Build · Preview · Promote
Prompt-deploy works until two people ship. This checklist puts install, test, and promote on a pipeline — with preview environments and a boring path to prod. Keep the app. Stop shipping from a chat box.
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Review methodologyIn plain words
CI/CD for vibe apps means install and checks run on a clean runner, previews spin from branches, and prod promote is a deliberate step — not a chat command. You keep the code you built. Deploys get boring on purpose.
Where chat-deploy breaks
Builder previews hide missing lockfiles and secrets. Pipelines surface them early.
Pin lockfiles. Fail CI if install needs a warm chat.
Reviewers need a URL that is not prod.
Move promote to the pipeline with approvals.
Handoff owns the remote and second engineer. CI owns the train.
The boring train
Chat is for edits. The train ships.
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Clean runner only.
02
Secrets scoped. Not prod data.
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Named promoters.
04
Time-box the old path.
How to
Runner first, promote last.
Step 01
Document runtime versions.
Step 02
Fail on clean-runner gaps.
Step 03
Separate secrets from prod.
Step 04
Prior artifact retained.
Step 05
After one successful train promote.
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Preview often uses warm builder context and shared secrets. CI proves a stranger runner can install and build. That is what survives when the chat session is gone.
Install from lockfiles, basic tests or smoke, build artifact, and a gated promote to prod. Fancy multi-region comes later.
Pipeline previews come from your org Git branches with scoped secrets. Tool sandboxes often share demo data and builder logins — fine for prompts, not for review parity.
When the candidate passed checks, smoke on the preview, and an approval from a named promoter — not when a prompt felt done.
Bring the remote and current promote steps. We make deploys boring on purpose.
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