| name | production-readiness |
| description | Use for launch, migration, traffic shift, release readiness, go/no-go, production impact, customer-impacting changes, recovery, rollback, observability, SLO, ownership, or operational readiness reviews. |
Core Rule
Do not claim production readiness without reviewable evidence, explicit blockers, or a dated risk record.
Workflow
- Classify the scope:
- local checkpoint
- external artifact
- production/customer-impacting change
- Classify impact dimensions:
- external commitment
- customer criticality
- data sensitivity
- state durability
- blast radius
- Gather evidence before making readiness claims:
- architecture map or textual component map
- dependencies and fault domains
- rollout and rollback plan
- SLOs/error budget, dashboards, alerts, runbooks
- capacity/load-test data
- backup/restore or DR evidence when stateful
- threat model, access controls, secrets, vulnerability status
- Mark each domain as
Pass, Blocker, Exception, Follow-up, or Not applicable.
- A gap is a blocker when it can violate user, data, security, recovery, or rollback requirements before launch.
- A gap is a follow-up only when launch risk remains bounded and the action, owner, check path, and due date are explicit.
- For manual or semi-automated launch paths, name launch owner, rollback owner, responder handoff, watch window, and success/abort checks.
- For automated paths, name the automation path and its rollback trigger.
Output Scaling
If scope is ambiguous, state the assumption first:
I am treating this as local-only because it is not being pushed, published, deployed, or exposed to users. If wrong, tell me whether this is public or production/customer-impacting.
Use compact output for local or external artifacts; use the full matrix for production/customer-impacting changes.
Output Shape
## Production Readiness Review
### Scope And Impact
| dimension | applies? | evidence / assumption |
|---|---|---|
### Readiness Matrix
| domain | status | evidence | blocker / exception / follow-up |
|---|---|---|---|
### Architecture And Dependencies
- Component map:
- Critical dependencies:
- Fault domains:
### Rollout, Rollback, And Watch
- Launch path:
- Rollback path:
- Owner or automation:
- Watch window:
- Success checks:
- Abort checks:
### Blockers
| blocker | required evidence | owner | due date |
|---|---|---|---|
### Exceptions
| accepted risk | compensating control | expiry | refresh trigger |
|---|---|---|---|
### Advisory Posture
- Ready / not ready / ready with exceptions:
- Highest risk:
- Next check:
Calibration
- The agent gives an advisory posture; the user decides go/no-go.
- Do not mark a checklist green without evidence paths, commands, dashboard names, runbooks, or explicit assumptions.
- Do not use
Not applicable to skip security, recovery, or incident checks without rationale.