Treat Your Deploy Scripts Like the Code They Ship: Idempotent, Documented, and Runnable by Anyo

Deploy scripts are where starter templates quietly die

Every starter template ships code. Most ship a README. The gap between the two is where Tuesday 2am deploys go to die — and where the next engineer quietly decides "I'll just rewrite this part" and the original template stops being a template.

The pattern is so common it's almost invisible. You clone the repo. You read the README. You run cp .env.example .env. You fill in a dozen secrets you don't fully understand. You push. You get a TLS error. You read the README again. You scroll past the Quick Start to a section called "Deployment" that's six paragraphs of prose and one link to a dashboard you'll need to log into.

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