forge-deploy

Forge Deploy

Trigger a deployment on a Forge site. Always preview before deploying. A wrong deploy targets the wrong site — preview eliminates that risk.

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Surface-then-approve flow

Step 1 — Preview (read-only, never mutates)

php ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/php/forge.php preview-deploy <server> <site>

Resolves <server> and <site> to their canonical SDK records and prints:

--- Deploy preview (no action taken) ---
Server: prod-web-01 (ID: 12345, IP: 1.2.3.4)
Site:   myapp.com (ID: 67890)

Exit 0. No network write. The hook does not gate this command.

Step 2 — Relay canonical target to operator

Show the canonical server name, IP, site name, and IDs. Ask for explicit approval.

"Deploy to myapp.com on prod-web-01 (1.2.3.4)? Reply 'yes' to confirm or 'no' to cancel."

Never auto-confirm. If the operator says anything other than an unambiguous affirmative, cancel.

Step 3 — On approval only: fire the deployment

php ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/php/forge.php deploy <server> <site> --confirm

This triggers the deployment and returns immediately (no blocking wait):

Deployment started: deploy-id=991 server-id=12345 site-id=67890 status=queued
Watch with: forge.php deploy-status 12345 67890 991

Capture the canonical deploy-id, server-id, and site-id — Step 4 needs them.

Step 4 — Watch via the hermit watch registry (non-blocking)

Do not poll in a foreground Bash call: a real deploy can outlast the Bash tool timeout, which would kill the wait and skip the incident. Arm a hermit watch instead — it runs detached, notifies you on each status change and on the terminal state at zero token cost while quiet, and is tracked in monitors.runtime.json (visible via /claude-code-hermit:watch status, cancellable via /claude-code-hermit:watch stop, and cleaned up at session-close).

Requires an active hermit session — /claude-code-hermit:watch refuses without one. If there is no session, ask the operator to run /claude-code-hermit:session first (or, as a fallback, run deploy-status manually).

Resolve ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} to its absolute path now (at skill-execution time): the variable is NOT available inside the watch subprocess. Then arm the watch by invoking /claude-code-hermit:watch with this command (substitute the absolute path and the three IDs):

prev=""; n=0
while [ "$n" -lt 180 ]; do
  st=$(php /ABS/php/forge.php deploy-status <server-id> <site-id> <deploy-id> 2>/dev/null || true)
  [ -n "$st" ] && [ "$st" != "$prev" ] && echo "deploy <deploy-id>: $st"
  case "$st" in
    finished) echo "TERMINAL deploy=<deploy-id> server-id=<server-id> site-id=<site-id> status=finished"; exit 0;;
    failed|failed-build|cancelled) echo "TERMINAL deploy=<deploy-id> server-id=<server-id> site-id=<site-id> status=$st"; exit 0;;
  esac
  prev="$st"; n=$((n+1)); sleep 5
done
echo "TERMINAL deploy=<deploy-id> server-id=<server-id> site-id=<site-id> status=timeout"

The TERMINAL line carries only numeric IDs (never display names) — Forge server names can contain spaces, which would break the space-delimited fields.

/claude-code-hermit:watch registers this as an ad-hoc watch (persistent: true, so the tool's own timeout is ignored). The loop therefore self-caps after ~15 min (180 × 5 s) and emits a timeout terminal line — it never becomes an unbounded watch. It is otherwise quiet, emitting only on status change. On any TERMINAL line the command exits and core clears the registry entry automatically; that line carries everything Step 5 needs.

Step 5 — On the terminal watch event

When the TERMINAL … notification arrives:

• status=finished → tell the operator the deploy succeeded, via the Operator Notification protocol in CLAUDE.md (core resolves the channel; falls back to a push). No artifact.
• status=failed / failed-build / cancelled → (1) fetch the log with deploy-log <server-id> <site-id> <deploy-id> using the numeric IDs from the TERMINAL line, scrub it, and write a deploy-incident artifact (template below); (2) notify the operator of the failure via the Operator Notification protocol in CLAUDE.md, including the incident path.
• status=timeout → the watch hit its ~15 min cap without reaching a terminal state. Notify the operator (via the Operator Notification protocol in CLAUDE.md) that the deploy is still unresolved and point them at deploy-history / deploy-status to follow up. No incident — a timeout is not a confirmed failure.

Scrubbing happens here, in this step — never in the watch command. The watcher only emits metadata, so no raw log line is ever written by the unattended subprocess.

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Deployment history

php ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/php/forge.php deploy-history <server> <site>

Lists recent deployments with ID, status, and commit message.

Fetch a specific deployment log

php ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/php/forge.php deploy-log <server> <site> <deploy-id>

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deploy-incident artifact (written in Step 5 on a failed terminal status)

File: compiled/deploy-incident-<site-name>-<YYYY-MM-DD>.md

Content template:

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title: Deploy incident — <site-name> <YYYY-MM-DD>
created: <ISO timestamp>
type: deploy-incident
tags: [deploy, failure, <site-name>]
---

## Incident

- Site: <site-name> (ID: <site-id>)
- Server: <server-name> (ID: <server-id>, IP: <ip>)
- Deployment ID: <deploy-id>
- Status: <failed|failed-build|cancelled>
- Detected: <timestamp>

## Commit

<commit message, if available>

## Log tail (scrubbed)

<last ~50 lines of the deployment log, **scrubbed of any credentials, env vars, or secrets**>

## Resolution

(fill in after incident is resolved)

Secret hygiene (critical): deployment logs frequently contain env dumps, DB connection strings, and API keys. Never paste raw log content — always scrub before writing. Fetch the log with deploy-log, review it, then excerpt only the error-relevant lines with any credential values redacted ([REDACTED]).

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Notes

• <server> and <site> accept name, hostname, URL hostname, or numeric ID. Ambiguous names are rejected.
• The --confirm flag is checked by both the in-PHP gate and the write-confirm-gate.ts PreToolUse hook. Omitting it always fails — there is no bypass.
• For reading logs without a deploy action, use /laravel-forge-hermit:forge-logs.