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Recovers from a Friday-night auto-merged major upgrade. Use it when a major bump merged unattended and the rollback stretched across the weekend. Key trigger: a major version merged outside staffed hours with no human approval. Not for: a Friday merge a human approved and staffed; that is a staffing choice, not an aut…
Use when an agent ran npm audit fix --force unattended and the resulting PR is too big to review. Covers reverting, replacing --force with targeted fixes, and gating security PRs on blast-radius limits. Not for a single failing npm install or for manual audit-fix workflows.
Recovers from npm audit fix dying mid-run with ERESOLVE: restoring the lockfile from git, reinstalling clean, and applying the security fixes one package at a time instead of letting audit fix rewrite the tree blindly. Use when audit fix breaks the tree with peer-dependency conflicts. Not for ERESOLVE on plain npm ins…
Prevents rollbacks landing on the same bug with version verification. Use when a rollback does not fix the issue. Key trigger: rollback followed by the same failure.
Sequences incident reporting after containment with explicit phase gates. Use when reports precede containment. Key trigger: reports describing uncontained incidents as resolved.
A step-by-step checklist for switching traffic from the blue environment to green safely: health-check and warm green, shift traffic gradually, watch error rates, and keep blue alive as instant rollback. Use when planning zero-downtime deploys, writing release runbooks, or letting an agent drive a deployment. Not for …
Recovers an onboarding agent that hits the GitHub API rate limit in the middle of repo provisioning. For automated setup where new-hire repos stall halfway. Trigger: 403 rate limit errors mid-provisioning. Not for authentication failures, which fail on the first call.
Makes an agent's key rotation survive a cloud API 500 mid-run: idempotent steps with resume markers. Use when rotations die partway. Not for permission errors.
Makes offboarding resilient when a helpdesk agent's PowerShell remote session drops mid-run: idempotent steps, checkpoints, and per-system verification. Use when partial deprovisioning leaves accounts half-removed. Not for session drops unrelated to offboarding.
Fixes resuming a codemod that crashed after converting 200 files, leaving the repo half on the old API. Use when tests fail both ways and the transform needs a safe resume point. Key trigger: git shows ~200 modified files and the rest still use the old API.
Bisects a giant grouped security-update PR to find the single bump that broke CI, so the rest can merge while the culprit is quarantined. Use it when a grouped update PR goes red and the diff is too big to eyeball. Key trigger: grouped PR, red CI, hundreds of changed files, unknown culprit.
Fixes agents that bundle many unrelated major upgrades into one PR, making failures unbisectable. Use when a grouped upgrade PR fails and nobody can tell which bump caused it. Key trigger: one PR with 15 unrelated majors and CI red on several of them.
Shows an SDR agent how to recover from a mid-run cron restart without re-enrolling leads: commit a checkpoint row per batch and make enrollment idempotent. Use when a restart, crash, or redeploy replays the sequence from scratch and double-enrolls leads. Not for webhook double-delivery dedupe, CRM rate-limit retries, …
How to audit an npm lockfile for supply-chain risk: running npm audit and reading it properly, reviewing lockfile diffs in pull requests, spotting suspicious postinstall scripts and maintainer changes, and enforcing dependency review in CI. Use when npm audit reports vulnerabilities, a dependency update looks sketchy,…
A human-in-the-loop workflow for agent safety: run in plan mode, read the plan like a diff, check blast radius, approve or reject explicitly, and require re-review on mid-run changes. Use before an agent changes code, data, infrastructure, or money, or when building an audit trail of approvals. Triggers: 'review agent…
Shows how to fix retire an agent process layer without breaking hidden consumers, and prove the replacement loop. Use it when you hit this exact problem. Skip it when your error message or symptom looks different.
Keeps a signup run log that survives restarts: append-only JSONL, one event per line, flushed per write, with deterministic keys for resume. Use in any signup automation that runs unattended. Triggers: 'signup run log', 'run log survives restarts', 'resume signup automation'. Not for: logging credentials or verificati…
Versions operational knowledge as code: runbooks in git next to the services they describe, narrative plus executable scripts, CI linting, peer review, and release tags. Use when runbooks live in wikis or heads and go stale, or when agents need reliable procedures. Not for one-off improvisation or real-time incident c…
Puts human approval gates in front of agent-initiated deploys using paused rollouts, environment protection rules, and one-command approve paths that leave durable attributed records. Use when an agent prepares production deploys or a pipeline accepts agent input. Not for fully automated CD without agents, dev targets…
A hardening skill for CI pipelines against supply-chain attacks: pinning actions by SHA, least-privilege tokens, OIDC instead of stored credentials, separating build from publish, and provenance. Use when securing GitHub Actions or any CI, or after a compromised-dependency incident. Triggers: 'secure CI pipeline', 'pi…
Shows how to fix egress path filter review corrections: keys, decoding gate, telemetry, false denials, one scratch pipeline. Use it when you hit this exact problem. Skip it when your error message or symptom looks different.
Shows how to fix version Idempotency Fingerprints Safely Across Schema Rollouts. Use it when you hit this exact problem. Skip it when your error message or symptom looks different.
Shows how to fix workflow: release tracking from CI to triage. Use it when you hit this exact problem. Skip it when your error message or symptom looks different.
Every deploy migrates on the direct connection and serves on the pooled one, with the migration rehearsed on a schema-only branch first. Three environments, three strings, zero mixups.
Guide Policy-as-code tool approvals with @ai-sdk/policy-opa: Install: pnpm add @ai-sdk/policy-opa What it gives you: 1. When approval logic outgrows inline functions, @ai-sdk/policy-opa moves it into Open Policy Agent policies. Same wire flow, reviewable rules. Use this when you hit exactly this in this tool. Not for …