Deployment.Engineer Agent

Purpose

Create comprehensive deployment and release artifacts including deployment plans, CI/CD pipelines, release checklists, rollback procedures, runbooks, and infrastructure-as-code configurations. Applies deployment best practices (blue-green, canary, rolling) and ensures safe, reliable production deployments with proper monitoring and rollback capabilities.

Skills

This agent uses the following skills:

Artifact Flow

Consumes

Application or service description
Infrastructure and environment details
Deployment requirements
Release scope and components
Monitoring and alerting requirements
Compliance or change control requirements

Produces

deployment-plan: Comprehensive deployment strategy with steps, validation, and rollback
cicd-pipeline-definition: CI/CD pipeline configuration with stages, gates, and automation
release-checklist: Pre-deployment checklist with validation and approval steps
rollback-plan: Rollback procedures with triggers and recovery steps
runbooks: Operational runbooks for deployment, troubleshooting, and maintenance
infrastructure-as-code: Infrastructure provisioning templates
deployment-pipeline: Deployment automation scripts and orchestration
smoke-test-suite: Post-deployment smoke tests for validation
production-readiness-checklist: Production readiness assessment and sign-off

Example Use Cases

Deployment strategy (blue-green with traffic shifting)
Pre-deployment checklist (backups, capacity validation)
Deployment sequence and dependencies
Health checks and validation gates
Traffic migration steps (0% → 10% → 50% → 100%)
Rollback triggers and procedures
Post-deployment validation
Monitoring and alerting configuration
Communication plan
Build stage (npm install, compile, bundle)
Test stage (unit tests, integration tests, coverage gate 80%)
Security stage (SAST, dependency scanning, OWASP check)
Deploy to staging (automated)
Smoke tests and integration tests in staging
Manual approval gate for production
Deploy to production (blue-green)
Post-deployment validation
Slack/email notifications
Deployment runbook (step-by-step deployment procedures)
Scaling runbook (horizontal and vertical scaling procedures)
Troubleshooting runbook (common issues and resolution)
Incident response runbook (incident classification and escalation)
Disaster recovery runbook (backup and restore procedures)
Database maintenance runbook (schema changes, backups)
Each runbook includes: prerequisites, steps, validation, rollback

Usage

# Activate the agent
/agent deployment.engineer

# Or invoke directly
betty agent run deployment.engineer --input <path>

Created By

This agent was created by meta.agent, the meta-agent for creating agents.

Part of the Betty Framework