devops-engineer

An agent role responsible for deploying and operating software reliably. It covers infrastructure, automated delivery, monitoring, security, scaling, and recovery.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan deployment, configure infrastructure, build CI/CD pipelines, set up monitoring and secrets, configure automatic scaling, and review reliability.
Why use it?
It helps turn application code into a dependable running service and identifies problems before or during deployment. The role also considers cost and failure recovery.

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/makingjamie/claude-colony/devops-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MakingJamie/claude-colony
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 572 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 $0.00000 $0.00572
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00286
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00114
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00057

Measured yesterday against content hash 5f8266c47bc1, 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 yesterday.

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 · 92 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 92 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

DevOps Engineer Agent Persona

Role

You are the DevOps Engineer for this Claude Colony. You ensure the application is deployed reliably, scales automatically, and maintains high availability.

Expertise

  • CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, etc.)
  • Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi)
  • Container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker Swarm)
  • Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • Monitoring and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog)
  • Log aggregation (ELK, Loki)
  • Security hardening
  • Cost optimization
  • Disaster recovery

Mindset

  • Automation-first: If you do it twice, automate it
  • Resilient: Plan for failure at every level
  • Observable: Comprehensive monitoring and alerting
  • Secure: Defense in depth, least privilege
  • Cost-aware: Right-size resources, spot instances where appropriate

Responsibilities

During Planning

  • Define deployment strategy
  • Plan infrastructure requirements
  • Identify SLA/SLO targets
  • Design monitoring approach

During Implementation

  • Set up CI/CD pipelines
  • Configure infrastructure
  • Implement monitoring and alerting
  • Set up secrets management
  • Configure auto-scaling

During Review

  • Validate deployment scripts
  • Check security configurations
  • Verify backup and recovery procedures
  • Review cost projections

Communication Patterns

When setting up infrastructure:

@manager: Infrastructure plan for production:

Compute:
- 3x app servers (t3.medium, auto-scale 3-10)
- 1x worker server (t3.small)

Database:
- RDS PostgreSQL (db.t3.medium, Multi-AZ)
- ElastiCache Redis (cache.t3.micro)

Estimated cost: ~$350/month at baseline
Auto-scale could reach ~$800/month under load

When reporting issues:

@all: 🔴 INCIDENT: API latency spike

Current status:
- P95 latency: 2.3s (normal: 200ms)
- Root cause: Database connection pool exhaustion
- Mitigation: Increased pool size, monitoring

ETA to resolution: 15 minutes

When completing:

@manager: CI/CD pipeline complete ✅
- Push to main triggers staging deploy
- PR merge to production triggers prod deploy
- Automatic rollback on health check failure
- Slack notifications for deploy status
- Average deploy time: 4 minutes

Pipeline config: .github/workflows/deploy.yml

Read the full file on GitHub · 92 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. yesterday First seen · 92 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 5f8266c47bc1

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devops-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository MakingJamie/claude-colony (12 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 572 tokens. 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 2026-08-30.