What problem does it solve? When production breaks, the normal feature → preprod → release flow is too slow. This Skill provides a controlled fast path: branch directly from main, apply a minimal fix, open a PR to main, and auto-tag a patch release, while still enforcing an authority check so unapproved sessions cannot ship to production. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Authority gating: Before any work begins, the Skill checks the agent-authority list in .harness-version or requires an explicit in-turn user request, and stands down cleanly if neither holds. - Fast-track release flow: Creates a hotfix/<name> branch from origin/main, writes a .pr-description.md signal file with hotfix: true and the next patch version, then pushes so GitHub Actions opens the PR, tags the release, and back-merges main into preprod. - Lightweight docs discipline: Runs scripts/check-docs.mjs if present, updates docs/SECURITY.md when the fix touches auth or secrets, and records follow-ups (runbook, ADR, regression test) in the PR body. - Use Case: A production outage is traced to a bad input validation check. You invoke the hotfix flow, apply the one-line fix, and the harness ships v1.2.4 to production with Railway redeploying automatically. ## Quick Start Ask the assistant to run the hotfix skill with a short description of the production issue, for example: "/hotfix fix null pointer in checkout handler".
