claude-release-workflow

Snapshot in-progress work as a GitHub PR and rebuild the local Docker container so you can test the feature branch on localhost. Does NOT merge, does NOT touch production, does NOT update README or project notes (premature, that happens at /release time). Use when you want to capture a checkpoint of feature work, open a PR for review, and test locally before deciding it's ready to ship. Triggers on "checkpoint", "open a PR", "draft a PR", "snapshot this", "let me test this locally".

Post-deploy smoke test of a live production service. Verifies the deploy landed (live commit matches what /release pushed), hits the health endpoint and 2-4 key user-facing endpoints, checks the DEBUG-off 404 behavior, and scans recent host logs for tracebacks and 5xx. Read-only, never mutates the service; reports pass/fail per check and recommends rollback or fix-forward on failure. Use after /release, or when the user says "production smoke", "smoke test prod", "verify the deploy", "is prod healthy", "check the live site after the release".

Ship to production. The single "ship it" verb for any project: handles both PR mode (merges open PRs targeting main) and trunk mode (commits straight to main). Updates README.md + project notes, pushes to all remotes, verifies the auto-deploy (Render / Vercel / etc.), and rebuilds the local Docker container so localhost matches prod. Triggers on "release", "ship it", "deploy", "ship to prod", "merge and release", "push to prod".