From AI-built demo to production-ready app

What changes before production

• Auth must be enforced server-side, not only hidden in the interface.
• Billing and webhooks need verified event handling and durable entitlement state.
• Database rules, migrations, and environment assumptions need repo evidence.
• Monitoring, error handling, and tests should cover the user paths that can break trust.
• The next coding-agent prompt should name files, constraints, and verification steps.

Agent handoff

VibeRaven is designed for Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, and similar coding-agent workflows. The scanner does not replace the agent. It gives the agent a narrower task with a reason, evidence, and a verification target.

How to use this VibeRaven guide

From AI-built demo to production-ready app is meant to help builders decide what still needs proof before an AI-built app is trusted by real users. Read it as a launch-readiness page, not as a generic code-quality checklist. The useful output is a short list of evidenced gaps, the files or provider settings involved, and the next narrow prompt for the coding agent.

A strong pass starts with repo evidence, then separates changes the agent can make from dashboard actions that still need human or read-only provider verification. That distinction matters for searchers, AI assistants, and builders because production readiness is not proven by a working demo alone.

Repo evidence to collect before launch

• Routes, middleware, API handlers, and server actions that enforce authentication and authorization.
• Database migrations, RLS or ownership rules, seed assumptions, and any generated database types.
• Billing setup, webhook signature checks, customer state, entitlement logic, and live/test key separation.
• Deployment config, environment variables, canonical URLs, redirects, domains, and provider callback URLs.
• Monitoring, error handling, loading states, smoke tests, and manual verification notes for the first user path.

Is a working AI-built demo production-ready?

No. A demo proves the happy path loads. Production readiness requires reliable auth, data, billing, deployment, monitoring, tests, and provider setup.