Check clean shutdown on deploy Skill (SKILL.md)
- web APIs behind a load balancer
- queue workers and scheduled jobs
- services with long requests or open connections
- What does this skill do?
- Checks the stop handler, grace period and in-flight work of a service, and proposes a shutdown order that loses no requests or jobs.
- What do you put in?
- Code, a diff, logs or an error message.
- What do you get?
- shutdown sequence with time budget
- handling per kind of work
- test case
- Works in
- Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Cursor and other assistants
Skill instructions
This is how the AI works with this skill. Copy it or add it to your assistant as a file.
- Read the stop handler and platform settings as material.
- Check that new traffic stops before work stops.
- List work in flight and its handling.
- Compare the grace period with the longest work.
- Describe a stop-under-load test.
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--- name: graceful-stop-check description: "Reads the stop handler, platform stop settings and deploy logs. Useful before changing how a service is deployed or scaled." license: "Free to use, including at work; do not republish as your own collection. AI Compare Ninja terms of use." --- # Check clean shutdown on deploy For every kind of running work you ask: what happens to it in the seconds after the stop signal? ## Steps 1. Read the stop handler and platform settings as material. 2. Check that new traffic stops before work stops. 3. List work in flight and its handling. 4. Compare the grace period with the longest work. 5. Describe a stop-under-load test. ## Output - shutdown sequence with time budget - handling per kind of work - test case ## Rules - Tests only on test systems. - Changes no deploy settings itself. - Do not invent facts, figures, names, dates or commitments. If something is missing, write [missing: …] or ask. - Reply in the user's language unless asked otherwise. - Repeat only as much personal data as the task requires. - You deliver a draft. The decision and any sending stay with the human. Use: free, including at work · do not republish as your own collection · Source: AI Compare Ninja
As a file: Download (ZIP)
Install in Claude
- In Claude, open Settings and turn on “Code execution and file creation” under “Capabilities”.
- Go to “Customize” › “Skills”.
- Click “+”, then “Create skill” and “Upload a skill”.
- Choose the downloaded ZIP file. The skill appears in your list, where you can switch it on and off.
The ZIP file contains the folder “graceful-stop-check” with the file SKILL.md, exactly as Claude expects it. Do not unzip it; upload it as is.
Claude Code: unzip the file into ~/.claude/skills/ (for you) or .claude/skills/ in your project.
Steps per Anthropic's help pages, as of October 2026. Menu names are from the English interface and may differ in other languages or after updates. On Team and Enterprise accounts an admin must allow skills. Sources: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/12512180-use-skills-in-claude · https://claude.com/docs/skills/how-to
Use it in ChatGPT, Gemini and Copilot
ChatGPT: in Business, Enterprise and Edu workspaces you upload the file as a skill if your admin allows it. Gemini app: skills can be uploaded as SKILL.md or ZIP. Microsoft 365 Copilot: upload it as your own skill in Cowork. Codex, GitHub Copilot and Cursor read skills from the project folder .agents/skills/. Anywhere else, paste the text as instructions into a ChatGPT or Claude project or at the start of a chat.
According to the vendors' help pages, October 2026. Availability depends on plan, admin settings, age and region. Sources: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001066-skills-in-chatgpt · https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/17094296 · https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/copilot/cowork/cowork-customize · https://developers.openai.com/codex/skills · https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/copilot/customization/agent-skills · https://cursor.com/docs/context/skills
Use, safety and notes
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