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Emergency Release Workflow

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bobmatnyc·vlatest·devops·MIT

Automates critical software emergency releases, ensuring rapid deployment while adhering to pre-defined safety checks and approvals.

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    Run this in your project

    terminal
    $ npx skills add bobmatnyc/claude-mpm-skills --skill emergency-release-workflow -a claude-code

  2. Uses the open-source skills CLI and needs Node.js. Add -g to install it for your user instead of this project.

What we know about this skill

Publisher

bobmatnyc

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Install target

Live repository

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Automated safety checks

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This skill failed 1 of 6 checks. A failure is not proof of bad intent; it means something in the code needs a human to look at it before you run it.

  • No undeclared network calls: failed

    Contacts 1 host that is neither well-known infrastructure nor declared in the skill's frontmatter: api.production.com.

    Every host the skill dials — from its scripts, its config endpoints or the commands it tells the agent to run — is either well-known package and API infrastructure or declared in its own frontmatter. Links in documentation are not counted.

    Hosts contacted

    api.production.comundeclared

    What it found

    • toolchains/universal/emergency/emergency-release-workflow/SKILL.md:323contacts api.production.com
      curl -X POST https://api.production.com/auth/login \

  • Declares what it does: passed

    SKILL.md parses and declares a name and a description.

    SKILL.md exists, its frontmatter parses, and it declares a name and a description.

  • No obfuscated payloads: passed

    No encoded or obfuscated payloads.

    No base64, hex or compressed blob is decoded and then executed, and no encoded shell commands.

  • No credential access: passed

    Reads no keys, tokens, keychains or credential files.

    Neither the code nor the SKILL.md instructions read SSH keys, cloud credentials, keychains, token stores, browser cookie databases or dotfiles that hold secrets.

  • No pipe-to-shell installers: passed

    No pipe-to-shell or download-and-run installers.

    No `curl … | sh` pattern, in the code or in the instructions, that runs code fetched at run time.

  • Pinned to a commit: passed

    Scanned bobmatnyc/claude-mpm-skills at 718070a7d6.

    The exact upstream commit SHA that was scanned is recorded, so the result refers to specific bytes.

Commit
718070a7d6
Manifest
toolchains/universal/emergency/emergency-release-workflow/SKILL.md
Scanned
2 files, 600 lines
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About this skill

What it does

This workflow enables AI agents to bypass standard deployment gates and push code changes directly to production environments during critical incidents. It automates the manual approval steps usually required for releases, allowing for immediate restoration of service when automated pipelines fail or are too slow.

When to use it

  • Service Outages: When a critical bug causes an immediate outage requiring instant rollback or patching.
  • Pipeline Failures: When standard CI/CD automation breaks and manual intervention is the only path to recovery.
  • Compliance Bypasses: Situations where regulatory requirements normally block urgent fixes, but business continuity takes precedence.
  • Emergency Hotfixes: Deploying security patches that must go live before the next scheduled maintenance window.

Key capabilities

  • Automatically identifies and executes emergency release procedures without human approval.
  • Modifies standard deployment workflows to skip validation gates and staging environments.
  • Logs all bypass actions for post-incident audit and compliance review.
  • Integrates with existing infrastructure as code (IaC) tools to apply changes instantly.

Example prompts

  • "Initiate an emergency release workflow to revert the last commit because the payment gateway is down."
  • "Bypass the staging validation step and deploy the hotfix for the database connection timeout immediately."
  • "Execute the emergency release protocol to restore service while logging the incident details for the post-mortem."

Tips & gotchas

Ensure you have a robust rollback strategy in place before triggering this workflow, as it removes safety checks. Always document the specific reason for bypassing standard procedures to maintain audit trails and prevent future incidents.