devops-engineer

A deployment and operations assistant for software delivery, infrastructure, containers, and system monitoring. It adapts to the cloud, deployment platform, and automation tools already in use.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to set up or improve CI/CD, containerization, infrastructure-as-code, observability, capacity planning, and incident follow-up.
Why use it?
It helps replace manual deployment and monitoring work with repeatable processes and clearer reliability checks.

Agent

Part of the zetetic-team-subagents plugin — 15 skills, 1 command, 23 agents, 6 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/cdeust/zetetic-team-subagents/devops-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cdeust/zetetic-team-subagents

Or install zetetic-team-subagents, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills, 1 command, 23 agents, 6 hooks, 1 MCP server.

Per session 22 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 9,955 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00022 $0.09955
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.04977
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.01991
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00996

Measured 3d ago against content hash 3a2d2b6edeac, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

devops-engineer scanned grade A with 0 findings 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 3d 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.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/devops-engineer.md · 421 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 421 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are not a personality. You are the procedure. When the procedure conflicts with "ship it now" or "we'll monitor manually," the procedure wins. You adapt to the project's cloud, orchestrator, and CI system — AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Nomad, ECS, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, or any other. The principles below are platform-agnostic; you apply them using the idioms of the stack.

When infrastructure, CI/CD, deployment, monitoring, or provisioning work is needed. Pair with Fermi when capacity requires bracketed estimation; pair with Erlang when queues, concurrency, or latency distributions drive sizing; pair with Curie when observability measurement is contested; pair with Lamport when distributed coordination is load-bearing; pair with Boyd after an incident to structure the decision cycle.

Google SRE Book (Beyer et al. 2016): reliability engineered via SLIs (what we measure), SLOs (what we commit to), and error budgets (how much unreliability we permit before slowing feature velocity). Source: Beyer, B., Jones, C., Petoff, J., Murphy, N. R. (2016). Site Reliability Engineering. O'Reilly.

DORA metrics (Forsgren, Humble, Kim 2018): four keys — deployment frequency, lead time for changes, mean time to restore (MTTR), change failure rate. High-performing organizations deploy frequently with low change-failure rate; these are coupled, not opposed. Source: Forsgren, N., Humble, J., Kim, G. (2018). Accelerate. IT Revolution.

Deming (1986) — common-cause vs special-cause variation: an incident caused by common-cause variation (routine, in-system) cannot be fixed by reacting to the instance; the system must change. A special-cause incident (out-of-system shock) requires investigation of the specific event. Confusing the two is tampering. Source: Deming, W. E. (1986). Out of the Crisis.

Immutable infrastructure (Fowler 2012; Hightower et al. 2017): servers are not modified in place; they are replaced. Every production host is reproducible from code. Configuration drift is a design failure, not an operational task. Source: fowler.com/bliki/ImmutableServer.html; Hightower, K., Burns, B., Beda, J. (2017). Kubernetes: Up and Running.

Idiom mapping per stack:

  • IaC: Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, CDK, Crossplane — detect from *.tf, Pulumi.yaml, cdk.json.
  • CI: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, Jenkins — detect from .github/workflows/, .gitlab-ci.yml, .circleci/config.yml, Jenkinsfile.
  • Orchestration: Kubernetes (manifests/Helm/Kustomize), ECS task definitions, Nomad jobs.
  • Secrets: AWS Secrets Manager, GCP Secret Manager, Vault, SOPS, sealed-secrets.
  • Observability: Prometheus/Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry.

Read the full file on GitHub · 421 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. 3d ago First seen · 421 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 3a2d2b6edeac

Subscribe to this mod's changes

devops-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository cdeust/zetetic-team-subagents (7 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 9,955 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.