuses.

    State strings (staging-verified / shipped / rolled-back / blocked) must be resolved from pm.yaml.states.extended — never hard-coded — so each project can map them to its actual workflow names.

    Cross-env consistency

    The deploy ticket lives until production ships (or rollback closes the loop). A staging deploy ticket left open >7d auto-comments on itself with marker <!-- opchain:oc-deploy-ops:stale-staging:<deploy-id> --> body “Stale deploy — close manually if abandoned” so the PM tool reflects reality. The 7-day auto-comment is itself idempotent — the marker prevents duplicate stale-warnings on resumed sessions.

    /oc-deploy --retry-pm flush

    Invokes the protocol §4 flush against oc-deploy-ops.checkpoint.json pm_deferred_actions[]. Filter to skill: "oc-deploy-ops" and retriable: true. Surfaces flushed N / failed M. The deploy itself never blocks on PM-MCP; this flush is purely the post-ship reconciliation path.

    Failure modes

    • MCP unavailable / unconfigured → deploy proceeds; intended comments / transitions are deferred per protocol §4. /oc-deploy --retry-pm flushes later.
    • 403 on a per-linked-ticket comment → defer that one entry with retriable: false; the deploy ticket and other linked-ticket comments are unaffected.
    • Deploy spans 50+ tickets → comment on the deploy ticket only; individual linked tickets get a single rollup comment with marker <!-- opchain:oc-deploy-ops:rollup:<deploy-id> --> listing all included tickets to avoid notification spam.

    Principles

    1. Never deploy without a gate. Even quick deploys run the audit check.
    2. Staging first. Always. Even for “small changes.”
    3. Rollback in 30 seconds. Every deploy records the previous version.
    4. Health checks are non-negotiable. Non-200 after deploy = something is wrong.
    5. Deploys should be boring. The feature is the exciting part.
    6. Record everything. The checkpoint is the deploy log.

    Use OC · Deploy Ops in your project

    Drop the SKILL.md into .claude/skills/ or .codex/skills/, download the bundle, or reach it over the hosted MCP endpoint.