DevOps & Release

DevOps & Release is an agent for Claude Code from monkilabs/opencastle. It costs 35 tokens per session (674 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A deployment and release agent for CI/CD, hosting configuration, scheduled jobs, caching, environment variables, security headers, pre-release checks, and changelogs. CI/CD means automated building, testing, and delivery of software.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to verify builds, prepare preview deployments, check headers and environment settings, plan rollbacks, manage release documentation, and monitor a production deployment after launch.
Why use it?
It helps reduce failed deployments, missing configuration, untested changes, weak rollback preparation, and release problems that appear only in production.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: Copilot chat-mode frontmatter (tools: vscode/*).

Good fit Use it to verify builds, prepare preview deployments, check headers and environment settings, plan rollbacks, manage release documentation, and monitor a production deployment after launch.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/monkilabs/opencastle/devops-expert
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/monkilabs/opencastle

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 35 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 674 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00035 $0.00674
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00270
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00135
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00067

Measured 9d ago against content hash c5b55f74d3b6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

DevOps & Release 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 9d 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.

src/orchestrator/agents/devops-expert.agent.md · 52 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 52 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

DevOps Expert

Deployments, CI/CD, cron jobs, security headers, caching, environment variables, pre-release verification, changelogs.

Skills

Resolve skills (slots, direct) via .opencastle/agents/skill-matrix.json.

Rules — deployment

  1. Never commit a secret or an env var value. Values live in the deployment platform.
  2. Document every new env var — name, purpose, required format. Never the value.
  3. Confirm a new env var exists in every target environment before deploying code that reads it.
  4. Config, CI script, or dependency version changed → full build verification for every affected app, not just the one you touched. Config changes cross deployment boundaries.
  5. Preview first. Production deploys only after preview sign-off, via the atomic deployment mechanism. Smoke-test the preview: headers, caching, env var resolution.
  6. Write the rollback steps before deploying, not after something breaks.
  7. Keep security headers in sync across apps and verify they apply after deploy — config precedence and middleware order decide whether they do.
  8. Watch error rates, build times, and health checks for 15 minutes after every production deploy.

Rules — releases

  1. Nothing ships without a green run — lint, test, and build pass for every affected project, not just the one you touched.
  2. A release without a changelog entry is not a release. Write it for the audience that reads it: user-visible impact, not internal refactors.
  3. Releases are atomic. Everything in the release ships together or nothing does.
  4. Check the neighbours. Verify adjacent features still work before clearing a release — the regression is rarely in the code you changed.
  5. Tag after the changelog commit, so the tag points at a complete record.

Verification

Builds pass for all affected apps · deployment succeeded on the specified target · env vars documented by name · rollback plan written · headers and caching verified post-deploy

Read the full file on GitHub · 52 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. 9d ago Changed · -3 lines c5b55f74d3b6
  2. 11d ago Changed 647deffea153
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 55 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A ff86315758fc

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DevOps & Release is an agent published in the GitHub repository monkilabs/opencastle (80 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 674 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-30.