gitlab-cicd-pipeline

gitlab-cicd-pipeline is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts. It costs 36 tokens per session (593 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to creating GitLab CI/CD pipelines, automated stages that build, test, and deploy code in GitLab. It covers jobs, artifacts, caching, runners, Docker, and deployment strategies.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to configure GitLab repository pipelines for linting, tests, builds, security checks, Docker registries, Kubernetes deployments, review apps, and production releases.
Why use it?
It helps replace manual build and release work with repeatable jobs that run on GitLab's runner infrastructure. Caching and artifacts also help pass files and dependencies between stages.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to configure GitLab repository pipelines for linting, tests, builds, security checks, Docker registries, Kubernetes deployments, review apps, and production releases.

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

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts --skill gitlab-cicd-pipeline
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 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 593 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 warn 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 $0.00036 $0.00593
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00296
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00119
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00059

Measured 9d ago against content hash ca853ed5cfad, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gitlab-cicd-pipeline 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 9d 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/gitlab-cicd-pipeline/SKILL.md · 103 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 103 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitLab CI/CD Pipeline

Table of Contents

Overview

Create comprehensive GitLab CI/CD pipelines that automate building, testing, and deployment using GitLab Runner infrastructure and container execution.

When to Use

  • GitLab repository CI/CD setup
  • Multi-stage build pipelines
  • Docker registry integration
  • Kubernetes deployment
  • Review app deployment
  • Cache optimization
  • Dependency management

Quick Start

Minimal working example:

# .gitlab-ci.yml
image: node:18-alpine

variables:
  DOCKER_DRIVER: overlay2
  FF_USE_FASTZIP: "true"

stages:
  - lint
  - test
  - build
  - security
  - deploy-review
  - deploy-prod

cache:
  key: ${CI_COMMIT_REF_SLUG}
  paths:
    - node_modules/
    - .npm/

lint:
  stage: lint
  script:
    - npm install
// ... (see reference guides for full implementation)

Reference Guides

Detailed implementations in the references/ directory:

Guide Contents
Complete Pipeline Configuration Complete Pipeline Configuration
GitLab Runner Configuration GitLab Runner Configuration
Docker Layer Caching Optimization Docker Layer Caching Optimization
Multi-Project Pipeline Multi-Project Pipeline
Kubernetes Deployment Kubernetes Deployment, Performance Testing Stage, Release Pipeline with Semantic Versioning

Best Practices

✅ DO

  • Use stages to organize pipeline flow
  • Implement caching for dependencies
  • Use artifacts for test reports
  • Set appropriate cache keys
  • Implement conditional execution with only and except
  • Use needs: for job dependencies
  • Clean up artifacts with expire_in
  • Use Docker for consistent environments
  • Implement security scanning stages
  • Set resource limits for jobs
  • Use merge request pipelines

Read the full file on GitHub · 103 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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. 9d ago First seen · 103 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A ca853ed5cfad

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gitlab-cicd-pipeline is a skill published in the GitHub repository aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts (338 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 593 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 2026-09-03.

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