<!-- https://staircase.co/agents/roster/search-to-production -->
# Search to production

# Search to production

Data

<!--source:agent-kits-->
Takes a retrieval system from a local prototype through to production: the index model, the migration off the local store, historical backfill, live ingestion per source, and the instructions an agent needs to use it.
<!--/source-->

- **Used when**
<!--source:agent-kits-->
— When a retrieval prototype works and the question is what it takes to run it for real.
<!--/source-->

- **Loads first**
<!--source:agent-kits-->
- The local prototype skill first, then the production retrieval skill.
<!--/source-->
<!--source:agent-kits-->
- The batch-workflow skill, for the backfill.
<!--/source-->

- **Returns**
<!--source:agent-kits-->
- The prototype's status, command surface and verification results.
<!--/source-->
<!--source:agent-kits-->
- The corpus, chunk, link, embedding, metadata and data-governance contract.
<!--/source-->
<!--source:agent-kits-->
- The readiness gate result and the questions still open.
<!--/source-->
<!--source:agent-kits-->
- The production index model and the migration plan off the local store.
<!--/source-->
<!--source:agent-kits-->
- The backfill design, with cost, idempotency, metrics and replay.
<!--/source-->
<!--source:agent-kits-->
- The ingestion design per source.
<!--/source-->
<!--source:agent-kits-->
- The rollout plan, the verification, and the remaining limitations.
<!--/source-->

- **Hands off**
- Knowledge search — designing the retrieval agent itself

## Others in Data

- Counterparty document expectations
- Data-lake assistant
- Dataset fulfilment
- Knowledge search
- Metric reconciliation
- Model curator
- Pipeline control panel
- Property data exploration
- Public record ingestion
- Question answering
- Report catalog
