devops-helper

A practical guide for deploying applications and managing the infrastructure they run on. It covers automated testing and delivery, containers such as Docker, hosting choices, and databases.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to set up continuous integration and delivery, create Docker files, choose a hosting platform, and plan deployment infrastructure.
Why use it?
It helps developers make deployment decisions and automate repeatable release tasks.

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/data-wise/craft/devops-helper
Any agent
npx skills add Data-Wise/craft --skill devops-helper
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Data-Wise/craft

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,342 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00052 $0.01342
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00671
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00268
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00134

Measured 2d ago against content hash 57293546ffab, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

devops-helper 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 2d 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.

skills/design/devops-helper/SKILL.md · 190 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 190 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

DevOps Helper Skill

Auto-activated when: User discusses deployment, CI/CD, Docker, testing automation, or infrastructure decisions.

Core Capabilities

1. CI/CD Pipelines

  • GitHub Actions workflow design
  • Test automation (unit, integration, e2e)
  • Build optimization
  • Deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, rolling)
  • Secrets management

2. Containerization

  • Dockerfile best practices (multi-stage builds)
  • Docker Compose for local dev
  • Image optimization (layer caching, size reduction)
  • Container orchestration (when needed)

3. Deployment Platforms

  • Platform selection (Vercel, Render, Fly.io, Railway)
  • Cost optimization strategies
  • Database hosting (Supabase, PlanetScale, Neon)
  • Static site hosting (Netlify, GitHub Pages)

4. Testing Automation

  • Test pyramid (unit > integration > e2e)
  • Pre-commit hooks (Husky, lint-staged)
  • Code quality gates (coverage thresholds)
  • Performance testing basics

Design Philosophy: Solid Indie

Ship Fast Principles:

  • Start with platform-as-a-service (Vercel, Render)
  • Use managed databases (don't self-host Postgres initially)
  • Automate tests, but don't obsess over 100% coverage
  • Monitor errors (Sentry), not metrics initially

Right-Sized DevOps:

  • Solo/small team: GitHub Actions + Vercel
  • Need scaling: Add Fly.io or Railway
  • Need full control: Then consider AWS/GCP (not before)

Anti-Patterns to Avoid:

  • ❌ Kubernetes for < 10 person teams
  • ❌ Self-hosted infrastructure before product-market fit
  • ❌ Complex multi-environment setups (dev/staging/prod initially)
  • ❌ Over-monitoring (start with errors, add metrics later)

Delegation Strategy

When analysis is needed, I will:

  1. Quick assessment - Identify DevOps problem
  2. Delegate to agents when feasible:
    • devops-engineer agent for pipeline optimization
    • experienced-engineer agent for testing strategy
    • performance-engineer agent for build performance
  3. Run in background - Use Task tool with run_in_background: true
  4. Synthesize results - Provide actionable DevOps recommendations

Read the full file on GitHub · 190 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. 2d ago First seen · 190 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 57293546ffab

Subscribe to this mod's changes

devops-helper is a skill published in the GitHub repository Data-Wise/craft (4 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 1,342 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 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.

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