Production Deployment Checklist

Before Launch

●       Secrets in vault

●       Rate limiting

●       Retry logic

●       Queueing

●       Structured logs

●       Health checks

●       DB pooling

●       CI/CD

●       Rollback strategy

●       Human approval console

●       Policy engine live

●       Audit logs enabled

●       Monitoring dashboards

●       Incident runbooks

●       MCP servers pinned to a known-good tool-definition hash, with re-approval required on change (New)

●       OAuth issuer validation enabled on every MCP client (New)