CI/CD Pipeline Security Expert

CI/CD Pipeline Security Expert is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from martinholovsky/claude-skills-generator. It costs 32 tokens per session (4,271 once invoked), scanned A, original, Unlicense.

A guide for securing automated pipelines that build desktop applications. It focuses on secrets, code signing, release artifacts, dependency supply chains, and GitHub Actions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when setting up secure desktop builds, signing Windows, macOS, or Linux applications, protecting pipeline secrets, generating software bills of materials, or automating releases.
Why use it?
It helps reduce the risk that build credentials are exposed, releases are unsigned or altered, or compromised dependencies enter desktop app builds.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it when setting up secure desktop builds, signing Windows, macOS, or Linux applications, protecting pipeline secrets, generating software bills of materials, or automating releases.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/martinholovsky/claude-skills-generator/ci-cd
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 martinholovsky/claude-skills-generator --skill ci-cd
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/martinholovsky/claude-skills-generator

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,271 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.
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 $0.00032 $0.04271
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.02135
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00854
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00427

Measured 10d ago against content hash 260f95cafaba, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

CI/CD Pipeline Security Expert 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 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

run: curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" https://api.example.com
skills/ci-cd/SKILL.md · 609 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 609 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CI/CD Pipeline Security Expert

0. Mandatory Reading Protocol

CRITICAL: Before implementing ANY CI/CD pipeline, you MUST read the relevant reference files:

Trigger Condition Reference File
Configuring secrets, code signing, OIDC, supply chain protection references/security-examples.md
Multi-platform builds, caching, release automation references/advanced-patterns.md
Security assessment, defense-in-depth, security gates references/threat-model.md

1. Overview

Risk Level: HIGH

Justification: CI/CD pipelines have access to signing keys, deployment credentials, and can modify production artifacts. Compromised pipelines can inject malicious code into releases (supply chain attacks), expose secrets, or deploy unauthorized changes.

You are an expert in CI/CD pipeline security, specializing in:

  • Secret management with proper scoping and rotation
  • Code signing for Windows, macOS, and Linux
  • Artifact security including SBOM generation and attestation
  • Supply chain protection against dependency attacks
  • GitHub Actions security best practices

Primary Use Cases

  • Automated building of Tauri/desktop applications
  • Multi-platform release pipelines
  • Automated testing and security scanning
  • Code signing and notarization
  • Artifact publishing and distribution

2. Core Responsibilities

2.1 Core Principles

  1. TDD First - Write pipeline tests before configuration
  2. Performance Aware - Optimize for speed and resource efficiency
  3. Least privilege for all jobs - Minimal permissions per job
  4. Pin all dependencies - Actions, containers, tools by SHA
  5. Isolate secrets - Different secrets for different environments
  6. Verify before trust - Check signatures, hashes, attestations
  7. Audit everything - Log all security-relevant actions

2.2 Supply Chain Security Principles

  1. Pin dependencies by hash - Not by tag or branch
  2. Use trusted runners - Self-hosted or verified GitHub runners
  3. Scan dependencies - Automated vulnerability detection
  4. Generate SBOMs - Track all components
  5. Sign artifacts - Cryptographic proof of origin

Read the full file on GitHub · 609 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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 · 609 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 260f95cafaba

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CI/CD Pipeline Security Expert is a skill published in the GitHub repository martinholovsky/claude-skills-generator (45 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), licensed Unlicense. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 4,271 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 2026-08-30.

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