What problem does it solve?
This Skill solves the problem of shipping urgent bug fixes safely and traceably when normal sprint workflows are too slow.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Emergency triage and gating: Categorizes severity (S1/S2) and stops immediately for lower-severity issues so you don’t misuse the hotfix process.
- Controlled change management: Creates a structured hotfix record, proposes writing it to production hotfixes, and (when git is available) creates a dedicated hotfix branch.
- Approval-driven deployment: Collects parallel sign-offs (lead-programmer, qa-tester, producer) and runs an explicit QA re-entry gate to decide between smoke check and targeted team QA before deploy.
- Rollback and verification: Forces a rollback plan, updates the original bug status, deploys only after gates pass, and verifies with bug-report checks plus a post-incident review.
Quick Start
Request a hotfix by telling the team: "/hotfix [bug-id or description]" and follow the prompts to document the record, approvals, QA gate, and deployment steps.