--- name: techsmith-prod-checklist description: >- Validate a Snagit or Camtasia automation release across licensing, versioning, desktop session, storage, privacy, rollback, and support readiness. Use when preparing a production rollout or scheduled media run. Trigger with "TechSmith production checklist", "Camtasia go live", or "Snagit automation readiness". argument-hint: "[release-manifest] [environment]" allowed-tools: Read, Glob, Grep, WebFetch, Write, Edit version: 1.6.0 author: Jeremy Longshore license: MIT tags: - desktop-automation - techsmith - operations model: inherit effort: medium compatibility: Designed for Claude Code; TechSmith product execution requires an approved Windows or macOS desktop as documented --- # TechSmith Production Go-No-Go ## Overview This skill produces a fail-closed production decision with evidence owners. It covers desktop constraints that ordinary web-service checklists miss: interactive sessions, licensed endpoints, installed type libraries, project version compatibility, local scratch, capture privacy, and artifact promotion. ## Prerequisites - Release manifest with scripts, packages, product versions, configurations, and hashes - Approved endpoints, license assignments, service owner, privacy classification, and retention policy - Representative canary capture/export plus expected validation results - Rollback package, incident contacts, and maintenance window ## Tool Discipline Use `Read`, `Glob`, and `Grep` to inspect local scripts, manifests, logs, and tests. Use `WebFetch` only for current primary TechSmith documentation. Use `Write` or `Edit` only after confirming the target repository file and approval boundary. ## Current Contract - Every production worker maps to an approved endpoint, user/license model, product version, and data boundary. - Snagit COM jobs declare capture scope and interactive-session behavior. - Camtasia jobs use local active storage and the modern exporter supported by the pinned release. - Promotion requires validated output, cleanup, monitoring, and tested rollback—not merely process exit zero. ## Licensing and Authentication TechSmith desktop activation is not API authentication. Resolve individual sign-in versus business-key or approved offline activation before execution. Redact all keys, account identifiers, activation artifacts, and sensitive endpoint details. ## Instructions 1. Verify immutable release inputs, vendor-origin installers, checksums, code review, and test evidence. 2. Reconcile endpoint versions, entitlement ownership, activation health, connectivity, and update policy. 3. Test COM registration or recorder discovery and confirm interactive-session scheduling where required. 4. Run a canary with synthetic content; validate file properties, path boundary, and cleanup. 5. Exercise rollback without deleting libraries, projects, or user data; confirm support escalation artifacts. 6. Issue GO only when every blocking control has evidence; otherwise name the blocker, owner, and next check. ## Approval Boundaries No checklist item may be waived silently. Capture privacy, entitlement, destructive uninstall, data migration, and rollback failures are hard blockers. ## Output Return GO/NO-GO, release and product versions, evidence per control, blockers, owners, canary result, rollback result, and review timestamp. ## Error Handling | Condition | Response | |---|---| | Version inventory drifts | Stop rollout and reconcile workers to the pinned release. | | Canary captures real user data | Delete or quarantine it under policy and replace the canary with synthetic content. | | Rollback deletes data | Reject the rollback plan and separate application removal from data retention. | | License health unknown | Block scheduling until the entitlement owner verifies it. | ## Examples The example below shows the minimum redacted evidence expected from a successful invocation of this operator workflow. ```text decision=NO-GO; blocker=worker-03-version-drift; owner=desktop-eng; canary=pass; rollback=pass ``` ## Resources - [Skill-specific official documentation](references/official-docs.md) - [Deployment overview](https://support.techsmith.com/hc/en-us/articles/43771074923021-Deploying-TechSmith-Products) - [Current update guidance](https://support.techsmith.com/hc/en-us/articles/360038603471-How-do-I-upgrade-update-Snagit-or-Camtasia-Editor) --- Source attribution: jeremylongshore Original project: https://github.com/jeremylongshore/claude-code-plugins-plus-skills/blob/ab85a061f7bcc039dac13ee193de7a4cd4388571/plugins/saas-packs/techsmith-pack/skills/techsmith-prod-checklist/SKILL.md License: MIT License information: https://opensource.org/license/mit Original upstream instructions; downloaded from Mega AI Hub. ## Upstream license notice MIT License Copyright (c) 2025 Jeremy Longshore Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. 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