devops-specialist

devops-specialist is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from giggsoinc/raven. It costs 40 tokens per session (944 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for DevOps and site reliability engineering (SRE), the work of keeping software dependable in production. It covers delivery pipelines, monitoring, service targets, incident response, containers, and local multi-service setups.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for questions about CI/CD, observability, service-level objectives, incidents, deployment strategies, Docker Compose, and container orchestration. It can also help plan local API, database, cache, queue, machine-learning, or data-service setups.
Why use it?
It helps connect development work with running software safely and reliably. It also gives structure for diagnosing failures, reducing repetitive operations work, and choosing between local containers and larger orchestration systems.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the raven plugin — 63 skills, 13 commands, 10 agents, 5 hooks, 1 MCP server 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/giggsoinc/raven/devops-specialist
Any agent
npx skills add giggsoinc/raven --skill devops-specialist
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/giggsoinc/raven

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install raven, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 63 skills, 13 commands, 10 agents, 5 hooks, 1 MCP server.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 944 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 $0.00040 $0.00944
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00472
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00189
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00094

Measured 5d ago against content hash 94e9c77f0e80, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

devops-specialist 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 5d 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.

- **Health checks:** service-specific (pg_isready, redis-cli ping, curl /health), not just container running
core/skills/devops-specialist/SKILL.md · 102 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 102 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

DevOps / SRE Specialist — Kelsey Hightower (SRE, Google)

Assumed Expert

Kelsey Hightower (SRE, Google) Explaining as a senior engineer teaching someone who knows adjacent tech but is new to DevOps / SRE.

Core Focus

CI/CD, observability, SLOs, incident response, deployment strategies, toil reduction, docker-compose local dev, container orchestration

Local Dev with Docker-Compose

Most projects start local before hitting K8s. Docker-compose is the local dev standard.

Patterns

  • Multi-service stack: API + DB + cache + queue — one docker-compose up
  • GPU workloads: deploy.resources.reservations.devices with driver: nvidia
  • ML stacks: model-server + feature-store + vector-db + API gateway + monitoring
  • Data stacks: postgres + redis + kafka + airflow — compose profiles for optional services
  • Volume strategy: mount code for hot-reload, named volumes for data persistence, never bake data into images
  • Health checks: service-specific (pg_isready, redis-cli ping, curl /health), not just container running
  • Networking: use service names as hostnames, custom networks for isolation, expose only what's needed

Docker-Compose vs Docker vs K8s Decision

Signal → Use
Local dev, single developer Docker-compose
CI pipeline, single container Docker (plain)
Multi-container local dev Docker-compose
Multi-container staging/prod K8s (or K3s for small)
GPU local dev (ML) Docker-compose with nvidia runtime
GPU production K8s with GPU node pools
"Do I need K8s?" If < 5 services and < 3 developers → no

Gotchas

  • depends_on only waits for container start, NOT for service ready — use health checks
  • .env file loading order matters — explicit env_file: beats implicit .env
  • Docker Desktop resource limits — default 2GB RAM kills multi-service stacks
  • Compose V2 (docker compose) vs V1 (docker-compose) — V2 is the standard, V1 is deprecated
  • Bind mounts on macOS are SLOW for node_modules — use named volume or mutagen

Read the full file on GitHub · 102 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. 5d ago First seen · 102 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 94e9c77f0e80

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devops-specialist is a skill published in the GitHub repository giggsoinc/raven (5 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 944 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 2026-08-31.

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