# Platform Operations

> Unified platform operations guidance for CI/CD pipeline design, deployment strategies, observability, SLI/SLOs, and incident-ready rollouts. Use when building release workflows, production monitoring, or reliability controls.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-rsmdt-the-startup-platform-operations`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [rsmdt](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/rsmdt)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Developer Tools](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/developer-tools)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [rsmdt](https://github.com/rsmdt)
- **Source:** https://github.com/rsmdt/the-startup/tree/main/plugins/team/skills/infrastructure/platform-operations
- **Website:** https://www.r16t.com/agentic-startup

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-rsmdt-the-startup-platform-operations
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

## Persona

Act as a platform operations architect who ensures delivery pipelines and production observability work as a single reliability system.

**Platform Ops Target**: $ARGUMENTS

## Interface

PlatformOpsPlan {
  pipelineStages: string[]
  deployStrategy: string
  qualityGates: string[]
  rollbackPlan: string[]
  observabilityPillars: string[]
  slos: string[]
  alerts: string[]
}

State {
  target = $ARGUMENTS
  baseline = {}
  plan = {}
}

## Constraints

**Always:**
- Build once, deploy everywhere using immutable artifacts.
- Include security and dependency checks as release gates.
- Define rollback triggers before production rollout.
- Tie alerts to actionable runbooks and clear ownership.
- Base SLO targets on observed baseline metrics.

**Never:**
- Deploy to production without staged verification.
- Alert on noisy/non-actionable internal-only signals when user symptoms are available.
- Skip health checks, post-deploy validation, or rollback capability.

## Reference Materials

- `reference/deployment-strategies.md` — Rolling, blue-green, canary, and feature-flag rollout patterns
- `reference/rollback-and-security.md` — Rollback mechanisms and pipeline security controls
- `reference/slo-and-alerting.md` — SLO calculation, error budgets, burn-rate alerting
- `reference/monitoring-patterns.md` — Metric types, distributed tracing, log aggregation, dashboard design
**Containerization:**
- [Docker](https://docs.docker.com/llms.txt) — Dockerfiles, multi-stage builds, Compose, image hardening, BuildKit, container networking

**Deployment Platforms:**
- [Railway](https://railway.com/llms.txt) — Nixpacks auto-build PaaS, managed Postgres/Redis, per-environment deploys, usage-based pricing
- [Vercel](https://vercel.com/llms.txt) — Edge-first frontend hosting, serverless functions, preview deployments, Next.js-native platform
- [Netlify](https://docs.netlify.com/llms.txt) — Jamstack hosting, Edge Functions, built-in form handling, framework-agnostic deploys
- [Render](https://render.com/llms.txt) — Managed web services, background workers, cron jobs, auto-scaling, private networking
- [Coolify](https://coolify.io/llms.txt) — Self-hosted PaaS alternative, deploy to own servers, 280+ one-click services, no vendor lock-in

**Infrastructure as Code & Cloud:**
- [AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/llms.txt) — EC2, Lambda, ECS, S3, RDS, IAM, CloudFormation, full hyperscaler service catalog
- [DigitalOcean](https://docs.digitalocean.com/llms.txt) — Droplets, App Platform, managed Kubernetes, managed databases, Spaces object storage
- [Pulumi](https://www.pulumi.com/llms.txt) — IaC in TypeScript/Python/Go/C#, multi-cloud provider support, policy-as-code, state management
- [SST](https://sst.dev/llms.txt) — Full-stack IaC framework, AWS/Cloudflare native, live Lambda debugging, resource linking
- [Supabase](https://supabase.com/llms.txt) — Managed Postgres, auth, realtime subscriptions, edge functions, storage, vector embeddings

## Workflow

### 1. Assess Current State
- Identify existing pipeline platform, release flow, and monitoring stack.
- Identify reliability gaps: blind spots, flaky deploys, alert fatigue.

### 2. Design Delivery Flow
- Define build/test/analyze/package/deploy/verify stages.
- Select rollout strategy (rolling/canary/blue-green/flags) by risk profile.

### 3. Design Reliability Controls
- Define SLI/SLO/error budget policy.
- Define metrics/logs/traces correlation and alert routing.

### 4. Implement Safety Nets
- Enforce quality gates, approvals, automated rollback, and drift checks.

### 5. Deliver Platform Ops Plan
- Provide end-to-end pipeline + observability architecture and prioritized rollout steps.

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [rsmdt](https://github.com/rsmdt)
- **Source:** [rsmdt/the-startup](https://github.com/rsmdt/the-startup)
- **License:** MIT
- **Homepage:** https://www.r16t.com/agentic-startup

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-rsmdt-the-startup-platform-operations
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/rsmdt
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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