Overview
/silver:deploy is the Silver Bullet orchestrator for live production rollouts — promoting already-built artifacts to production or equivalent live environments. It maps to catalog entity WF-SILVER-DEPLOY (specialized type) in the v0.48.3 APO catalog.
Unlike /silver:devops, which covers the full IaC change lifecycle (plan, execute, post-exec gates), deploy assumes implementation is complete and focuses on promotion safety. Blast-radius assessment is always first — no ship gate passes without documented downstream impact and rollback posture.
Standard composition:
For infrastructure changes (Terraform, pipelines, new resources), use /silver:devops. For partial traffic rollouts, use /silver:canary.
WF-SILVER-DEPLOY deliberately omits AF-PLAN and AF-EXECUTE. If the artifact is not built, tested, and reviewed, route to /silver:devops or /silver:feature first.
When to Use
Entry trigger signals for /silver:deploy and deploy:
- Production or live-environment promotion of a reviewed artifact
- "ship to prod" / "roll out" / "go live" with existing build artifacts
- Post-merge deployment when CI has produced deployable output
- Coordinated multi-service rollout requiring blast-radius documentation
Catalog Composition
| Atomic flow | Command | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
AF-BLAST-RADIUS | /silver:blast-radius | Impact map, failure scenarios, rollback plan, change-window risk |
AF-VERIFY | /silver:verify | Pre-promotion verification — smoke tests, health checks, deployment dry-run evidence |
AF-SECURE | /silver:secure | Security and LLM-safety gate before live exposure |
AF-SHIP | /silver:ship | Ship readiness — branch hygiene, completion audit, promotion execution |
Workflow Steps
AF-BLAST-RADIUS — Assess promotion impact
Mandatory first step. Documents affected services, data paths, rollback triggers, and operator runbook. HIGH or CRITICAL ratings require explicit approval evidence before proceeding.
AF-VERIFY — Pre-promotion verification
Confirms the artifact matches the intended release: version pins, config diffs, staging parity, and automated verification results.
AF-SECURE — Security gate
Final security pass — secrets exposure, IAM boundaries, network policy, and supply-chain checks relevant to the live promotion.
AF-SHIP — Execute promotion
Runs ship readiness checks, records completion audit evidence, and executes the promotion with traceable rollback instructions.
Example Invocation
Silver Bullet routes to WF-SILVER-DEPLOY. /silver:blast-radius documents multi-service impact. Verification confirms staging parity. Security gate passes. /silver:ship executes the production promotion with rollback evidence on record.