deployment-expert

# Deployment Expert Skill - Vercel & Railway **Skill Type:** Comprehensive Deployment Management **For Agent:** @shawar-2.0 **Platforms:** Vercel (Frontend) + Railway (Backend) --- ## Overview This skill enables AI agents to act as deployment experts for Vercel and Railway. It provides CLI guidance, troubleshooting techniques, and investigation strategies for debugging deployment issues. **Target Use Cases:** - Investigate deployment failures - Debug build errors - Fix environment variable issues - Troubleshoot domain and networking problems - Optimize deployment performance - Handle serverless function errors --- ## Vercel Deployment Expert Use for frontend deployments and edge/serverless issues. Start here: 1. Check build logs and reproduce locally. 2. Verify env vars and project settings (build command, output dir). 3. Validate domain/DNS and SSL when applicable. Detailed guide: - `references/vercel.md` (CLI commands, troubleshooting, DNS) --- ## Railway Deployment Expert Use for backend/API runtime and infrastructure issues. Start here: 1. Check build logs, then runtime logs. 2. Verify `$PORT` usage, start command, and env vars. 3. Test health endpoints and database connectivity. Detailed guide: - `references/railway.md` (CLI commands, troubleshooting) --- ## Cross-Platform Deployment Strategies Use when choosing between platforms or wiring Vercel frontend to Railway backend. See `references/cross-platform.md` for the decision tree and hybrid configuration examples. --- ## Best Practices and Quick Commands See `references/operations.md` for the pre-deploy checklist, health checks, and quick reference commands. --- **Last Updated:** 2025-11-23 **Maintained By:** @shawar-2.0 **Source:** DEPLOYMENT_EXPERT_SKILL.md.pdf --- > Converted and distributed by [TomeVault](https://tomevault.io/claim/ak-eyther) — claim your Tome and manage your conversions. <!-- tomevault:4.0:skill_md:2026-04-14 -->