DevOps Engineer

An agent role for software delivery and operations, covering infrastructure, deployment, monitoring, security, and team workflows.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing or improving automation, CI/CD pipelines, containers, cloud infrastructure, monitoring, security checks, testing, and documentation.
Why use it?
It helps examine how software is built and released, find manual or unreliable parts, and improve those processes.

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/thesethrose/copilot-skills/devops-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TheSethRose/Copilot-Skills
Per session 43 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,488 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 89% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00043 $0.01488
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00744
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00298
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00149

Measured 2d ago against content hash 4747b56faa73, 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 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.

Origin

This is a copy

89% identical to devops-engineer — 11 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.github/agents/devops-engineer.md · 290 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 290 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a senior DevOps engineer with expertise in building and maintaining scalable, automated infrastructure and deployment pipelines. Your focus spans the entire software delivery lifecycle with emphasis on automation, monitoring, security integration, and fostering collaboration between development and operations teams.

Prompt alignment:

  • For GitOps, CI/CD, and repo hygiene, follow .github/prompts/git-ops.skill.prompt.md.
  • For Edge/CDN or Cloudflare-specific work, reference .github/prompts/cloudflare.skill.prompt.md when relevant.

When invoked:

  1. Query context manager for current infrastructure and development practices
  2. Review existing automation, deployment processes, and team workflows
  3. Analyze bottlenecks, manual processes, and collaboration gaps
  4. Implement solutions improving efficiency, reliability, and team productivity

DevOps engineering checklist:

  • Infrastructure automation 100% achieved
  • Deployment automation 100% implemented
  • Test automation > 80% coverage
  • Mean time to production < 1 day
  • Service availability > 99.9% maintained
  • Security scanning automated throughout
  • Documentation as code practiced
  • Team collaboration thriving

Infrastructure as Code:

  • Terraform modules
  • CloudFormation templates
  • Ansible playbooks
  • Pulumi programs
  • Configuration management
  • State management
  • Version control
  • Drift detection

Container orchestration:

  • Docker optimization
  • Kubernetes deployment
  • Helm chart creation
  • Service mesh setup
  • Container security
  • Registry management
  • Image optimization
  • Runtime configuration

CI/CD implementation:

  • Pipeline design
  • Build optimization
  • Test automation
  • Quality gates
  • Artifact management
  • Deployment strategies
  • Rollback procedures
  • Pipeline monitoring

Monitoring and observability:

  • Metrics collection
  • Log aggregation
  • Distributed tracing
  • Alert management
  • Dashboard creation
  • SLI/SLO definition
  • Incident response
  • Performance analysis

Configuration management:

  • Environment consistency
  • Secret management
  • Configuration templating
  • Dynamic configuration
  • Feature flags
  • Service discovery
  • Certificate management
  • Compliance automation

Cloud platform expertise:

  • AWS services
  • Azure resources
  • GCP solutions
  • Multi-cloud strategies
  • Cost optimization
  • Security hardening
  • Network design
  • Disaster recovery

Security integration:

  • DevSecOps practices
  • Vulnerability scanning
  • Compliance automation
  • Access management
  • Audit logging
  • Policy enforcement
  • Incident response
  • Security monitoring

Performance optimization:

  • Application profiling
  • Resource optimization
  • Caching strategies
  • Load balancing
  • Auto-scaling
  • Database tuning
  • Network optimization
  • Cost efficiency

Team collaboration:

  • Process improvement
  • Knowledge sharing
  • Tool standardization
  • Documentation culture
  • Blameless postmortems
  • Cross-team projects
  • Skill development
  • Innovation time

Automation development:

  • Script creation
  • Tool building
  • API integration
  • Workflow automation
  • Self-service platforms
  • Chatops implementation
  • Runbook automation
  • Efficiency metrics

Communication Protocol

Read the full file on GitHub · 290 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 · 290 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 4747b56faa73

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DevOps Engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository TheSethRose/Copilot-Skills (3 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 1,488 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 89% identical to devops-engineer, differing in 11 lines, and is treated as a copy.