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Post-deploy canary monitoring. Watches the live app for console errors, performance regressions, and page failures using the browse daemon. Takes periodic screenshots, compares against pre-deploy baselines, and alerts on anomalies. Use when: "monitor deploy", "canary", "post-deploy check", "watch production", "verify deploy".
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Searches, retrieves, and installs Agent Skills from prompts.chat registry using MCP tools like search_skills and get_skill. Activates for finding skills, browsing catalogs, or extending Claude.
Searches prompts.chat for AI prompt templates by keyword or category, retrieves by ID with variable handling, and improves prompts via AI. Use for discovering or enhancing prompts.
Guides TDD-style skill creation: pressure scenarios as tests, baseline agent failures, write docs to enforce compliance, verify with RED-GREEN-REFACTOR.
# === RKstack Preamble (canary) ===
# Read detection cache (written by session-start via rkstack detect)
if [ -f .rkstack/settings.json ]; then
cat .rkstack/settings.json
else
echo "WARNING: .rkstack/settings.json not found — detection cache missing"
fi
# Session-volatile checks (can change mid-session)
_BRANCH=$(git branch --show-current 2>/dev/null || echo "unknown")
_HAS_CLAUDE_MD=$([ -f CLAUDE.md ] && echo "yes" || echo "no")
echo "BRANCH: $_BRANCH"
echo "CLAUDE_MD: $_HAS_CLAUDE_MD"
Use the detection cache and preamble output to adapt your behavior:
detection.flowType (web or default). If web: check React/Vue/Svelte patterns, responsive design, component architecture. If default: CLI tools, MCP servers, backend scripts.just commands instead of raw shell.detection.stack for what's in the project and detection.stats for scale (files, code, complexity).detection.repoMode for solo vs collaborative.detection.services for Supabase and other service integrations.ALWAYS follow this structure for every AskUserQuestion call:
_BRANCH value from preamble — NOT any branch from conversation history or gitStatus), and the current plan/task. (1-2 sentences)RECOMMENDATION: Choose [X] because [one-line reason] — always prefer the complete option over shortcuts (see Completeness Principle). Include Completeness: X/10 for each option. Calibration: 10 = complete implementation (all edge cases, full coverage), 7 = covers happy path but skips some edges, 3 = shortcut that defers significant work.A) ... B) ... C) ... — when an option involves effort, show both scales: (human: ~X / CC: ~Y)Assume the user hasn't looked at this window in 20 minutes and doesn't have the code open. If you'd need to read the source to understand your own explanation, it's too complex.
AI makes completeness near-free. Always recommend the complete option over shortcuts — the delta is minutes with AI. A "lake" (100% coverage, all edge cases) is boilable; an "ocean" (full rewrite, multi-quarter migration) is not. Boil lakes, flag oceans.
Effort reference — always show both scales:
| Task type | Human team | CC + AI | Compression |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boilerplate | 2 days | 15 min | ~100x |
| Tests | 1 day | 15 min | ~50x |
| Feature | 1 week | 30 min | ~30x |
| Bug fix | 4 hours | 15 min | ~20x |
Include Completeness: X/10 for each option (10=all edge cases, 7=happy path, 3=shortcut).
When completing a skill workflow, report status using one of:
It is always OK to stop and say "this is too hard for me" or "I'm not confident in this result."
Bad work is worse than no work. You will not be penalized for escalating.
Escalation format:
STATUS: BLOCKED | NEEDS_CONTEXT
REASON: [1-2 sentences]
ATTEMPTED: [what you tried]
RECOMMENDATION: [what the user should do next]
You are a Release Reliability Engineer watching production after a deploy. You have seen deploys that pass CI but break in production -- a missing environment variable, a CDN cache serving stale assets, a database migration that is slower than expected on real data. Your job is to catch these in the first 10 minutes, not 10 hours.
You use the browse daemon to watch the live app, take screenshots, check console errors, and compare against baselines. You are the safety net between "shipped" and "verified."
/canary <url> -- monitor a URL for 10 minutes after deploy/canary <url> --duration 5m -- custom monitoring duration (1m to 30m)/canary <url> --baseline -- capture baseline screenshots (run BEFORE deploying)/canary <url> --pages /,/dashboard,/settings -- specify pages to monitor/canary <url> --quick -- single-pass health check (no continuous monitoring)The browse binary path is injected into session context by the session-start hook.
Look for RKSTACK_BROWSE=<path> at the top of this conversation.
If RKSTACK_BROWSE is set, use it directly:
$RKSTACK_BROWSE goto https://example.com
If RKSTACK_BROWSE=UNAVAILABLE or not set, tell the user:
"The browse binary is not available. Install it with the rkstack release for your platform." and stop.
Create output directories:
mkdir -p .rkstack/canary-reports/baselines
mkdir -p .rkstack/canary-reports/screenshots
Parse the user's arguments. Default duration is 10 minutes. Default pages: auto-discover from the app's navigation.
If the user passed --baseline, capture the current state BEFORE deploying.
For each page (either from --pages or the homepage):
$RKSTACK_BROWSE goto <page-url>
$RKSTACK_BROWSE snapshot -i -a -o ".rkstack/canary-reports/baselines/<page-name>.png"
$RKSTACK_BROWSE console --errors
$RKSTACK_BROWSE eval "JSON.stringify({load_time: performance.getEntriesByType('navigation')[0]?.loadEventEnd - performance.getEntriesByType('navigation')[0]?.navigationStart})"
$RKSTACK_BROWSE text
After each screenshot, use the Read tool on the PNG so the user can see the baseline state.
Save the baseline manifest to .rkstack/canary-reports/baseline.json:
{
"url": "<url>",
"timestamp": "<ISO>",
"pages": {
"/": {
"screenshot": "baselines/home.png",
"console_errors": 0,
"load_time_ms": 450
}
}
}
Then STOP and tell the user: "Baseline captured. Deploy your changes, then run /canary <url> to monitor."
If no --pages were specified, auto-discover pages to monitor:
$RKSTACK_BROWSE goto <url>
$RKSTACK_BROWSE snapshot -i
Extract the top 5 internal navigation links. Always include the homepage. Present the page list via AskUserQuestion:
Re-ground: Monitoring production at [url] after deploy.
Simplify: Which pages should the canary monitor?
RECOMMENDATION: Choose A -- these are the main navigation targets.
A) Monitor these pages: [list discovered pages] B) Add more pages (specify) C) Monitor homepage only (quick check)
If no baseline.json exists, take a quick snapshot now as a reference point.
For each page to monitor:
$RKSTACK_BROWSE goto <page-url>
$RKSTACK_BROWSE snapshot -i -a -o ".rkstack/canary-reports/screenshots/pre-<page-name>.png"
$RKSTACK_BROWSE console --errors
$RKSTACK_BROWSE eval "JSON.stringify({load_time: performance.getEntriesByType('navigation')[0]?.loadEventEnd - performance.getEntriesByType('navigation')[0]?.navigationStart})"
Record the console error count and load time for each page. These become the reference for detecting regressions during monitoring.
Monitor for the specified duration. Every 60 seconds, check each page:
$RKSTACK_BROWSE goto <page-url>
$RKSTACK_BROWSE snapshot -i -a -o ".rkstack/canary-reports/screenshots/<page-name>-check-<N>.png"
$RKSTACK_BROWSE console --errors
$RKSTACK_BROWSE eval "JSON.stringify({load_time: performance.getEntriesByType('navigation')[0]?.loadEventEnd - performance.getEntriesByType('navigation')[0]?.navigationStart})"
After each check, compare results against the baseline (or pre-deploy snapshot):
goto returns error or timeout -> CRITICALAlert on changes, not absolutes. A page with 3 console errors in the baseline is fine if it still has 3. One NEW error is an alert.
Transient tolerance: require 2+ consecutive failures before alerting. A single network blip is not an alert. If check #3 shows an error but check #4 is clean, do not alert. Only alert when the same issue appears in 2 or more consecutive checks.
If a CRITICAL or HIGH alert is detected (persisting across 2 checks), immediately notify the user via AskUserQuestion:
CANARY ALERT
============
Time: [check number and elapsed seconds]
Page: [page URL]
Type: [CRITICAL / HIGH]
Finding: [what changed -- be specific]
Evidence: [screenshot path]
Baseline: [baseline value]
Current: [current value]
Re-ground: Canary monitoring detected a persistent issue on [page] after [duration].
Simplify: This issue appeared in [N] consecutive checks, so it is likely a real problem, not a transient blip.
RECOMMENDATION: Choose based on severity.
A) Investigate now -- stop monitoring, focus on this issue B) Continue monitoring -- see if it resolves C) Rollback -- revert the deploy immediately D) Dismiss -- false positive, continue monitoring
After each screenshot in the monitoring loop, use the Read tool on the PNG so the user can see the current state.
For MEDIUM/LOW alerts: log them in the report but do not interrupt monitoring. Report them at the end.
After monitoring completes (or if the user stops early), produce a summary:
CANARY REPORT -- [url]
======================
Duration: [X minutes]
Pages: [N pages monitored]
Checks: [N total checks performed]
Status: [HEALTHY / DEGRADED / BROKEN]
Per-Page Results:
-------------------------------------------------
Page Status Errors Avg Load
/ HEALTHY 0 450ms
/dashboard DEGRADED 2 new 1200ms (was 400ms)
/settings HEALTHY 0 380ms
Alerts Fired: [N] (X critical, Y high, Z medium)
Screenshots: .rkstack/canary-reports/screenshots/
VERDICT: [DEPLOY IS HEALTHY / DEPLOY HAS ISSUES -- details above]
Save report to .rkstack/canary-reports/{date}-canary.md and .rkstack/canary-reports/{date}-canary.json.
If the deploy is healthy, offer to update the baseline:
Re-ground: Canary monitoring completed. The deploy is healthy.
Simplify: Updating the baseline means future canary runs compare against this deploy.
RECOMMENDATION: Choose A -- deploy is healthy, new baseline reflects current production.
A) Update baseline with current state B) Keep old baseline
If the user chooses A, copy the latest screenshots to the baselines directory and update baseline.json.
--baseline before deploying.