§ Issue No. 01 — Production Engineering Quarterly

Your app shipped. The hard part starts now.

Free production-hardening prompts for apps built with Cursor, Claude, v0, and Lovable. The ten-phase pipeline used to ship four enterprise systems — written for founders who built with AI and now have customers depending on it.

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$ ship-hardened ./your-appArchitecture mapped47 issues found12 P0 fixes appliedConnection pool configuredProduction ready

You know how it goes.

You built it fast. Cursor wrote most of it. You hit ship.

Then real users showed up. And the questions started piling up.

“You don't have answers. You wrote it with AI. You shipped it with AI. You're going to scale it with AI.”

  • What happens when 50 users hit the same endpoint at once?
  • Why is one user costing me $200/day in Anthropic credits?
  • Is my auth actually working, or did Cursor just say it was?
  • Why does deploy break the database connection every other time?
  • What's my fallback when OpenAI is down — 500 error or graceful degrade?

But the failure modes aren't in any tutorial — and the senior engineer who'd normally catch them costs $250 an hour and doesn't take small contracts.

RLSMost Lovable / Cursor / Supabase apps ship with row-level security disabled or wrong — the #1 cause of cross-tenant data leaks.
$82kBurned in 48 hours from one stolen API key that shipped in a client-exposed env var.
$1.5k+What a human audit of a vibe-coded app costs. The kit gets you most of the way there yourself.

A ten-phase production hardening pipeline.

Built from running real audits on real production code. Refined while shipping four enterprise systems including AI agent infrastructure handling regulated B2B workflows.

FIG. A — THE HARDENING PIPELINE
▣ Production
Verified
00
Inventory
Baseline
01
Threat Model
STRIDE
02
Concurrency
Race conditions
03
DB & Cache
Under load
04
Failure Modes
Degradation
05
AI Hardening
Cost & injection
06
Observability
3am test
07
Data Integrity
PII & backups
08
Load & Chaos
3× peak
09
Launch Gate
Signoff

EACH PHASE HAS AN EXIT GATE. NO PHASE IS SKIPPED. NO LAUNCH PROCEEDS WITHOUT GREEN.

  • A ten-phase pipeline that walks you from “vibe-coded mess” to “I can sleep at night.”
  • Twelve ready-to-paste prompts that turn Cursor or Claude into your senior code reviewer.
  • A printable scorecard that tracks every gate across every app you ship.
  • Stack-specific guidance for Next.js + Vercel, Supabase, Railway, Neon, and more.
  • A before/after example audit so you know what good output actually looks like.

I built this because I needed it.

I'm shipping four production apps in parallel under The AMSO Group — ApexTalent (AI recruiting, live on Vercel), TriadOS (agent-orchestration infrastructure), Phase Zero, and one more I'm actively building. My day job is enterprise B2B sales at a Fortune 500 software company, where I've spent years watching multi-million-dollar deals get killed by exactly the kind of production failure most AI-built apps walk straight into.

The playbook started as my own checklist. After the fourth time I caught a critical bug by running the same set of prompts — a row-level security gap on one app, an unbounded AI-cost loop on another — I cleaned it up and turned it into this kit. It's the same pipeline I run on every system before real customers touch it.

It's the document I wish someone had handed me when I started shipping.

— Omar Jabara
The AMSO Group · 2026

Get the prompts.
Then fix what they find.

01Who is this actually for?

Founders, indie devs, and small teams who've shipped — or are about to ship — a real app built largely with AI. If you have users, or you're about to, and the words “race condition,” “idempotency key,” or “connection pooling” make you nervous, this is for you.

02Do I need to be a senior engineer to use this?

No. The prompts do the work. You paste them into Cursor or Claude with your codebase open, and you get a structured audit back. You decide what to fix; the kit tells you what to look for.

03What if it doesn't apply to my stack?

The core pipeline is stack-agnostic. All prompts work with any stack — just tell the AI which tools you're using and it adapts the audit to match.

04How is this different from a scanner?

Scanners find problems and hand you a report — a score, a list of red flags, and then you're on your own. ShipHardened fixes them. The twelve prompts turn Cursor or Claude into a senior engineer that remediates in place: it rewrites the query, adds the index, enables the RLS policy, wires the idempotency key. Scanners diagnose. This treats.

05Is this AI-generated content?

No. The playbook is written by hand based on real audits. The prompts have been tested on actual codebases. AI-generated production checklists are exactly the kind of thing this kit is designed to catch.

06Why not just hire a senior engineer to audit it?

You can — a human audit of a vibe-coded app runs $1,500–$5,000 and takes weeks. If you have the budget and a launch that justifies it, do that. ShipHardened runs the same ten-phase pipeline through your own AI tools — free. Many founders use it to get to a clean baseline, then bring in a human only for the final pass.

07What do I actually get?

The free playbook gives you the methodology — the ten phases, the framework, what to look for. The prompts hand you the actual tools: the twelve audit prompts standalone, the readiness scorecard, the Top 15 Production Killers reference. Everything is free. We collect your email, send you the kit, and you run the prompts in Cursor or Claude yourself.