cicd-pipeline-setup

cicd-pipeline-setup is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts. It costs 40 tokens per session (525 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for creating automated workflows that test, build, check, and deploy software using services such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or CircleCI. CI/CD means automatically checking and delivering code changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to set up workflows for automated tests, container builds, security scans, release versioning, artifact storage, and multi-environment deployments.
Why use it?
It removes much of the repeated manual work involved in testing releases and deploying them to different environments. It also helps include security and performance checks in the delivery process.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to set up workflows for automated tests, container builds, security scans, release versioning, artifact storage, and multi-environment deployments.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts/cicd-pipeline-setup
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts --skill cicd-pipeline-setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 525 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
  • Socket pass 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk pass 4 Mar 2026
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 $0.00040 $0.00525
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00262
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00105
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00052

Measured 12d ago against content hash d0d7eecd7749, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cicd-pipeline-setup 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/validate-pipeline.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/cicd-pipeline-setup/SKILL.md · 99 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 99 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CI/CD Pipeline Setup

Table of Contents

Overview

Build automated continuous integration and deployment pipelines that test code, build artifacts, run security checks, and deploy to multiple environments with minimal manual intervention.

When to Use

  • Automated code testing and quality checks
  • Containerized application builds
  • Multi-environment deployments
  • Release management and versioning
  • Automated security scanning
  • Performance testing integration
  • Artifact management and registry

Quick Start

Minimal working example:

# .github/workflows/deploy.yml
name: Build and Deploy

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - main
      - develop
  pull_request:
    branches:
      - main
  workflow_dispatch:

env:
  REGISTRY: ghcr.io
  IMAGE_NAME: ${{ github.repository }}

jobs:
  test:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    strategy:
      matrix:
        node-version: [18.x, 20.x]

    steps:
// ... (see reference guides for full implementation)

Reference Guides

Detailed implementations in the references/ directory:

Guide Contents
GitHub Actions Workflow GitHub Actions Workflow
GitLab CI Pipeline GitLab CI Pipeline
Jenkins Pipeline Jenkins Pipeline
CI/CD Script CI/CD Script

Best Practices

✅ DO

  • Fail fast with early validation
  • Run tests in parallel when possible
  • Use caching for dependencies
  • Implement proper secret management
  • Gate production deployments with approval
  • Monitor and alert on pipeline failures
  • Use consistent environment configuration
  • Implement infrastructure as code

❌ DON'T

  • Store credentials in pipeline configuration
  • Deploy without automated tests
  • Skip security scanning
  • Allow long-running pipelines
  • Mix staging and production pipelines
  • Ignore test failures
  • Deploy directly to main branch
  • Skip health checks after deployment

Read the full file on GitHub · 99 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 12d ago First seen · 99 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A d0d7eecd7749

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cicd-pipeline-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts (338 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 525 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.

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