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release-it

Apply Michael T. Nygard-inspired production reliability rules when designing failure handling, timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, observability, or deployment behavior.

Published by ciembor ↗ciembor/agent-rules-books

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Review one integration for failure handling

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Use the release-it skill to review the integration implemented in <path-to-integration-code>. Produce a short risk assessment covering its timeout, retry, circuit-breaker, backpressure, and observability behavior, then recommend the single highest-value improvement. Do not modify or deploy anything.

Required inputs

  • Path to integration code
  • Optional description of the dependency and expected traffic or failure conditions

Suggested template by Skill Leaderboard, grounded in the linked source. Task evidence ↗

SKILL.md

name: release-itdescription: Apply Michael T. Nygard-inspired production reliability rules when designing failure handling, timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, observability, or deployment behavior.license: MIT

Release It! Skill

Use this skill when a task involves production reliability, integration failure, timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, bulkheads, backpressure, observability, capacity, deployment, or operational readiness.

Before making design or code decisions, read and apply release-it.mini.md. Use release-it.md only as a deeper reference when the mini rules are not enough for the current production-reliability tradeoff.