Hotfix Deploy

What it does

When your agent uses it

• You need to apply an urgent fix directly to a production environment without going through the normal development → QA → prod pipeline
• CI/CD deployment
• Remains a manual human action

Example prompts

• “/hotfix-deploy”

Requirements

• Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Bash, Read, Grep, Edit, Write

Workflow steps

9 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

1. 1Stash Any Uncommitted Work
2. 2Create Hotfix Branch from Production
3. 3Apply the Fix
4. 4Pre-Commit Checklist
5. 5Commit
6. 6Push
7. 7Create PR Targeting the Production Branch
8. 8Restore Stashed Work
9. 9Clean Up Old Branch (Post-Merge)

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit d5d2020. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

  • Bash
  • Read
  • Grep
  • Edit
  • Write

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • git
  • gh

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use git and gh, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Hotfix Deploy loads about 953 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 140 tokens; SKILL.md has 276 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~140

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~953

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

• NotePre-approves every shell command (allowed-tools: Bash)SKILL.md

  allowed-tools: Bash, Read, Grep, Edit, Write

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from hmislk/hmis at commit d5d2020, republished under its GPL-3.0 licence (© hmislk). 276 words, ~953 tokens.

name

hotfix-deploy

description

Full hotfix workflow for deploying urgent fixes to a production branch (coop-prod, ruhunu-prod, southernlanka-prod, etc.). Covers branch creation, fix, commit, push, and PR targeting the production branch. Use when you need to apply an urgent fix directly to a production environment without going through the normal development → QA → prod pipeline. The agent may invoke this on its own judgment to prepare a hotfix (branch, fix, commit, push, PR) — merging the PR, which is what actually triggers CI/CD deployment, remains a manual human action.

allowed-tools

Bash, Read, Grep, Edit, Write

argument-hint

<prod-branch> <description>

git stash

git fetch origin
git checkout -b $1-hotfix origin/$0

git show origin/$0:src/main/resources/META-INF/persistence.xml

git add <changed-files>
git commit -m "fix: <description of fix>

<Explanation of why this was needed and what it fixes.>
References issues #NNNN.

Co-Authored-By: Codex <noreply@openai.com>"

git push origin $1-hotfix

gh pr create \
  --title "fix: <description>" \
  --base $0 \
  --head $1-hotfix \
  --body "..."

git checkout <your-previous-branch>
git stash pop

git branch -d $1-hotfix

© hmislk, GPL-3.0. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in .codex/skills/hotfix-deploy of hmislk/hmis.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit d5d2020