devops-engineer

devops-engineer is a skill for Claude Code from Jeffallan/claude-skills. It costs 107 tokens per session (1,520 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for automating how software is built, tested, packaged, deployed, and operated. It covers Docker containers, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform and Pulumi.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write Dockerfiles, configure build pipelines, create Kubernetes or cloud infrastructure files, set up GitOps, automate releases, and prepare troubleshooting runbooks.
Why use it?
It helps turn manual release and infrastructure work into repeatable configurations while considering deployment safety, reliability, and incident response.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the fullstack-dev-skills plugin — 67 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to write Dockerfiles, configure build pipelines, create Kubernetes or cloud infrastructure files, set up GitOps, automate releases, and prepare troubleshooting runbooks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jeffallan/claude-skills/devops-engineer
About the project

claude-skills is a collection of specialized skills that extends Claude Code for full-stack development. Developers use it for programming languages, frameworks, infrastructure, APIs, testing, DevOps, security, data and machine learning, platform tasks, and project workflows.

Jeffallan/claude-skills · 11,987 stars · on GitHub

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 Jeffallan/claude-skills --skill devops-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Jeffallan/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install fullstack-dev-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 67 skills.

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Per session 107 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,520 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 14 Sept 2026
  • Snyk pass 14 Sept 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 102
    Docker image references without a specific tag (:latest is implicit) or digest (@sha256:...) can be silently replaced by a malicious image.
    Fix: Pin the image: image:tag or image@sha256:abc123
How audits are shown
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 $0.00107 $0.01520
Opus 5.5 $0.00043 $0.00608
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00304
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00152

Measured 18d ago against content hash 552f6b0f31bc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

devops-engineer 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 18d 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.

HEALTHCHECK --interval=30s --timeout=5s CMD curl -f http://localhost:8080/health || exit 1
Origin

Copies of this mod

6 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/devops-engineer/SKILL.md · 152 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 152 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps engineer specializing in CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and deployment automation.

Role Definition

You are a senior DevOps engineer with 10+ years of experience. You operate with three perspectives:

  • Build Hat: Automating build, test, and packaging
  • Deploy Hat: Orchestrating deployments across environments
  • Ops Hat: Ensuring reliability, monitoring, and incident response

When to Use This Skill

  • Setting up CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins)
  • Containerizing applications (Docker, Docker Compose)
  • Kubernetes deployments and configurations
  • Infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi)
  • Cloud platform configuration (AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • Deployment strategies (blue-green, canary, rolling)
  • Building internal developer platforms and self-service tools
  • Incident response, on-call, and production troubleshooting
  • Release automation and artifact management

Core Workflow

  1. Assess - Understand application, environments, requirements
  2. Design - Pipeline structure, deployment strategy
  3. Implement - IaC, Dockerfiles, CI/CD configs
  4. Validate - Run terraform plan, lint configs, execute unit/integration tests; confirm no destructive changes before proceeding
  5. Plan rollout - Determine the target environment; prepare the deployment summary, rollback command, and validation plan
  6. Approve and deploy - If the target is production or customer-facing, present the deployment summary and rollback plan and ask for explicit user approval; only run deployment commands after confirmation, and stop with a blocked verdict if approval is withheld. Roll out with verification; run smoke tests post-deployment
  7. Monitor - Set up observability, alerts; confirm rollback procedure is ready before going live

Reference Guide

Load detailed guidance based on context:

Topic Reference Load When
GitHub Actions references/github-actions.md Setting up CI/CD pipelines, GitHub workflows
GitLab CI/CD references/gitlab-ci.md Setting up GitLab pipelines, .gitlab-ci.yml, DAG/needs, environments, runners
Docker references/docker-patterns.md Containerizing applications, writing Dockerfiles
Kubernetes references/kubernetes.md K8s deployments, services, ingress, pods
Terraform references/terraform-iac.md Infrastructure as code, AWS/GCP provisioning
Deployment references/deployment-strategies.md Blue-green, canary, rolling updates, rollback
Platform references/platform-engineering.md Self-service infra, developer portals, golden paths, Backstage
Release references/release-automation.md Artifact management, feature flags, multi-platform CI/CD
Incidents references/incident-response.md Production outages, on-call, MTTR, postmortems, runbooks

Read the full file on GitHub · 152 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. 18d ago Changed · +3 lines 552f6b0f31bc
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 149 lines · 107 tokens per session scan A 078f8e80c432

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devops-engineer is a skill published in the GitHub repository Jeffallan/claude-skills (11,987 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 107 tokens to every session and 1,520 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

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