release-it

Checks that your software won't break when things go wrong by adding safety features like timeouts and backup plans.

Installation

Run `npx skills add "https://github.com/ciembor/agent-rules-books" --skill "release-it"` to install this skill, then follow its SKILL.md instructions for my next request.

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SKILL.mdShow the author's original SKILL.md

---
name: release-it
description: 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](release-it.mini.md). Use [release-it.md](release-it.md) only as a deeper reference when the mini rules are not enough for the current production-reliability tradeoff.

Ships with 3 supporting files:

release-it.md
release-it.mini.md
release-it.nano.md

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