platform-engineering

A practice for building an internal developer platform: shared tools and workflows that let engineering teams request infrastructure and follow approved delivery paths themselves. It uses tools such as Backstage, Crossplane, and score.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create developer portals, self-service infrastructure, standard project templates, and controlled deployment paths for teams sharing infrastructure.
Why use it?
It reduces repeated infrastructure work, inconsistent environments, slow onboarding, and delays caused by copying setup files or waiting for manual reviews.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/bagelhole/devops-security-agent-skills/platform-engineering
Any agent
npx skills add BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills --skill platform-engineering
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,450 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 $0.00033 $0.07450
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.03725
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.01490
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00745

Measured yesterday against content hash 91b2abfbbccd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

platform-engineering 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 yesterday.

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 -X POST "$SLACK_WEBHOOK" \
devops/platforms/platform-engineering/SKILL.md · 1,245 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,245 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Platform Engineering

Platform engineering is the discipline of building and maintaining internal developer platforms (IDPs) that enable self-service capabilities for software engineering teams. The goal is to reduce cognitive load, standardize infrastructure provisioning, and accelerate delivery while maintaining governance and security guardrails.


1. When to Use

Adopt platform engineering practices when your organization experiences:

  • Cognitive overload on dev teams -- developers spend more time on infrastructure wiring than writing business logic.
  • Inconsistent environments -- every team provisions infrastructure differently, causing drift and outages.
  • Slow onboarding -- new engineers take weeks to get a working development environment.
  • Repeated toil -- the same Terraform/Helm/CI boilerplate is copy-pasted across dozens of repos.
  • Compliance bottlenecks -- security and ops reviews gate every deployment, slowing release cadence.
  • Scale inflection points -- you have 5+ teams and shared infrastructure concerns (networking, observability, secrets).

Platform engineering is NOT about replacing ops with a portal. It is about encoding organizational standards into reusable, self-service abstractions that dev teams consume through golden paths.


2. Backstage Setup

Backstage is the leading open-source developer portal framework, originally created at Spotify.

Installation

# Prerequisites: Node.js 18+, yarn 1.x
npx @backstage/create-app@latest

# Follow the prompts -- name your app, e.g., "internal-platform"
cd internal-platform

# Start the development server
yarn dev

Production Docker Build

# Dockerfile for Backstage production image
FROM node:18-bookworm-slim AS build
WORKDIR /app

COPY package.json yarn.lock ./
COPY packages/ packages/
COPY plugins/ plugins/

RUN yarn install --frozen-lockfile
RUN yarn tsc
RUN yarn build:backend

FROM node:18-bookworm-slim
WORKDIR /app

COPY --from=build /app/packages/backend/dist/ ./
COPY --from=build /app/node_modules/ ./node_modules/
COPY app-config.yaml app-config.production.yaml ./

ENV NODE_ENV=production
CMD ["node", "packages/backend", "--config", "app-config.production.yaml"]

Read the full file on GitHub · 1,245 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. yesterday First seen · 1,245 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 91b2abfbbccd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

platform-engineering is a skill published in the GitHub repository BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills (932 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 7,450 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.