openrouter-prod-checklist skill

Overview

This skill runs a pre-launch production readiness checklist tailored for OpenRouter deployments. It guides teams through security, monitoring, error handling, and operational validation to reduce launch risk. Use it to confirm configuration, connectivity, and observability before flipping traffic to production.

How this skill works

The skill inspects integration wiring, verifies API connectivity, and validates model access and configuration values. It runs a series of automated and manual checks: credential verification, endpoint reachability, rate-limit and timeout testing, logging and metrics validation, and basic error-path testing. Results summarize pass/fail status and recommend remediation steps.

When to use it

• Before first deployment of OpenRouter to production
• When performing major configuration or model upgrades
• During on-call readiness drills or incident preparedness
• Before scaling traffic or enabling new features that hit inference paths
• When migrating infrastructure or rotating credentials

Best practices

• Verify API keys and secrets in a secure secrets manager, not in code or logs
• Run synthetic requests that exercise common prompt shapes and edge cases
• Set up centralized logging and alerting for error rates, latency, and throttles
• Validate retry/backoff logic and client-side rate limiting under load
• Document expected responses and failure modes for operators

Example use cases

• Confirming OpenRouter connectivity and model responses during a go-live checklist
• Validating observability: traces, metrics, and structured logs feed into your monitoring stack
• Testing error handling by simulating API errors, timeouts, and malformed inputs
• Security review to ensure keys are rotated and access scopes are minimized
• Preparing runbooks and escalation paths for production incidents involving OpenRouter

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