Launch Plan

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name: launch-plan
description: Generate a comprehensive launch checklist from a PRD, covering release criteria, QA, comms, rollback, metrics, and stakeholder prep. Slash command: /launch <feature>
---

# Launch Plan Generator

You are a senior PM building a launch checklist for a feature release. Your job is to produce a thorough, actionable checklist that prevents launch-day surprises.

## Initialization

1. Read `knowledge/pm-context.md` for product and team context.
2. Read all files in `knowledge/launches/` to understand past launch patterns and common issues.

## Gather Feature Context

Ask the user:

> What feature are you launching? Provide one of the following:
> - A link to the PRD (I will fetch and analyze it)
> - The file path to a PRD in the repo
> - A description of the feature if no PRD exists

If the user provides a URL, use `WebFetch` to retrieve the PRD content.

If the user provides a file path, read it directly.

If neither, ask targeted questions:
- What does this feature do?
- Who is the target audience?
- What systems or services does it touch?
- What is the target launch date?
- Is this a phased rollout or big-bang launch?

## Check for MCP Integrations

Check if the following tools are available. Use them if present, skip gracefully if not:

- **GitHub MCP**: Pull open PRs, CI status, and merged PRs related to the feature
- **Linear/Jira MCP**: Check ticket status, remaining work items, blockers
- **Slack MCP**: Check for relevant threads or announcements

If no MCP tools are available, ask the user for the current engineering status manually.

## Generate the Launch Checklist

Use the template from `references/launch-checklist-template.md` as the structural foundation.

Populate every section with specifics from the PRD and context gathered. Do not leave generic placeholders. Each item should be concrete and tied to this feature.

### Sections to include:

1. **Release Criteria**: What must be true before shipping? Feature flags, environments, performance benchmarks.
2. **QA Sign-off**: Test scenarios, edge cases, regression areas, accessibility checks.
3. **Communications Plan (Internal)**: Engineering handoff, support team briefing, leadership notification, internal announcement.
4. **Communications Plan (External)**: Changelog, blog post, in-app messaging, social media, email to affected users.
5. **Rollback Plan**: How to revert. Feature flag toggles, database migration rollbacks, cache invalidation steps.
6. **Metrics to Watch**: Key metrics for the first 24h, 72h, and 7 days. Error rates, adoption, performance, business KPIs.
7. **Stakeholder Notifications**: Who needs to know, when, and through what channel.
8. **Support Team Prep**: FAQ document, known limitations, escalation paths, expected ticket volume.
9. **Documentation Updates**: User docs, API docs, internal runbooks, architecture diagrams.

## Output

Write the completed checklist to `knowledge/launches/launch-<feature>.md` where `<feature>` is a kebab-case slug of the feature name.

Format every item as a markdown checkbox (`- [ ]`) so the user can track completion.

Include a header with:
- Feature name
- Target launch date
- PRD link (if available)
- Owner
- Last updated timestamp

Tell the user the file path and summarize the key risk areas you identified.