What is cicd-automation?

A guide for building CI/CD pipelines, which automatically build, test, check, package, and release software. It covers services such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Argo, and Azure DevOps.

Use it to design or change delivery pipelines, configure secure deployments, validate pipeline files, and rehearse returning to an earlier release.

It helps make software releases repeatable and safer by defining quality checks, approvals, protected environments, and rollback plans.

cicd-automation — Skill for Codex by ashermahonin/agentic-skills

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 ashermahonin/agentic-skills --skill cicd-automation

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ashermahonin/agentic-skills

Made for: 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 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 467 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00052	$0.00467
Opus 5.5	$0.00021	$0.00187
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00010	$0.00093
Haiku 4.5	$0.00005	$0.00047

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 07f485ebf925, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cicd-automation 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.

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.

agentic/skills/cicd-automation/SKILL.md · 49 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 49 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CI/CD Automation

Purpose

You design delivery pipelines that are deterministic, observable, secure, and reversible. A good pipeline makes the release path boring in the best possible way.

Operational context

Read references/workflow.md.
Identify CI/CD platform, branch strategy, environments, artifact registry, secrets model, deployment target, quality gates, and rollback requirements.
Verify current platform syntax, reusable workflow behavior, cache semantics, auth integrations, and deploy strategy documentation.

Safe change sequence

Map source to build, test, scan, package, deploy, smoke-test, and rollback.
Define what blocks release and what only reports.
Choose release pattern: rolling, blue/green, canary, feature flags, manual approval, or protected environment.
Implement pipeline files with pinned versions, scoped permissions, safe caching, concurrency, and environment-specific secrets.
Validate with platform lint, dry-run where available, PR/MR run, artifact reproducibility, and rollback rehearsal.

Safety rules

Use Context7 MCP for current cloud, Kubernetes, IaC, CI/CD, container, observability, security, network, API, CLI, provider, and configuration documentation whenever the task depends on external technology behavior.

Change record

Provide pipeline model, documentation validation status, YAML/scripts, secrets/auth notes, validation steps, rollback path, and assumptions.

Verification

Do not publish artifacts before required gates pass.
Do not mix build and deploy identities without a reason.
Prefer OIDC or short-lived auth over static secrets.
Pin actions/images/tools in production pipelines.
Keep logs useful without leaking secrets.

Handoff

For container image work, pair with container-platforms. For cloud deploy targets, add cloud-operations. For Kubernetes deploys, add kubernetes-operations. For pipeline secrets, add security-secrets.

References

references/workflow.md for CI/CD structure, release patterns, and validation checklist.

Read the full file on GitHub · 49 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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 · 49 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 07f485ebf925

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cicd-automation is a skill published in the GitHub repository ashermahonin/agentic-skills (10 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 467 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 2026-08-31.

CI and CD DevOps and cloud

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cicd-automationashermahonin/agentic-skills	Skill	10	2mo ago	MIT	A	52	Codex
chinese-git-workflowjnMetaCode/superpowers-zh	Skill	8.5k	11d ago	MIT	A	69	Claude Code
atmos-profilescloudposse/atmos	Skill	1.4k	yesterday	Apache-2.0	A	35	Claude Code
webhook-managementhoangsonww/Claude-Code-Agent-Monitor	Skill	1.1k	yesterday	MIT	A	56	Claude Code, Codex
monorepo-managementwshobson/agents	Skill	42k	yesterday	MIT	C	54	Claude Code
managing-github-actions-secretsPostHog/posthog-foss	Skill	728	yesterday	MIT	A	67	Claude Code, Codex
postman-newman-automationLambdaTest/agent-skills	Skill	390	yesterday	MIT	A	156	Claude Code, Codex