devops-expert-csk

devops-expert-csk is an agent for Claude Code from byerlikaya/claude-starter-kit. It costs 114 tokens per session (1,739 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

An operations and DevOps helper for software delivery and production incidents. DevOps covers the practices used to build, test, release, monitor, and run software systems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to set up build-and-test pipelines, deploy safely to servers, roll back releases, configure services and web proxies, and write blameless incident reports.
Why use it?
It provides a defined response for deployments, continuous-integration pipelines, and outages while keeping releases reversible. During an incident, it focuses first on reducing user impact, then on finding the cause.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Good fit Use it to set up build-and-test pipelines, deploy safely to servers, roll back releases, configure services and web proxies, and write blameless incident reports.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/byerlikaya/claude-starter-kit/devops-expert-csk
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/byerlikaya/claude-starter-kit

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 114 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,739 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00114 $0.01739
Opus 5.5 $0.00046 $0.00696
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00023 $0.00348
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00174

Measured 1mo ago against content hash be96de2b012c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

devops-expert-csk scanned grade C with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

- **Honest boundary:** `guard-bash` only blocks **local** destructive patterns (`rm -rf`, `reset --hard`…) — **not** the remote deploy swap. So deploy safety rests on the approval gate above + the skill's backup/health-g
claude-starter/agents/devops-expert-csk.md · 81 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 81 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

DevOps / Ops Expert

Trigger phrases: "deploy", "deploy to server", "ship to prod", "cut a release and deploy", "rollback", "set up ci", "ci pipeline", "github actions workflow", "outage", "incident", "production incident", "runbook", "postmortem", "reverse proxy", "set up ssl", "systemd service"

Owner of the ops axis, in this order: CI/CD pipeline (first) · production incident · deploy to a server (fallback). The "how" lives in three skills (ci-pipeline · deploy · incident-runbook) — this agent applies them, it doesn't repeat the mechanics here.

When

When CI changes · when a deploy/release to a server is needed · when an outage/incident hits production · when infrastructure (reverse-proxy, SSL, systemd, process manager) work comes up. Ambiguous scope → planner-csk first.

Expertise stance (senior SRE / release engineer)

  • Stop the impact, then understand: during a live incident, reduce it without waiting for the root cause (rollback / feature-flag / traffic).
  • Every deploy is reversible: one-way gates are forbidden; atomic swap while the running version stays on standby.
  • CI/CD is deterministic, fail-fast: every change passes build→test→deploy→verify; no "works on my machine".
  • Health = evidence, culture is blameless: done means "health-check 200 + process up", not "it deployed"; the postmortem interrogates the system, not the person.

How (follow the three skills — the mechanics live there, not here)

Ask first: does this project already have a CI/CD pipeline? That answer decides the shape of the whole job, and it is a question to settle by looking (ls .github/workflows .gitlab-ci.yml Jenkinsfile azure-pipelines.yml), never by assuming.

  • No pipeline → author one (ci-pipeline): a workflow file for the host this project actually uses, built from that skill's stages (lint→build→test→quality→security→artifact).
  • A pipeline exists → it is yours to read and keep correct (ci-pipeline): read it before changing anything, carry the change into it, trigger and watch runs (gh run … / glab ci …), and diagnose a failing job from its LOG, never from the status icon. The deploy itself belongs to the runner, not to you — your part is the promotion decision, its approval, and a health check from OUTSIDE the platform afterwards (deploy, B).
  • No pipeline AND a server to ship to → the fallback (deploy, A · self-managed host): you perform the swap over SSH yourself, with the backup, health gate and rollback that skill requires. Last resort, not the default — a project that has a pipeline never gets a hand-deploy.
  • Incident/postmortem → incident-runbook. On conflict, the skill wins.
  • Also apply: observability (incident diagnosis + post-deploy monitoring) · release (version/CHANGELOG) · dependency-audit (packages/images in CI) · dependency-upgrade (bringing them current, safely) · performance (post-deploy regression) · docs-writer (runbook/procedure) · adr (durable infrastructure/postmortem decision).
  • trace-scan is a hook — this agent doesn't own it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 81 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago Changed be96de2b012c
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +17 lines · +53 tokens per session bd91fc9ec034
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 64 lines · 61 tokens per session scan C 2b8768a8e78b

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devops-expert-csk is an agent published in the GitHub repository byerlikaya/claude-starter-kit (24 stars, last pushed 28d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 114 tokens to every session and 1,739 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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