deploying-airflow

deploying-airflow is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from astronomer/agents. It costs 48 tokens per session (2,807 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to putting Apache Airflow workflows and projects into a running environment. Deployment means moving code and its required files to the system that runs it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to deploy DAGs, Docker images, dbt projects, and other Airflow project files, and to set up deployment workflows such as CI/CD.
Why use it?
It helps choose and follow a deployment path for managed Astro Airflow or self-managed Airflow using Docker Compose or Kubernetes, including what changes require a full project deploy.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the astronomer-data plugin — 35 skills, 3 commands shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/astronomer/agents/deploying-airflow
Any agent
npx skills add astronomer/agents --skill deploying-airflow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/astronomer/agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install astronomer-data, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 35 skills, 3 commands.

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.

agentmods badge for deploying-airflow

README.md
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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,807 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00048 $0.02807
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.01404
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00561
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00281

Measured 4d ago against content hash 1d5912a31433, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

deploying-airflow scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 4d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -LfO 'https://airflow.apache.org/docs/apache-airflow/stable/docker-compose.yaml'
Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/deploying-airflow/SKILL.md · 440 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 440 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Deploying Airflow

This skill covers deploying Airflow DAGs and projects to production, whether using Astro (Astronomer's managed platform) or open-source Airflow on Docker Compose or Kubernetes.

Choosing a path: Astro is a good fit for managed operations and faster CI/CD. For open-source, use Docker Compose for dev and the Helm chart for production.


Astro (Astronomer)

Astro provides CLI commands and GitHub integration for deploying Airflow projects.

Deploy Commands

Command What It Does
astro deploy Full project deploy — builds Docker image and deploys DAGs
astro deploy --dags DAG-only deploy — pushes only DAG files (fast, no image build)
astro deploy --image Image-only deploy — pushes only the Docker image (for multi-repo CI/CD)
astro deploy --dbt dbt project deploy — deploys a dbt project to run alongside Airflow

Full Project Deploy

Builds a Docker image from your Astro project and deploys everything (DAGs, plugins, requirements, packages):

astro deploy

Use this when you've changed requirements.txt, Dockerfile, packages.txt, plugins, or any non-DAG file.

DAG-Only Deploy

Pushes only files in the dags/ directory without rebuilding the Docker image:

astro deploy --dags

This is significantly faster than a full deploy since it skips the image build. Use this when you've only changed DAG files and haven't modified dependencies or configuration.

Image-Only Deploy

Pushes only the Docker image without updating DAGs:

astro deploy --image

This is useful in multi-repo setups where DAGs are deployed separately from the image, or in CI/CD pipelines that manage image and DAG deploys independently.

dbt Project Deploy

Deploys a dbt project to run with Cosmos on an Astro deployment:

astro deploy --dbt

GitHub Integration

Astro supports branch-to-deployment mapping for automated deploys:

  • Map branches to specific deployments (e.g., main -> production, develop -> staging)
  • Pushes to mapped branches trigger automatic deploys
  • Supports DAG-only deploys on merge for faster iteration

Read the full file on GitHub · 440 lines

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. 4d ago First seen · 440 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 1d5912a31433

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deploying-airflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository astronomer/agents (432 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 2,807 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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