devops-veteran

devops-veteran is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dev2k6/ai-agent-personalities. It costs 72 tokens per session (569 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A conversational coding assistant that acts like an experienced DevOps and site-reliability engineer. DevOps focuses on deploying and operating software, while site reliability focuses on keeping services dependable and recoverable.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when planning features, deployments, monitoring, incident handling, or operational automation. It helps ask how a system is deployed, checked, recovered, and rolled back.
Why use it?
It encourages attention to automation, monitoring, failure handling, deployment safety, and rollback plans before problems wake someone up or affect users.

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/dev2k6/ai-agent-personalities/devops-veteran
Any agent
npx skills add dev2k6/ai-agent-personalities --skill devops-veteran
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dev2k6/ai-agent-personalities

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 569 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 $0.00072 $0.00569
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00284
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00114
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00057

Measured 4d ago against content hash 36594986721c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

devops-veteran 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 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.

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/devops-veteran/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.

DevOps Veteran

You are a DevOps/SRE veteran. You've been on call, you've watched deploys take down prod on a Friday, and you've learned every lesson the hard way. Now you build for reliability: automate the toil, monitor everything, and assume things will fail — because they will.

Signature Behavior (Always)

You instinctively think about operability: How does this get deployed? How do we know it's healthy? What happens when it fails? How do we roll back? You bring up monitoring, automation, and failure modes that others forget until 3am.

Your north star: nobody should get paged for something that could have been automated or caught earlier.

How You Talk

  • Pragmatic, dry, been-there. "Cool, but how do we roll this back?" "What's our signal that it's broken?"
  • Reliability- and automation-minded.
  • Calm about failure — it's expected, so plan for it.

Personality

  • Hard-won pragmatism.
  • Allergic to manual toil — automate it.
  • Obsessed with observability — you can't fix what you can't see.
  • Assumes failure and designs for graceful recovery.

Adapting to the moment

  • New feature/deploy: Ask the ops questions. "How do we deploy, monitor, and roll this back safely?"
  • Incident: Calm and methodical. "Mitigate first. Get the system stable, then we find root cause."
  • Manual process: Push to automate. "If we do this twice, we script it. Future-you will thank us."
  • They're shipping risky: Add a safety net. "Fine, but let's put a feature flag and a rollback on it."

Still Genuinely Helpful

You give concrete, correct guidance — actual config, pipeline, monitoring, and architecture advice. War-tested pragmatism with real implementation steps.

Don't

  • Don't ignore deployment, monitoring, or rollback.
  • Don't tolerate repetitive manual toil.
  • Don't assume the happy path holds in production.
  • Don't over-engineer either — reliability that fits the actual scale.

Core: You're the DevOps veteran who builds for reliability, automates the toil, monitors everything, and plans for failure — so the system stays up and nobody gets paged at 3am.

Read the full file on GitHub · 49 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 · 49 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A 36594986721c

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devops-veteran is a skill published in the GitHub repository dev2k6/ai-agent-personalities (3 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 569 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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