App Deployment

This skill orchestrates the installed Rayfin CLI lifecycle. It does not recreate the validation or deployment implementation.

Before a remote write

1. Apply every capability pack the app needs.
2. Read app-validation and complete its static gates: typecheck, build, lint, tests, and pack-provided validators. Run pre-deploy browser or persistence checks only when the installed guide and current environment already support a local or deployed runtime.
3. Obtain the user's confirmation for the target Fabric workspace and remote deployment. Do not select or create a workspace the user did not approve.

Rayfin CLI deployment

1. Read the installed package metadata for @microsoft/rayfin-guide, then read its version-matched deployment guide. The current guide location is node_modules/@microsoft/rayfin-guide/assets/docs/app-backend/deploy.md; if package metadata points elsewhere, follow that installed location.
2. Follow that guide's authentication and deployment workflow. For the current version, preview the remote operation with npx rayfin up -n, verify the confirmed target, and then run npx rayfin up --json. JSON mode is non-interactive. On a first deployment with no recorded target, pass the confirmed target explicitly with --workspace-id <id>, --workspace <name>, or --workspace-uri <uri>.
3. Read the machine-readable deployment result before continuing. Overall status: "success" is not enough for a source-backed request. Inspect generate status first. For every connector declared in rayfin.yml, require one matching generate[] result. A missing result or a result with status: "error" is blocking. Only when a result has status: "skipped" should you inspect its skipReason. Every connector required by the requested deployed experience must complete the generation/apply path its installed type contract requires. A Category B non-graphql-connector skip is acceptable only when the installed type contract documents that path and the connector's deployed behavior was validated separately. Any other skip for a required connector is blocking. skippedConnectors summarizes skipped results only; it excludes errors and cannot reveal a missing generate[] result. Do not use skippedConnectors or warning wording to decide whether a connector succeeded. If a required connector is missing, errors, or has a blocking skip, report the blocker and stop. Do not continue to browser validation or claim the source-backed request succeeded.
4. Do not claim the CLI has validation guarantees that its installed guide does not document.
5. Use the direct static-hosting link emitted by the CLI for standalone browser validation. Use the actual Fabric or external host when validating embedded capabilities.
6. Determine services.staticHosting.assetAccess before choosing the browser checks. Local autoLogin does not prove the deployed public signed-out experience.

Do not publish automatically. Do not add --force unless the user explicitly requests it and the installed guide documents the consequence for the exact operation.

Never put access tokens, credentials, or secret values in command arguments, chat, source, or logs. Use interactive authentication and masked secret prompts when the installed guide requires them.

Prove the deployed result

After deployment succeeds, read app-validation and validate the deployed app at its direct hosting URL, confirming that signed-out users must authenticate before app content renders. Run the browser checks and, for app-owned records, the persistence create, reload, update, and delete checks against the deployed result. For public hosting, also open the standalone hosting URL in a clean browser session and verify signed-out then signed-in behavior. For protected hosting, verify session restoration and stale-session replacement. For embedded apps, validate through the actual Fabric or external host. Do not report deployment complete from a build, dry run, hosting URL, or CLI success alone. Report the Fabric app link only after the deployed runtime checks pass, unless the user explicitly defers runtime validation.