Ship and Monitor

SkillCloud & infra

This skill lets your agent ship code changes and then confirm the deployments actually went live. After a merge, it watches beta deployments, the docs production lane, and release tails to complete post-merge verification. It can also carry out a manual production promotion when you explicitly request one.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

After adding it, ask your agent to run the ship flow when you want the release checked after merging. Use it whenever the standard ship process needs post-merge verification.

Then ask your AI: use the Ship and Monitor skill

What your AI can do with it

  • Ship code changes through the guarded ship flow
  • Verify that deployments went live after a merge
  • Monitor beta deployments
  • Monitor the docs production lane
  • Watch release tails as part of post-merge verification
  • Carry out manual production promotions when you explicitly request them

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by builderio/agent-native in .agents/skills/ship-and-monitor/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Use the normal /ship workflow, then add the post-merge monitoring described below. Read .agents/skills/ship/SKILL.md and follow every step through /new-branch; /ship intentionally ends after merge and branch rotation.

Deployment split

Merges to main trigger .github/workflows/deploy-beta-sites-prebuilt.yml, which builds in GitHub Actions and uploads prebuilt artifacts to the independent Netlify beta sites at beta.*.agent-native.com. Netlify Git-connected auto-builds are disabled, so do not wait for Netlify build queues or deploy-preview checks; verify the Actions run and its per-site smoke checks. Production promotion is manual. A healthy beta deploy is not proof that production changed, and a production deploy is not expected unless an explicit manual promotion was started for the task. The public docs site is the temporary exception: matching main changes trigger .github/workflows/deploy-docs-production.yml, which publishes www.agent-native.com directly and then disables its Git-connected Netlify builds. There is no beta docs site today.

Use .github/workflows/deploy-production-sites-prebuilt.yml or the targeted promote-netlify-deploy.yml workflow to promote a critical fix and let it manage Netlify lock transitions. Do not manually remove or clear a Netlify lock as a deployment step; clearing one is not the production promotion.

Post-merge monitoring

After /new-branch:

  1. Confirm the merged PR and merge commit are present in origin/main.
  2. Check every workflow attached to that commit, the beta deployment status, and package publication when applicable. Wait for publication and use an independent beta URL smoke check when the affected surface is observable.
  3. If the task changed docs, verify the docs production workflow and www.agent-native.com separately. If the task explicitly included manual promotion of another production site, verify that promotion and its URL separately. Otherwise report those other production sites as intentionally not promoted, not as blocked by Netlify.
  4. Re-read the merged PR for new review or bot feedback. If actionable post-merge feedback or a release/deploy failure appears, fix it on the fresh branch, run the smallest meaningful check, and invoke /ship for the follow-up.

Keep configured, source-tested, built-runtime, beta-deployed, production- promoted, and observed-live claims separate. A merge or green test is not live proof.

Related skills

  • /ship for the normal guarded flow without post-merge monitoring.
  • /ship-now for the fast admin-merge path, which already includes monitoring.
  • /new-branch for the required branch rotation after merge.

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Source
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