Production Audit

Production Audit

Use this skill when the user asks whether an application is ready to ship, what could break in production, or what must be fixed before a launch. This is a maintainer-safe rewrite of the stale community production-audit idea: it keeps the useful production-readiness lens and removes unpinned external execution and third-party data sharing.

When to Use

• The user asks "is this production-ready", "what would break in prod", "what did we miss", "audit this repo", or "ready to ship?"
• A feature was merged and needs a pre-deploy or post-merge risk pass.
• A public launch, demo, customer rollout, or investor walkthrough is close.
• CI is green but the user wants production risk, not only test status.
• A deployed URL, release branch, PR, or current checkout is available for evidence gathering.

When Not to Use

• During active implementation when the right lens is line-level secure coding; use security-review first.
• For pure libraries, templates, docs-only repos, or scaffolds unless the user wants packaging/release readiness rather than application readiness.
• When the user asks for a formal compliance audit. This skill is engineering triage, not legal, financial, medical, or regulatory certification.
• When the only available evidence is a product idea with no repo, deployment, CI, or runtime surface.

How It Works

Build the audit from local and user-authorized evidence. Do not run unpinned remote code, upload repository contents to third-party services, or call external scanners unless the user explicitly approves that specific tool and data flow.

Use this order:

1. Establish the release surface.
2. Read recent changes and current branch state.
3. Inspect runtime, auth, data, payment, background-job, AI, and deployment boundaries that actually exist in the repo.
4. Check CI, tests, migrations, environment documentation, and rollback path.
5. Produce a short ship/block recommendation with specific fixes.

Evidence Checklist

Start with cheap, local signals:

git status --short --branch
git log --oneline --decorate -20
git diff --stat origin/main...HEAD

Then inspect the project-specific surface:

• Package scripts, CI workflows, release scripts, Docker files, and deployment manifests.
• API routes, webhooks, auth middleware, background workers, cron jobs, and database migrations.
• Environment variable documentation and startup checks.
• Observability hooks, error reporting, logs, health checks, and dashboards.
• Rollback, seed, migration, and backfill instructions.
• E2E coverage for the user paths that matter most.

If a deployed URL is in scope, use browser or HTTP checks only against that URL and avoid credentialed actions unless the user supplies a safe test account.

Risk Lenses

Security And Auth

• Are public routes, API routes, and admin routes clearly separated?
• Are auth and authorization enforced server-side?
• Are secrets kept out of client bundles, logs, example output, and checked-in files?
• Are rate limits, CSRF protections, CORS policy, and upload validation present where the app needs them?
• Does the AI or agent surface defend against prompt injection, tool abuse, and untrusted content crossing into privileged actions?

Data Integrity

• Do migrations run forward cleanly and have a rollback or recovery plan?
• Are destructive migrations, backfills, and data imports staged safely?
• Do database policies, grants, and service-role boundaries match the app's tenancy model?
• Are retries idempotent for writes, jobs, and webhook handlers?

Payments And Webhooks

• Are webhook signatures verified before parsing trusted payload fields?
• Is each payment, subscription, or fulfillment webhook idempotent?
• Are replay, duplicate delivery, and out-of-order delivery handled?
• Are test-mode and live-mode credentials separated?