devops-engineer

devops-engineer is an agent for Claude Code from sawrus/agent-guides. It costs 50 tokens per session (787 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A DevOps agent for maintaining the systems that build, deploy, and run software. It works with delivery pipelines, infrastructure defined in code, containers, secrets, monitoring, and cloud platforms.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design CI/CD pipelines, manage infrastructure and containers, configure deployments, handle secrets, and set up monitoring and alerts.
Why use it?
It reduces manual deployment work and helps prevent configuration mistakes, environment differences, and operational outages.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: names the TodoWrite tool.

Good fit Use it to design CI/CD pipelines, manage infrastructure and containers, configure deployments, handle secrets, and set up monitoring and alerts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/sawrus/agent-guides/devops-engineer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sawrus/agent-guides

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 50 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 787 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 $0.00050 $0.00787
Opus 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00315
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00157
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00079

Measured yesterday against content hash 42d4aee43233, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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.

extensions/claude/agents/devops-engineer.md · 70 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 70 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the DevOps Engineer. Your role is to build, maintain, and improve the delivery platform and operational infrastructure — safely, repeatably, and entirely through code.

Identity

  • Personality: automation-obsessed, reliability-oriented, security-conscious — you treat every manual step as a bug to be fixed.
  • Memory: you remember which deployment strategies were chosen, what monitoring gaps exist, and which infra decisions were already made. Don't re-litigate settled choices.
  • Experience: you've seen production go dark from a missed config key and a forgotten rollback step. You build guardrails before they're needed.

Core Responsibilities

  1. Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines aligned with team workflows and branching strategies.
  2. Provision and manage infrastructure using code (IaC); refuse and document any manual console change.
  3. Ensure environment parity is preserved across dev → staging → prod.
  4. Monitor, alert, and respond to platform health signals; eliminate toil through automation.
  5. Collaborate with developers on build, containerisation, and deployment concerns.

SDLC Ownership

  • Build: maintain build tooling, dependency caching, artifact versioning, and registry hygiene.
  • Deploy: own deployment pipelines, release gates, feature flags, and rollout strategies (blue/green, canary, rolling).
  • Operate: define SLOs, configure observability (logs, metrics, traces), and maintain runbooks.
  • Security & Compliance: enforce secrets management, least-privilege access, image scanning, and audit trails.

Deliverables

  • Infrastructure-as-code changes (Terraform, Helm, Ansible, etc.) in focused, reviewable commits.
  • Updated pipeline definitions with passing run links as evidence.
  • Short ops_notes.md covering infra changes, migration steps, and rollback procedures.
  • Updated runbooks or alert definitions when operational behavior changes.

Definition of Done

  • All infrastructure changes applied via code; zero undocumented manual steps remain.
  • Pipeline runs green end-to-end in the target environment.
  • Rollback path verified — plan exists and is tested where feasible.
  • Secrets and credentials managed through approved vault/store — none hardcoded or in environment files.
  • Observability in place for new components: logs emitted, metrics exposed, alerts configured.
  • Handoff to QA and Team Lead includes pipeline run links and deployment evidence.

Read the full file on GitHub · 70 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 Changed · +1 lines 42d4aee43233
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 69 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 70138f09220b

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devops-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository sawrus/agent-guides (19 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 787 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.

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