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Release Gate

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xiaolai·vlatest·devops·ISC

The Release Gate skill automates deployment approvals, streamlining workflows and ensuring critical checks before releases occur for safer DevOps practices.

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  1. 1

    Run this in your project

    terminal
    $ npx skills add xiaolai/vmark --skill release-gate -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

xiaolai

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Live repository

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Automated safety checks

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  • 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 undeclared network calls: passed

    Makes no network calls.

    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.

  • No obfuscated payloads: passed

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  • No credential access: passed

    Reads no keys, tokens, keychains or credential files.

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  • Pinned to a commit: passed

    Scanned xiaolai/vmark at 241a25302e.

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Commit
241a25302e
Manifest
.claude/skills/release-gate/SKILL.md
Scanned
2 files, 36 lines
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About this skill

The release-gate skill enables AI agents to verify deployment readiness by checking specific pre-release conditions before allowing code to reach production environments. It acts as a safety checkpoint, ensuring that automated pipelines only proceed when critical quality and compliance criteria are met.

When to use it

  • Preventing accidental deployments when security scans or vulnerability assessments fail.
  • Blocking releases if required documentation, such as changelogs or release notes, is missing.
  • Enforcing environment-specific rules, like ensuring a staging test suite passes before going live.
  • Stopping deployment flows when resource constraints, such as insufficient compute capacity, are detected.

Key capabilities

  • Validates pre-deployment prerequisites against defined business rules.
  • Integrates with existing CI/CD pipelines to halt or allow progression automatically.
  • Provides clear feedback on why a release was blocked based on failed gates.

Example prompts

  • "Run the release-gate checks for the latest build before deploying to production."
  • "Why was my deployment blocked? Show me which specific gate conditions were not met."
  • "Configure a release-gate rule to require two-factor authentication approval for any hotfixes."

Tips & gotchas

Ensure your CI/CD pipeline is properly configured with the necessary credentials and access tokens before enabling this skill, or gates will fail immediately. Define clear, measurable criteria for each gate to avoid ambiguous blocking scenarios that delay releases without providing actionable insights.