Creating a passkey once on your laptop is not the same as deploying passkeys.

A production release needs evidence at three layers: public configuration, server verification, and the real user journey. A failure at any layer can produce a broken experience even when the other two look healthy.

This is part two of Passkeys in Production , adapted from our full deployment checklist . Helpers.work also provides the Passkey Deployment Checker used for the public-configuration layer.

1. Record the identity boundary

Write down the actual sign-in origin, RP ID, allowed server origins, credential store, and native app identifiers.

An illustrative setup:

Sign-in origin: https://login.example.com RP ID: example.com Server policy: explicitly allow https://login.example.com

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The RP ID is not necessarily the hostname visible in the address bar. Read it from the options your backend produces.

Keep staging and production boundaries intentional.…