Land and Deploy

Complete landing pipeline: merge the PR, wait for CI, verify the deployment, run a health check.

Picks up where /ship left off. /ship creates the PR. This command merges it and verifies production.

Non-interactive by default. The user said "land it", so land it. Stop only for the critical readiness gate and hard blockers.

Instructions

Step 1: Pre-flight

# Verify GitHub CLI is authenticated
gh auth status

# Detect PR from current branch (or use argument if provided)
gh pr view --json number,state,title,url,mergeStateStatus,mergeable,baseRefName,headRefName

Stop conditions:

• GitHub CLI not authenticated → "Run gh auth login first"
• No PR exists → "No PR found for this branch. Run /ship first."
• PR already merged → "PR is already merged."
• PR is closed → "PR is closed. Reopen it first."

Step 2: CI Status Check

# Check current CI status
gh pr checks --json name,state,status,conclusion

# Check for merge conflicts
gh pr view --json mergeable -q .mergeable

Stop conditions:

• Required checks FAILING → show failing checks, stop
• mergeable is CONFLICTING → "PR has merge conflicts. Resolve them and push before landing."
• Required checks PENDING → proceed to Step 3 (wait for CI)
• All checks passing → skip to Step 3.5 (readiness gate)

Step 3: Wait for CI (if pending)

# Watch CI checks with 15-minute timeout
gh pr checks --watch --fail-fast

• CI passes → continue to Step 3.5
• CI fails → stop, show failures
• Timeout (15 min) → "CI has been running for 15 minutes. Investigate manually."

Record CI wait duration for the deploy report.

Step 3.5: Pre-Merge Readiness Gate

This is the one critical confirmation before an irreversible merge. Collect all evidence, then get explicit approval.

Review staleness check

# How many commits since the last review in this branch?
git log --oneline $(git merge-base HEAD origin/main)..HEAD | wc -l

# What changed after any review was done?
git log --oneline -10

Staleness thresholds:

• 0–3 commits since review → CURRENT (green)
• 4+ commits, touching code → STALE (yellow, review may not reflect current code)
• No review found → NOT RUN (yellow)

Test results

# Run tests now (fast tests only)
npm test 2>/dev/null || pnpm test 2>/dev/null || \
  pytest --tb=short -q 2>/dev/null || \
  go test ./... 2>/dev/null

# Check exit code
echo "Tests exit code: $?"

Failing tests = BLOCKER. Cannot merge with failing tests.

Documentation check

# Were CHANGELOG and docs updated on this branch?
git diff --name-only $(git merge-base HEAD origin/main)...HEAD -- \
  README.md CHANGELOG.md ARCHITECTURE.md CONTRIBUTING.md CLAUDE.md VERSION

If CHANGELOG.md and VERSION were NOT modified and the diff includes new features → WARNING.

Readiness report

Present a summary and ask for explicit confirmation:

╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║              PRE-MERGE READINESS REPORT                  ║
╠══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╣
║  PR: #NNN: [title]                                       ║
║  Branch: feature-branch → main                           ║
║                                                          ║
║  REVIEWS                                                 ║
║    Review:     CURRENT / STALE (N commits) / NOT RUN     ║
║                                                          ║
║  TESTS                                                   ║
║    Fast tests: PASS / FAIL (blocker)                     ║
║                                                          ║
║  DOCUMENTATION                                           ║
║    CHANGELOG:  Updated / NOT UPDATED (warning)           ║
║    VERSION:    Bumped / NOT BUMPED (warning)             ║
║                                                          ║
║  WARNINGS: N  |  BLOCKERS: N                             ║
╚══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝

Options:
  A) Merge (all checks green)
  B) Don't merge yet, address warnings first
  C) Merge anyway (I understand the risks)

If the user chooses B, list exactly what needs to be done and stop.

Step 4: Merge the PR

# Merge (auto-detect method from repo settings, delete branch after)
gh pr merge --auto --delete-branch

# Fallback if auto-merge is not enabled
# gh pr merge --squash --delete-branch

Record the merge commit SHA and timestamp.

If merge fails with permission error → "You don't have merge permissions. Ask a maintainer to merge."

If merge queue is active, poll until merged:

# Poll every 30 seconds, timeout after 30 minutes
gh pr view --json state -q .state

Step 5: Platform Detection

Detect how this project deploys so we know what to verify.

# Detect platform from config files
[ -f fly.toml ]         && echo "PLATFORM: fly"
[ -f render.yaml ]      && echo "PLATFORM: render"
[ -f vercel.json ] || [ -d .vercel ] && echo "PLATFORM: vercel"
[ -f netlify.toml ]     && echo "PLATFORM: netlify"
[ -f Procfile ]         && echo "PLATFORM: heroku"
[ -f railway.toml ]     && echo "PLATFORM: railway"

# Detect GitHub Actions deploy workflows
for f in .github/workflows/*.yml .github/workflows/*.yaml; do
  [ -f "$f" ] && grep -qiE "deploy|release|production|cd" "$f" 2>/dev/null && echo "DEPLOY_WORKFLOW: $f"
done

# Classify diff scope (frontend / backend / docs / config)
git diff --name-only $(git merge-base HEAD~1 origin/main)...HEAD | \
  awk '{
    if (/\.(css|scss|tsx|jsx|html|svg)$/ || /components|pages|public\//) f=1;
    if (/api\/|server\/|backend\/|\.(go|py|rb|java)$/) b=1;
    if (/README|CHANGELOG|docs\/|\.(md)$/) d=1;
    if (/\.env|config\/|\.toml$|\.yaml$/) c=1;
  } END {
    if (f) print "SCOPE_FRONTEND=true";
    if (b) print "SCOPE_BACKEND=true";
    if (d) print "SCOPE_DOCS=true";
    if (c) print "SCOPE_CONFIG=true";
  }'

Decision tree:

• Docs-only diff → skip deploy verification, go to Step 8
• No deploy workflow + no URL provided → ask user if this project has a web deploy
• Otherwise → proceed to Step 6

Step 6: Wait for Deploy

GitHub Actions deploy workflow:

# Find the run triggered by the merge commit
gh run list --branch main --limit 10 --json databaseId,headSha,status,conclusion,workflowName

# Poll until complete (30s interval, 20 min timeout)
gh run view <run-id> --json status,conclusion

Platform-specific strategies:

If deploy fails → offer to investigate logs or create a revert commit.

Record deploy duration for the report.

Step 7: Production Health Check

Use diff scope (from Step 5) to determine check depth:

Full health check sequence:

# 1. Page loads (200 status)
curl -sf -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" "${PROD_URL}" 2>/dev/null

# 2. Response time check
curl -sf -o /dev/null -w "%{time_total}" "${PROD_URL}" 2>/dev/null

# 3. Health endpoint (if exists)
curl -sf "${PROD_URL}/health" 2>/dev/null || \
curl -sf "${PROD_URL}/api/health" 2>/dev/null

# 4. Content check: page is not blank
curl -sf "${PROD_URL}" 2>/dev/null | wc -c

Pass criteria:

• HTTP 200 status
• Response time under 10 seconds
• Page has content (>500 bytes)
• Health endpoint returns 200 (if configured)

If any check fails → offer to revert:

Post-deploy health check detected issues:
  [finding, specific]

Options:
  A) Investigate (this may be normal: cache warming, eventual consistency)
  B) Rollback (revert the merge commit)
  C) Continue (I'll monitor manually)

Step 8: Revert (if needed)

# Fetch the latest base branch
git fetch origin main

# Create a revert commit
git checkout main
git revert <merge-commit-sha> --no-edit
git push origin main

If conflicts → "Revert has conflicts. Run git revert <sha> manually to resolve."
If branch protections → "Create a revert PR: gh pr create --title 'revert: <title>'"

Step 9: Deploy Report

LAND & DEPLOY REPORT
═════════════════════════════════════════
PR:           #NNN: [title]
Branch:       feature-branch → main
Merged:       [timestamp] (squash / merge)
Merge SHA:    [short SHA]

Timing:
  CI wait:    [Xm Ys / skipped]
  Deploy:     [Xm Ys / no workflow detected]
  Health:     [Xs / skipped]
  Total:      [end-to-end duration]

CI:           PASSED / FAILED / SKIPPED
Deploy:       PASSED / FAILED / NO WORKFLOW
Production:   HEALTHY / DEGRADED / SKIPPED / REVERTED
  Status:     [HTTP status code]
  Response:   [Xms]

VERDICT: DEPLOYED AND VERIFIED / DEPLOYED (UNVERIFIED) / REVERTED
═════════════════════════════════════════

Step 10: Follow-up Suggestions

After the deploy report, suggest relevant next steps:

• If production URL was verified: "Run /canary <url> for extended 10-minute monitoring."
• If new features were shipped: "Run /document-release to update project docs."

Important Rules

• Never force push. Use gh pr merge (it's safe).
• Never skip CI. Failing checks = stop.
• Single-pass production check. For extended monitoring, use /canary.
• Revert is always an option. At every failure point, offer revert as an escape hatch.
• Delete the feature branch after merge (via --delete-branch).
• The goal: user types /land-and-deploy, next thing they see is the deploy report.

Usage

/land-and-deploy                                    # Auto-detect PR, no canary URL
/land-and-deploy https://app.example.com            # Auto-detect PR + verify this URL
/land-and-deploy 123                                # Specific PR number
/land-and-deploy 123 https://app.example.com        # PR number + verification URL

Related Commands

• /ship: run this first to create the PR
• /canary: extended post-deploy monitoring loop
• /review-pr: review the PR before landing

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