ci-cd-ops

ci-cd-ops is a skill for Claude Code from 0xDarkMatter/claude-mods. It costs 66 tokens per session (2,735 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reference guide for continuous integration and delivery: automated checks and processes that test, package, and release software. It focuses on GitHub Actions, release tools, and testing pipelines.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when setting up GitHub Actions, automated tests, deployments, releases, versioning, build matrices, caching, secrets, or reusable workflows.
Why use it?
It provides ready patterns for defining automated workflows instead of designing every pipeline step from scratch.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the claude-mods plugin — 112 skills, 3 commands, 3 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it when setting up GitHub Actions, automated tests, deployments, releases, versioning, build matrices, caching, secrets, or reusable workflows.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/0xdarkmatter/claude-mods/ci-cd-ops
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.

Any agent
npx skills add 0xDarkMatter/claude-mods --skill ci-cd-ops
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/0xDarkMatter/claude-mods

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-mods, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 112 skills, 3 commands, 3 agents, 4 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,735 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Anti-Refusal · line 269
    Skill instructs the agent to omit warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Stripping safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.
    Fix: Remove instructions that suppress warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Let the agent surface safety-relevant caveats to the user.
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 235
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
How audits are shown
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 $0.00066 $0.02735
Opus 5.5 $0.00026 $0.01094
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00547
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00274

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 605fb27cca59, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ci-cd-ops 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 1mo 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.

skills/ci-cd-ops/SKILL.md · 332 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 332 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CI/CD Operations

Comprehensive patterns for continuous integration, delivery, and deployment using GitHub Actions, release automation tools, and testing pipelines.

GitHub Actions Quick Reference

Workflow File Anatomy

name: CI                          # Display name in Actions tab
on:                               # Trigger events
  push:
    branches: [main]
  pull_request:
    branches: [main]

permissions:                      # GITHUB_TOKEN scope (least privilege)
  contents: read
  pull-requests: write

concurrency:                      # Prevent duplicate runs
  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
  cancel-in-progress: true

env:                              # Workflow-level environment variables
  NODE_VERSION: "20"

jobs:
  test:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
        with:
          node-version: ${{ env.NODE_VERSION }}
          cache: npm
      - run: npm ci
      - run: npm test

Core Syntax Elements

Element Purpose Example
on Event triggers push, pull_request, schedule
jobs.<id>.runs-on Runner selection ubuntu-latest, self-hosted
jobs.<id>.needs Job dependencies needs: [build, lint]
jobs.<id>.if Conditional execution if: github.event_name == 'push'
jobs.<id>.strategy.matrix Parallel variants node-version: [18, 20, 22]
jobs.<id>.environment Deployment target environment: production
jobs.<id>.permissions Token scope contents: write
steps[*].uses Use an action uses: actions/checkout@v4
steps[*].run Run a command run: npm test
steps[*].env Step environment env: { CI: true }

Trigger Decision Tree

Scenario Trigger Config
Run tests on every PR pull_request branches: [main]
Deploy on merge to main push branches: [main]
Release on version tag push tags: ['v*']
Nightly builds schedule cron: '0 2 * * *'
Manual deployment workflow_dispatch inputs: { environment: ... }
Called by another workflow workflow_call inputs:, secrets:
On PR label change pull_request types: [labeled]
On issue comment issue_comment types: [created]
On release published release types: [published]
On package push registry_package types: [published]

Read the full file on GitHub · 332 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 332 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A 605fb27cca59

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ci-cd-ops is a skill published in the GitHub repository 0xDarkMatter/claude-mods (71 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 2,735 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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