Claude Code Production Checklist

Why this page matters

Claude Code can ship features quickly, but production risk often hides in webhooks, RLS policies, environment separation, and server-side auth. A checklist keeps those systems visible before users arrive.

Check a Claude Code project before launch

• Confirm which services are real in the repo versus mentioned only in comments or README.
• Verify auth is enforced on API routes and server handlers, not only in client components.
• Check database migrations, RLS or ownership rules, and production vs development separation.
• Audit Stripe or billing webhooks, customer state, and entitlement checks end to end.
• Review Vercel or other deploy config, env vars, domains, and callback URLs.
• Add monitoring and a narrow test or manual check for the first paid-user path.
• Give Claude Code one scoped fix prompt with files, constraints, and verification steps.

How VibeRaven helps

• Scan the repo inside your editor before another broad Claude Code session.
• Open the Mission Map grouped by auth, database, payments, deployment, monitoring, and tests.
• Use launch gaps to pick the highest-risk system instead of refactoring everything.
• Put in Chat turns the gap into a practical next prompt for Claude Code.

Recommended next step

Install VibeRaven and run a launch-readiness pass before your next Claude Code production prompt.

How to use this VibeRaven guide

Claude Code Production Checklist 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.

How do I know if a Claude Code app is production-ready?

Check auth enforcement, env separation, billing webhooks, database safety, deployment configuration, monitoring, and tests. VibeRaven maps those areas from repo evidence and suggests the next scoped prompt.

Does VibeRaven work with Claude Code?

Yes. VibeRaven is editor-based and creates copy-ready prompts you can paste into Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or VS Code agent workflows.

When should I scan a Claude Code project?

Scan when the demo works locally but before onboarding real users, turning on payments, or asking for a vague "make it production-ready" pass.