# Production Readiness Audit: five rules and a five-check script (free sample)

> From the Production Readiness Audit: five rules for going live (a pass needs evidence, every gap has an owner and a due date, roll back once on purpose, test refusals, someone who did not build it signs), and a read-only script that checks one audit file for them.

- URL: https://paperchasewebb.ai/bots/marketplace/items/production-readiness-audit-five-rules-and-checks-free-sample/
- Type: Prompt pack
- Category: Solo business
- By: PaperChaseWebb
- Works with: Claude Code, Codex, Grok Bot, Hermes (named in the listing); Plain .md plus one Python 3 script, standard library only; one prompt for all four harnesses
- Price: Free USD
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Setup time: 5 min
- Time to result: About five minutes to a first result
- Format: Markdown (.md) file, production-readiness-audit-five-rules-and-checks-free-sample.md
- Version: 1.0, updated 2026-10-28
- License: Personal and commercial use.

## What you end up with

In a few minutes you can see whether an agent system's go-live rests on proof or on ticked boxes.

## What you get

- Five go-live rules
- audit_mini.py: five read-only checks on one audit-lite.json
- One prompt for all four harnesses
- Worked example: 5 findings, then 0

## Who it is for

Anyone who wants a quick, honest check before an agent workflow goes live.

## Tools needed

- Grok Bot, Claude Code, Codex or Hermes: the agent that gathers evidence and fills the audit folder; it reads the skill file, AGENTS.md snippet or rules block and never signs the verdict on a system it built
- Python 3: runs audit.py (init, hash, seal, owner approval, verify) and the fifteen-check checker; standard library only, no network
- You need: Python 3.9 or newer
- You need: Any of Grok Bot, Claude Code, Codex or Hermes

Cost to run: Free.

## Sample prompt: Check the evidence (Grok Bot, Claude Code, Codex, Hermes)

```
Read audit-lite.json. For each area marked pass, open the evidence file it names and tell me in one line whether it actually proves the area. Mark any that do not as gap.
Run audit_mini.py audit-lite.json and show me the findings. Do not sign anything.
```

The rules and the script are in the file.

## Free preview of production-readiness-audit-five-rules-and-checks-free-sample.md

````markdown
# Production Readiness Audit: five rules and a five-check script (free sample)

Version 1.0, 2026-10-28. By PaperChaseWebb. For anyone about to put an agent workflow in front of real customers, built with Grok Bot, Claude Code, Codex, Hermes or anything else. One Markdown file and one Python 3 script, standard library only. The script was tested on its worked example (5 findings, then 0) and on a missing file (exit 2). It was not run inside any agent harness or on a real system.

Readiness checklists are easy to pass. "Rollback plan: yes." "Error handling: yes." Signed by the person who built it. The problems show up later: a rollback nobody had tried, a gap nobody owned, an agent that did whatever an email told it to. These five rules ask for proof on the points that hurt most, and the script checks them in one small file.

## Install in one line

Save this page as FREE-SAMPLE.md, then:

```
python3 -c "import re;t=open('FREE-SAMPLE.md').read();open('audit_mini.py','w').write(re.search(r'~~~python\n(.*?)~~~',t,re.S).group(1))"
python3 audit_mini.py audit-lite.json
```

## Five rules

1. **A pass needs evidence.** Name a file: a config excerpt, a log sample, a test output, a drill note. "Works" and "tested" are not evidence.
2. **Every gap has a named owner and a due date.** Not "TBD", not "the team".
3. **Roll back once on purpose before launch.** Write down the date it passed.
4. **Test refusals.** Give the agent something it must decline (a price it should not promise, an 
````

## Worth knowing

- The sample checks one file against five rules. The twelve areas, evidence folder, blocking areas, secrets and access sheets, monitors, the seal, owner approval by hash and the fifteen checks are in the full pack.
- On 2026-10-28 audit_mini.py gave 5 findings on the worked example, then 0 on the fixed file, and exited 2 on a missing file. The prompt was not run inside a harness.

## Questions

**Does it send anything anywhere?** No. It reads one file and opens no network connection.

**What is in the full pack?** The audit folder with twelve areas and templates, what counts as evidence for each, audit.py with the seal and owner approval tied to the report hash, fifteen read-only checks with a seeded test audit, a skill file, AGENTS.md snippet and Grok Bot rules block, ten prompts and a failure table. $39.

## How to get it

Free sample. Download it directly at https://paperchasewebb.ai/bots/marketplace/items/production-readiness-audit-five-rules-and-checks-free-sample/, no signup.

Seller: PaperChaseWebb Inc., mgmt@paperchasewebb.com