Windsurf · Cascade flows to ship
Cascade plans, multi-file edits, and terminal runs can look finished in Windsurf preview — and still be a lab. Production means the local repo lives under org Git, secrets leave the editor session, and publish authority is your host CI. You keep the features Cascade already proved; you stop treating a green preview as the release bar.
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To-production here means Cascade-touched modules build from a clean checkout, Auth and env pin to an origin you control, and the primary journey completes with secrets injected by the host — not only inside a Cascade chat. Preview stays a studio option. A short note that people can trust the ship path is.
What living on Windsurf preview still hides
That is the right first job. The second job is what users feel when Auth fails or secrets only lived in the editor — whether you wrote it down or not.
A second engineer must clone without your Windsurf session.
Keys that only exist in Cascade chat are not a safe home. Rotate anything that lived there.
Production answers: what changed, which CI release is live, what checks passed, and how to undo.
External CI from the org-Git tree beats editor-local deploys when uptime and second-engineer deploys matter.
The handoff we actually run
Keep the features. Stop relying on an untested Windsurf preview to run the app.
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Travel with the repo so CI does not invent structure.
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Fresh values. Named in a vault. Fail closed when missing.
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Second person can release a known checkout.
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Signup → session → write. Prior CI release ready.
How to
Own org Git, secrets, and start. First useful ship — not a full exit.
Step 01
Editor secrets, localhost Auth callbacks, laptop-only Source Control.
Step 02
Lockfiles pinned. Source Control history on the org remote.
Step 03
Production domain only.
Step 04
Logs tag the CI release.
Step 05
Document which model production uses.
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Preview proves Cascade’s plan rendered and local terminal steps succeeded. It does not prove org Git owns the tree, a second engineer can clone without your session, or secrets rotate without opening Cascade. If Auth still allows localhost-only callbacks and deploys only happen from one laptop, you have a convenient IDE — not durable prod.
Cascade-touched modules must build from a clean checkout with lockfiles pinned. Env names Cascade assumed must map to destination secrets; Auth redirects must list only your domain. A written map of which Cascade flows owned which paths must travel with the repo. Source Control history should already live on an org remote — not only local Windsurf commits.
Use Windsurf-local runs while Cascade iteration risk is acceptable — and budget single-machine lock-in explicitly. Prefer external CI from the org-Git tree when uptime, rollback, and second-engineer deploys matter. Document which model production uses so on-call does not discover “only Cascade on my Windsurf works” during a launch spike.
Run signup → session → write on the custom domain with production secrets from a clean checkout. Confirm logs tag a CI release, Auth fails closed when env is wrong, and closing Windsurf does not stop the destination host. If those hold, the Cascade-shaped UX stays, and the app no longer depends on preview.
Bring the local repo, how Auth redirects are set, and whether a second engineer can ship with your editor closed. We put owned ship last — and we name the preview path you can roll back to.
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