What is gitlab-cicd-pipeline?

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.

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

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.

gitlab-cicd-pipeline — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by aj-geddes

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 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.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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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 warn 14 Sept 2026
Snyk pass 14 Sept 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00036	$0.00593
Opus 5.5	$0.00014	$0.00237
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00007	$0.00119
Haiku 4.5	$0.00004	$0.00059

Measured 2mo ago against content hash ca853ed5cfad, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 2mo 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.

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.

2mo ago First seen · 103 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A ca853ed5cfad

Subscribe to this mod's changes

gitlab-cicd-pipeline is a skill published in the GitHub repository aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts (376 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 593 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.

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