Flow Deployment Activation Ordering

Quality score: 70/100 · Category: Engineering · Sub-category: devops

Use when deploying Flow metadata across environments and worrying about activation order: which flow version becomes active, how paused interviews survive deploys, and how to avoid the 'two active versions for a moment' race. Covers SFDX / Metadata API deploy flags, 'Deploy as Active', rollback, and paused-interview safety. Does NOT cover Flow authoring best practices (see flow-bulkification) or general release management.

What this skill does

Flow Deployment Activation Ordering is a production-ready Claude Code skill (quality score 70/100) in the devops sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/flow-deployment-activation-ordering/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when deploying Flow metadata across environments and worrying about activation order: which flow version becomes active, how paused interviews survive deploys, and how to avoid the 'two active versions for a moment' race. Covers SFDX / Metadata API deploy flags, 'Deploy as Active', rollback, and paused-interview safety.

Who uses this skill

The Flow Deployment Activation Ordering skill is built for software engineers, backend developers, full-stack teams, and technical leads building and maintaining production systems. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 15,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/flow-deployment-activation-ordering
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/flow-deployment-activation-ordering/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/flow-deployment-activation-ordering/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/flow-deployment-activation-ordering/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/flow-deployment-activation-ordering/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\flow-deployment-activation-ordering\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

The ClaudSkills desktop app installs any skill directly into ~/.claude/skills/ with one click — no terminal required. Pro starts at $9/mo or $149 lifetime.

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