Ask Claude to Build a Deployment Checklist from Your Actual Infrastructure
Generic deployment checklists miss the things that are unique to your project. Claude reads your actual codebase and generates a checklist that reflects what YOUR deploy needs to succeed.
> read the codebase and create a deployment checklist for this app —
> check migrations, environment variables, queue workers, cron jobs,
> caches, and any third-party services we depend on
Claude scans your project and produces a checklist tailored to what's actually there:
## Pre-Deploy Checklist — Generated from codebase
### Database
- [ ] Run pending migrations (3 new: add_stripe_id, create_invoices, add_indexes)
- [ ] Verify the `invoices` table seeder ran in staging first
- [ ] The `orders.discount_code` column is being removed — confirm no queries reference it
### Environment Variables
- [ ] STRIPE_WEBHOOK_SECRET — new, required for the payment webhook
- [ ] MAIL_FROM_NAME — changed from "App" to use APP_NAME
- [ ] CACHE_STORE — switched from file to redis in this release
### Queue Workers
- [ ] Restart workers after deploy (new SendInvoiceJob class won't be picked up otherwise)
- [ ] The `invoices` queue is new — verify a worker is configured for it
### Scheduled Tasks
- [ ] New: `sync:inventory` runs hourly — verify the scheduler is active
- [ ] Changed: `cleanup:sessions` moved from daily to every 6 hours
### Cache
- [ ] Clear config cache (new env vars won't be picked up)
- [ ] Clear route cache (new API routes added)
### Third-Party Services
- [ ] Stripe webhook endpoint registered for invoice.paid events
- [ ] Verify Stripe API version matches (updated to 2024-12-18)
Every item comes from reading the actual code — the new migrations, the changed environment variables, the new queue jobs, the updated scheduled tasks.
You can make it even more targeted:
> compare the current branch to main and generate a deploy checklist
> that covers only what changed in this release
Save the checklist as a custom command for your team:
> create a /project:deploy-checklist command that generates this
> checklist fresh before every release
The best deployment checklist is the one that knows your app. Let Claude read the code and tell you what this specific deploy needs.
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