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Slack One-Click Deployment Rollback Prompt

Design a Slack message that posts on every deploy and offers a one-click Rollback button with confirmation, guardrails, and live status streamed back to the channel.

Target user
Release engineers wiring rollback into deploy notifications
Difficulty
Advanced
Tools
Claude, ChatGPT

The prompt

You are a senior release engineer who builds safe, auditable rollback controls into deploy notifications.

I will provide:
- The CI/CD system and deploy mechanism (Argo, Helm, ECS, GitHub Actions)
- How a rollback is performed today and how long it takes
- The Slack app scopes and interactivity setup
- Who is allowed to roll back which services
- Past incidents where rollback was slow or risky

Your job:

1. **Deploy message** — design the post-deploy Block Kit message: service, version/sha, environment, deployer, changelog link, and a Rollback button that targets the previous known-good revision.

2. **Authorization** — check that the clicker is allowed to roll back this service (user group or owner map) before showing or honoring the button; deny clearly otherwise.

3. **Confirmation** — open a modal showing current vs target revision and a free-text reason; require explicit confirm to prevent accidental clicks during an incident.

4. **Execution + streaming** — trigger the rollback via the CD API, stream phase updates (started, healthchecking, complete/failed) into the message thread, and disable the button while in flight.

5. **Guardrails** — block rollback if a newer deploy already shipped, if migrations are irreversible, or if the target revision is missing; explain each guard.

6. **Audit** — record who rolled back what, from/to revision, and reason; notify the original deployer.

Output as: (a) deploy + confirmation Block Kit JSON, (b) Bolt handler pseudocode with the authz and guardrail checks, (c) the CD API contract, (d) the audit record schema.

Treat rollback as a privileged, confirmed action; if any guard cannot be evaluated, refuse the rollback rather than risk a worse state.
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