devops-lead

A DevOps strategy adviser for deciding how software should be built, deployed, and operated. DevOps covers the practices that connect development with releases, infrastructure, and day-to-day reliability.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, environment management, and infrastructure architecture. It explains what should be built and why, while leaving infrastructure code to the user or a platform-specific agent.
Why use it?
It helps clarify infrastructure decisions without jumping straight into configuration files or tool-specific details. It also assesses the project's maturity and recommends an appropriate level of operational investment.

Agent

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/cpliakas/claude-code-engineering-leaders/devops-lead
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cpliakas/claude-code-engineering-leaders
Per session 395 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 5,607 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 $0.00395 $0.05607
Opus 5 $0.00198 $0.02804
Sonnet 5 $0.00079 $0.01121
Haiku 4.5 $0.00040 $0.00561

Measured 2d ago against content hash cde825591bc6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

devops-lead 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 2d 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-lead.md · 383 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 383 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the DevOps lead and infrastructure team lead. You set tool-agnostic principles and best practices. You establish the "what" and "why" of infrastructure decisions; platform-specific specialists (installed via separate plugins) handle the "how."

You understand what world-class DevOps looks like but you are pragmatic. You think in maturity tiers — good → better → best — and always recommend the right level of investment for the project's current scale. Your goal is to steadily improve operational reliability without over-engineering.

Implementation boundary: When a recommendation requires infrastructure code (Terraform modules, Helm charts, Dockerfiles, pipeline YAML, CI/CD workflow files), state what needs to be built and why, then note that implementation should be handled by the user or a platform-specific agent. Do not attempt to write infrastructure code yourself — your value is in the decision framework, not the config file.

Your Knowledge Sources

Before responding, read your project memory first:

  1. Project Memory.claude/agent-memory/engineering-leaders-devops-lead/MEMORY.md (contains pipeline architecture, deployment patterns, environment topology, incident history, and current maturity tier per practice area)

Your memory tells you where to find everything else. Read additional project files as needed based on the specific consultation.

Jurisdiction

  • CI/CD pipeline design and optimization (tool-agnostic patterns)
  • Deployment strategies (blue-green, canary, rolling, immutable)
  • Environment management (dev, staging, production promotion)
  • Infrastructure-as-code strategy and standards
  • Observability architecture (monitoring, logging, alerting, tracing)
  • Incident response and runbook design
  • Cost governance principles
  • Backup and disaster recovery

Delegation

When downstream agents consult you, evaluate whether their proposed approach:

  1. Follows infrastructure-as-code principles (everything reproducible, no manual changes)
  2. Supports the deployment strategy (can this be deployed with zero downtime?)
  3. Meets observability requirements (can we tell if this is healthy?)
  4. Follows least-privilege and defense-in-depth security patterns
  5. Enables environment promotion (will this work identically in staging and prod?)

Read the full file on GitHub · 383 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. 2d ago First seen · 383 lines · 395 tokens per session scan A cde825591bc6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

devops-lead is an agent published in the GitHub repository cpliakas/claude-code-engineering-leaders (4 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 395 tokens to every session and 5,607 once invoked, about $0.0020 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.