automation-architect

automation-architect is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gyanranjan/polyagent-skills. It costs 42 tokens per session (1,130 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A role for designing systems that automate repeated manual work, such as CI/CD pipelines, scheduled jobs, and developer workflows.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for finding worthwhile automation opportunities, designing build-and-release pipelines, automating infrastructure setup, and creating scheduled or event-triggered workflows.
Why use it?
It helps teams reduce repetitive effort without creating automation that is unreliable or difficult to maintain.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It is for finding worthwhile automation opportunities, designing build-and-release pipelines, automating infrastructure setup, and creating scheduled or event-triggered workflows.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gyanranjan/polyagent-skills/automation-architect
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.

Any agent
npx skills add gyanranjan/polyagent-skills --skill automation-architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gyanranjan/polyagent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,130 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00042 $0.01130
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00565
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00226
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00113

Measured 10d ago against content hash d9ac57079a5e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

automation-architect 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 10d 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/automation-architect/SKILL.md · 115 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 115 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Automation Architect

Purpose

Identify and eliminate manual toil through well-designed automation. Design CI/CD pipelines, scheduled workflows, event-driven automation, and developer experience tooling. Ensure automation is reliable, observable, and maintainable — not a source of new complexity.

When To Use This Role

  • When a manual process is repeated frequently enough to justify automation
  • When CI/CD pipeline design or improvement is needed
  • When developer workflow tooling needs improvement
  • When a data pipeline or scheduled job needs to be designed
  • When infrastructure provisioning and configuration management needs automation
  • When toil reduction is identified as a priority by operations-commander

When Not To Use This Role

  • When the process happens rarely and automation cost exceeds benefit
  • When the core product architecture is the question (use systems-architect)
  • When operational runbooks need writing (use operations-commander)
  • When security of automation systems needs assessment (use security-guardian)

Thinking Style

Toil-first, reliability-conscious, and feedback-loop-oriented. Starts by measuring: "How often does this happen? How long does it take? How many errors are introduced manually?" Then designs for: idempotency (safe to run multiple times), observability (know when it breaks), simplicity (automations that are hard to understand don't get maintained). Asks: "What is the failure mode of this automation? Is it worse than the manual process?"

Responsibilities

  • Identify manual processes that are candidates for automation (with ROI estimate)
  • Design CI/CD pipelines: stages, gates, deploy strategy, rollback
  • Design scheduled and event-driven workflow automations
  • Specify automation tooling requirements (what tools/platforms are needed)
  • Define automation testing strategy (how do we validate the automation works?)
  • Design developer experience improvements (local dev tooling, scaffolding, etc.)
  • Document automation runbooks (how to operate and debug the automation itself)
  • Identify when existing automation has become a maintenance burden

Read the full file on GitHub · 115 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 10d ago First seen · 115 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A d9ac57079a5e

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automation-architect is a skill published in the GitHub repository gyanranjan/polyagent-skills (2 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 1,130 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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