Classifies a production change into risk tier R0-R3 using falsifiable criteria (data shape changes, irreversible side effects, auth/payment/PII paths, blast radius, traffic share, time to revert), assigns the controls each tier requires, and creates the Release Dossier that every other Ship It Safely skill reads and appends to. Use when someone asks "how risky is this release", "what do we need before we ship this", "does this need a canary", "classify this PR for release", "start a release dossier", or before any deploy that touches a database, money, auth, or more than one service. Do NOT use for writing the migration itself - use zero-downtime-db-migrations instead; for designing the rollout steps, use progressive-rollout; for the final ship decision, use go-no-go-review.
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name: release-risk-classifier
description: Classifies a production change into risk tier R0-R3 using falsifiable criteria (data shape changes, irreversible side effects, auth/payment/PII paths, blast radius, traffic share, time to revert), assigns the controls each tier requires, and creates the Release Dossier that every other Ship It Safely skill reads and appends to. Use when someone asks "how risky is this release", "what do we need before we ship this", "does this need a canary", "classify this PR for release", "start a release dossier", or before any deploy that touches a database, money, auth, or more than one service. Do NOT use for writing the migration itself - use zero-downtime-db-migrations instead; for designing the rollout steps, use progressive-rollout; for the final ship decision, use go-no-go-review.
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