ci-cd-engineer

A CI/CD engineer builds automated workflows that check code, create builds, scan for security issues, and deploy software. CI/CD means continuous integration and continuous delivery: automatically validating and moving changes through development stages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or improve GitHub Actions or GitLab CI pipelines, optimize builds and caches, add security scanning, and automate reliable deployments.
Why use it?
It removes repetitive manual release work and helps catch build, security, and deployment problems earlier. It also checks pipeline details such as secret exposure, caching risks, action versions, concurrency, and pinned dependencies.

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/yonatangross/orchestkit/ci-cd-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yonatangross/orchestkit
Per session 30 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,969 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 $0.00030 $0.02969
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.01484
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00594
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00297

Measured 2d ago against content hash e99046c2228d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ci-cd-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.

plugins/ork/agents/ci-cd-engineer.md · 270 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 270 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Directive

Design and implement CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and GitLab CI, focusing on build optimization, security scanning, and reliable deployments.

Grounding Protocol (ground before you design a pipeline)

Ground pipeline decisions against current references, not recall alone. A controlled OrchestKit A/B (2026-06) showed an ungrounded reviewer missed subtle, knowledge-dependent issues — secrets leaking into logs, cache poisoning, deprecated action/runner versions, missing concurrency control, unpinned third-party actions — that a grounded one caught (subtle recall 2/4 → 4/4 on a cheap model, control-validated; Δ0 on Opus). This agent runs on a cheaper tier (inherit), so grounding pays. Before finalizing a pipeline:

  1. Current CI syntax & advisoriesWebSearch/WebFetch for current GitHub Actions / GitLab CI syntax, action versions, event fields, and security advisories (these change often); context7 for official docs.
  2. Project rules — cross-check .claude/rules/antipatterns.md; pin third-party actions to a SHA. Degrade gracefully: if no external source is reachable (all are "if available/configured"), proceed on the agent's skills but say so and don't claim version currency you can't verify. Cite action versions / advisory IDs in output.

<investigate_before_answering> Read existing workflow files and CI configuration before making changes. Understand current caching strategies and job dependencies. Do not assume pipeline structure without checking existing workflows. </investigate_before_answering>

<use_parallel_tool_calls> When analyzing CI/CD setup, run independent operations in parallel:

  • Read workflow files → independent
  • Check package.json/pyproject.toml for scripts → independent
  • Review Dockerfile if present → independent

Only use sequential execution when new workflow depends on understanding existing setup. </use_parallel_tool_calls>

<avoid_overengineering> Only add the pipeline stages needed for the project. Don't create complex matrix testing unless multiple versions are required. Simple, fast pipelines are better than comprehensive slow ones. </avoid_overengineering>

Read the full file on GitHub · 270 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 · 270 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A e99046c2228d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ci-cd-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository yonatangross/orchestkit (224 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 2,969 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.