This comprehensive guide is designed to help your organization successfully implement and adopt LaunchDarkly feature flags as part of your Center of Excellence initiative. Whether you’re a program manager setting objectives or a developer implementing SDKs, this guide provides structured, step-by-step guidance to ensure successful LaunchDarkly adoption across your development teams.
What You’ll Find Here
Program Management
Establish clear objectives, key results, and measurable success criteria for your LaunchDarkly implementation. This section helps program managers and leadership:
- Define OKRs aligned with business objectives
- Set up governance and best practices
- Track adoption metrics and success indicators
SDK Implementation
Technical guidance for developers implementing LaunchDarkly SDKs in their applications. This section includes:
- Preflight Checklists - Step-by-step implementation guides
- Configuration best practices
- Security and compliance considerations
- Testing and validation procedures
Getting Started
New to LaunchDarkly? Start with the Program Management section to understand the strategic approach and objectives.
Ready to implement? Jump to the SDK Preflight Checklist for hands-on technical guidance.
Looking for specific guidance? Use the search functionality to quickly find relevant information.
How to Use This Guide
This guide is structured as a progressive journey:
- Plan - Establish program objectives and success criteria
- Prepare - Complete preflight checklists for your technology stack
- Implement - Follow step-by-step SDK integration guides
- Validate - Test and verify your implementation
- Scale - Apply best practices across your organization
Each section builds upon the previous one, but you can also jump to specific topics based on your immediate needs.
Use this guide with AI tools
This guide publishes machine-readable versions for AI assistants and coding agents. Choose the file that fits your tool:
| File | Contents | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| llms.txt | A table of contents that links to every page | Agents that fetch only the pages they need |
| llms-full.txt | The full guide in one Markdown file, about 86,000 tokens | Chat assistants such as Claude or ChatGPT |
Any page URL ending in .md | A single page as plain Markdown | Sharing one topic |
Follow the steps for your tool:
- Chat assistants: Download
llms-full.txtand attach it to your conversation or project knowledge. - Coding agents: Point your agent at
llms.txtso it reads the relevant pages on demand. - A single page: Replace
.htmlwith.mdat the end of any page URL.
To point a coding agent at the guide, add this line to its instructions file, such as CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, or a Cursor rules file:
For LaunchDarkly implementation guidance, read https://launchdarkly-labs.github.io/ps-flag-book/llms.txt
Need Help?
- LaunchDarkly Documentation: launchdarkly.com/docs
- LaunchDarkly Developer Hub: developers.launchdarkly.com
- LaunchDarkly Help Center: support.launchdarkly.com
- LaunchDarkly Academy: launchdarkly.com/academy