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deploy-pilot

Manages the full deploy cycle — build validation, GitHub push, Vercel deployment, and health checks.

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by @guifav

Setup & Installation

openclaw skills install @guifav/deploy-pilot

Or with the ClawHub CLI, for registry-managed skill folders outside a full OpenClaw workspace:

npx clawhub install deploy-pilot

Version History

v0.1.1Feb 18, 2026 - Version note by skill developer:

- Initial release. - Provides end-to-end automated deployment for Next.js apps on Vercel via GitHub. - Enforces a mandatory planning protocol and detailed pre-deploy checklist. - Supports both preview and production deployment flows with health checks and rollback guidance. - Includes best practices for environment variables, branch strategy, post-deploy monitoring, and GitHub integration.

What This Skill Does

Handles the full deploy lifecycle for Next.js applications: pre-deploy validation, GitHub push, Vercel deployment monitoring, and post-deploy health checks. Covers preview and production flows, environment variable management, rollbacks, and domain configuration. Enforces a mandatory planning phase before any push.

The mandatory planning protocol catches missing env vars, failing builds, and backward-incompatible migrations before they reach production, rather than discovering them mid-deploy.

When to use it

  • Deploying a feature branch to a Vercel preview URL for review
  • Merging and releasing to production with automated pre-deploy checks
  • Rolling back a broken production deployment to the last known-good version
  • Syncing missing environment variables to Vercel before a release
  • Checking CI status on a PR and merging with a squash commit

Example Workflow

Here's how your AI assistant might use this skill in practice.

INPUT

User asks: Deploy feat/checkout-redesign to production

AGENT
  1. 1Check git status and log to understand what has changed since the last deploy
  2. 2Run TypeScript compilation, linting, tests, and a local build to confirm all pass
  3. 3Summarize what will be deployed including any migrations or new env vars required
  4. 4Merge the feature branch into main with a squash commit and push to origin
  5. 5Monitor Vercel deployment status, hit the health endpoint, and report the deployment URL and results
OUTPUT

Production deployment URL confirmed healthy, list of shipped changes, and any issues encountered during post-deploy verification

Requirements

Accounts, API keys, or tools you or your AI assistant may need to set up while using this skill.

VERCEL_TOKEN environment variableVercel accountGitHub account