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building-ci-pipelines

building-ci-pipelines is a skill for Claude Code from ancoleman/ai-design-components. It costs 62 tokens per session (2,973 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for building CI/CD pipelines, which automatically test, build, and deploy software when code changes. It covers GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Argo Workflows, and Jenkins, including monorepos—repositories containing multiple projects.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to set up automated tests, secure container builds, multi-platform builds, caching, parallel jobs, GitOps automation, and pipelines for monorepos.
Why use it?
It helps organize reliable pipelines, reduce slow build times, and protect the software supply chain, the process by which code and dependencies become released software.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the devops-skills plugin — 6 skills shipped together

not rated 530repo +3 11mo ago A scan 62 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to set up automated tests, secure container builds, multi-platform builds, caching, parallel jobs, GitOps automation, and pipelines for monorepos.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ancoleman/ai-design-components/building-ci-pipelines
View source ↗ ancoleman/ai-design-components
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 ancoleman/ai-design-components --skill building-ci-pipelines
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ancoleman/ai-design-components

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install devops-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,973 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.
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 $0.00062 $0.02973
Opus 5.5 $0.00025 $0.01189
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00595
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00297

Measured 2mo ago against content hash e7433f619d7f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

building-ci-pipelines 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_workflow.py), 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/building-ci-pipelines/SKILL.md · 450 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 450 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Building CI Pipelines

Purpose

CI/CD pipelines automate testing, building, and deploying software. This skill provides patterns for constructing robust, secure, and efficient pipelines across GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Argo Workflows, and Jenkins. Focus areas: supply chain security (SLSA), monorepo optimization, caching, and parallelization.

When to Use This Skill

Invoke when:

  • Setting up continuous integration for new projects
  • Implementing automated testing workflows
  • Building container images with security provenance
  • Optimizing slow CI pipelines (especially monorepos)
  • Implementing SLSA supply chain security
  • Configuring multi-platform builds
  • Setting up GitOps automation
  • Migrating from legacy CI systems

Platform Selection

GitHub-hosted → GitHub Actions (SLSA native, 10K+ actions, OIDC) GitLab-hosted → GitLab CI (parent-child pipelines, built-in security) Kubernetes → Argo Workflows (DAG-based, event-driven) Legacy → Jenkins (migrate when possible)

Platform Comparison

Feature GitHub Actions GitLab CI Argo Jenkins
Ease of Use ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ⭐⭐⭐⭐ ⭐⭐⭐ ⭐⭐
SLSA Native Manual Good Manual
Monorepo Good Excellent Manual Plugins

Quick Start Patterns

Pattern 1: Basic CI (Lint → Test → Build)

# GitHub Actions
name: CI
on: [push, pull_request]

jobs:
  lint:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - run: npm run lint

  test:
    needs: lint
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - run: npm test

  build:
    needs: test
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - run: npm run build

Pattern 2: Matrix Strategy (Multi-Platform)

test:
  runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
  strategy:
    matrix:
      os: [ubuntu-latest, windows-latest, macos-latest]
      node-version: [18, 20, 22]
  steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
    - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
      with:
        node-version: ${{ matrix.node-version }}
    - run: npm test

Read the full file on GitHub · 450 lines

Files

What ships with it

11 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. 2mo ago First seen · 450 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A e7433f619d7f

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building-ci-pipelines is a skill published in the GitHub repository ancoleman/ai-design-components (530 stars, last pushed 11mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 2,973 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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