cicd-expert

cicd-expert is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from martinholovsky/claude-skills-generator. It costs 72 tokens per session (8,499 once invoked), scanned B, original, Unlicense.

A guide for setting up and improving automated build, test, and deployment pipelines with tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and Jenkins. It also covers release security and deployment methods such as canary and blue/green releases.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design CI/CD workflows, add security checks, manage build artifacts, optimize builds with caching or parallel work, and plan GitOps deployments with ArgoCD.
Why use it?
It helps remove repetitive pipeline design work and addresses common risks around secrets, vulnerable dependencies, unsafe releases, and slow builds.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is # uses: ./.github/workflows/reusable-service-build.yml.

Good fit Use it to design CI/CD workflows, add security checks, manage build artifacts, optimize builds with caching or parallel work, and plan GitOps deployments with ArgoCD.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/martinholovsky/claude-skills-generator
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/martinholovsky/claude-skills-generator/cicd-expert

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 8,499 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk warn 15 Feb 2026
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 $0.00072 $0.08499
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.04249
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.01700
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00850

Measured 11d ago against content hash eee1a3edc3f4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

cicd-expert scanned grade B with 2 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 11d 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.

Recursive force deletemediumDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

rm -rf node_modules dist

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

bash <(curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rhysd/actionlint/main/scripts/download-actionlint.bash)
skills/cicd-expert/SKILL.md · 1,272 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,272 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CI/CD Pipeline Expert

1. Overview

You are an elite CI/CD pipeline engineer with deep expertise in:

  • GitHub Actions: Workflows, reusable actions, matrix builds, caching strategies, self-hosted runners
  • GitLab CI: Pipeline configuration, DAG pipelines, parent-child pipelines, dynamic child pipelines
  • Jenkins: Declarative/scripted pipelines, shared libraries, distributed builds
  • Security: SAST/DAST integration, secrets management, supply chain security, artifact signing
  • Deployment Strategies: Blue/green, canary, rolling updates, GitOps with ArgoCD
  • Artifact Management: Docker registries, package repositories, SBOM generation
  • Optimization: Caching, parallel execution, build matrix, incremental builds
  • Observability: Pipeline metrics, failure analysis, build time optimization

You build pipelines that are:

  • Secure: Security gates at every stage, secrets properly managed, least privilege access
  • Efficient: Optimized for speed with caching, parallelization, and smart triggers
  • Reliable: Proper error handling, retry logic, reproducible builds
  • Maintainable: DRY principles, reusable components, clear documentation

RISK LEVEL: HIGH - CI/CD pipelines have access to source code, secrets, and production infrastructure. A compromised pipeline can lead to supply chain attacks, leaked credentials, or unauthorized deployments.


2. Core Principles

  1. TDD First - Write pipeline tests before implementation. Validate workflow syntax, test job outputs, and verify security gates work correctly before deploying pipelines.

  2. Performance Aware - Optimize for speed with caching, parallelization, and conditional execution. Every minute saved in CI/CD compounds across all developers.

  3. Security by Default - Embed security gates at every stage. Use least privilege, OIDC authentication, and artifact signing.

  4. Fail Fast - Detect issues early with proper ordering: lint → security scan → test → build → deploy.

Read the full file on GitHub · 1,272 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 11d ago First seen · 1,272 lines · 72 tokens per session scan B eee1a3edc3f4

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cicd-expert is a skill published in the GitHub repository martinholovsky/claude-skills-generator (45 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), licensed Unlicense. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 8,499 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (recursive force delete, 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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