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Checks production-bound code for observability, error handling at system boundaries, input validation, graceful degradation, and resource management, scaled to the project's real stakes. Use before declaring a production feature done.
Checks production-bound code for observability, error handling at system boundaries, input validation, graceful degradation, and resource management, scaled to the project's real stakes. Use before declaring a production feature done.
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The gap between "works on my machine" and "works in production" is where incidents live. The goal is to avoid under-engineering the critical paths, not to add every hardening pattern to every feature. Pair it with vibe-scope-guard.
Before running the checklist, establish the stakes and the conventions:
reason; raising a default requires a spec changefile:line and a specific fix that uses existing project conventionsStakes: [e.g., public API, ~10k req/min] · Overall: READY / NEEDS_WORK / NOT_READY
| Category | Status | Gaps |
|---|---|---|
| Observability | ✓/◐/✗/n/a | [count] |
| Error Handling | ✓/◐/✗/n/a | [count] |
| Input Validation | ✓/◐/✗/n/a | [count] |
| Graceful Degradation | ✓/◐/✗/n/a | [count] |
| Resource Management | ✓/◐/✗/n/a | [count] |
| Performance Budgets | ✓/◐/✗/n/a | [count] |
name: vibe-production-mindset description: Checks production-bound code for observability, error handling at system boundaries, input validation, graceful degradation, and resource management, scaled to the project's real stakes. Use before declaring a production feature done. user-invocable: true
--- name: vibe-production-mindset description: Checks production-bound code for observability, error handling at system boundaries, input validation, graceful degradation, and resource management, scaled to the project's real stakes. Use before declaring a production feature done. user-invocable: true --- # vibe-production-mindset The gap between "works on my machine" and "works in production" is where incidents live. The goal is to avoid under-engineering the critical paths, not to add every hardening pattern to every feature. Pair it with `vibe-scope-guard`. ## When to Use This Skill - Implementing API endpoints, data processing, or user-facing features that will run in production - Before declaring a production feature "done" - When the user cares about production quality ## When NOT to Use This Skill - Prototypes or spikes explicitly marked as throwaway - Internal scripts that run once - Test code (different quality criteria) - When the user says "just get it working" ## Calibrate First Before running the checklist, establish the stakes and the conventions: - **What already exists?** Use the project's existing logger, metrics, retry, and validation libraries. Don't introduce a second one. - **What's the real scale and blast radius?** An internal admin tool and a public payments API need different answers. - Only flag an item if it applies at *this* project's scale. A missing circuit breaker is not a gap in a service with one dependency and ten users. ## The Checklist ### 1. Observability - [ ] Logs at key decision points use the project's structured logger - [ ] Request/correlation IDs are propagated, if the project already uses them - [ ] Metrics for key operations, if the project has a metrics pipeline ### 2. Error Handling at System Boundaries - [ ] External calls (HTTP, DB, queues) have timeouts - [ ] Retries with backoff where the operation is idempotent - [ ] Specific handling for expected failures (not found, permission denied, conflict) - [ ] Errors carry enough context to debug, and no secrets ### 3. Input Validation - [ ] External input is validated before processing - [ ] Size limits on strings, arrays, and uploads - [ ] Parameterized queries and output encoding (injection, XSS) - [ ] Authentication before authorization, and authorization on every access path ### 4. Graceful Degradation (only where dependencies justify it) - [ ] Defined behavior when a dependency is down - [ ] Graceful shutdown (drain in-flight work) - [ ] Health check, if the deploy target uses one ### 5. Resource Management - [ ] Connections, files, and handles are closed or returned to the pool - [ ] Goroutines, threads, and tasks have bounded lifetimes - [ ] No unbounded in-memory growth (caches, queues, buffers) ### 6. Performance Budgets (when performance is a requirement) - [ ] Budgets are targets from the spec (published thresholds, competitor medians), not today's measurement plus a margin - [ ] Named profiles: a constrained one for CI (slow link, throttled CPU) and a typical target device - [ ] Per-route or per-endpoint budgets: payload sizes (JS, CSS, HTML, fonts, total) and timings (e.g., LCP, CLS, TBT, p95 latency) - [ ] Overrides carry a written `reason`; raising a default requires a spec change - [ ] Enforced in CI; a failing budget is fixed in code, never raised to pass - [ ] Performance changes report "no budgets loosened", and call out mechanical key renames so they aren't mistaken for loosening ## Steps 1. **Calibrate** (above) 2. **Read the implementation** 3. **Run the checklist**, skipping items that don't apply 4. **Flag gaps** with `file:line` and a specific fix that uses existing project conventions ## Output Format ### Production Readiness: [Feature Name] **Stakes**: [e.g., public API, ~10k req/min] · **Overall**: READY / NEEDS_WORK / NOT_READY | Category | Status | Gaps | |----------|--------|------| | Observability | ✓/◐/✗/n/a | [count] | | Error Handling | ✓/◐/✗/n/a | [count] | | Input Validation | ✓/◐/✗/n/a | [count] | | Graceful Degradation | ✓/◐/✗/n/a | [count] | | Resource Management | ✓/◐/✗/n/a | [count] | | Performance Budgets | ✓/◐/✗/n/a | [count] | ### Critical Gaps 1. [gap with file:line and the fix]
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