Deploy

Deploy the CDK stacks via the Makefile.

Resolve the target first

The Makefile already resolves the target:

• REGION = $AWS_REGION if set, else aws configure get region
• PROFILE = $AWS_PROFILE if set, else default

1. Print the resolution before deploying and state it to the user: echo "region=${AWS_REGION:-$(aws configure get region)} profile=${AWS_PROFILE:-default}"
2. Sanity-check the credentials actually work and match the intended account: aws sts get-caller-identity (with the resolved profile). If this fails or the region resolves to empty, stop and report — do not deploy blind.
3. Always ask the user to confirm the resolved account/region/profile and the stack groups about to be deployed, and wait for an explicit yes before running any make deploy* target, unless the user has already explicitly approved the deployment. A deploy mutates live infrastructure; confirmation is per-invocation and is never inferred from an earlier approval in the session. If the resolved profile is anything other than a development one, say so explicitly in the confirmation prompt.

Deploy

• Whole platform: make deploy (= deploy-all; builds all lambdas, gathers stack inputs per group, builds the admin dashboard, deploys every stack group from Stackfile.yaml, then uploads outputs).
• Single stack group: make deploy-<group> (groups come from Stackfile.yaml, e.g. rmng, espuser, alexa, claim). Prefer this when the user names a component — it's much faster than deploy-all.
• claim is intentionally excluded from deploy-all (it creates a billable KMS CA key). Deploy it only when the user explicitly asks: make deploy-claim.

Deploys are long-running: run them with a generous timeout (or in the background) and stream/report progress rather than letting the command time out silently.

After

• Report which stack groups deployed, into which account/region/profile, and surface any CloudFormation errors verbatim.
• On a stuck custom resource or rollback, point at scripts/unstick_custom_resource.py rather than retrying blindly.
• Do not run make destroy or modify Stackfile.yaml as part of this skill.