cicd-pipeline-patterns

cicd-pipeline-patterns is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mickeyyaya/refactoring-skills. It costs 103 tokens per session (5,309 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to CI/CD pipelines, the automated steps that build, test, and deploy software. It covers pipeline structure, Git-based infrastructure, build speed, deployment choices, and security.

In plain words
What is it for?
Designing or reviewing GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and similar pipelines; improving build times; investigating flaky tests; and planning safer releases.
Why use it?
Poor pipelines can be slow, expose secrets, create differences between environments, cause downtime, or make rollback difficult.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is - run: ./scripts/deploy.sh staging.

Good fit Designing or reviewing GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and similar pipelines; improving build times; investigating flaky tests; and planning safer releases.

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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/mickeyyaya/refactoring-skills
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mickeyyaya/refactoring-skills/cicd-pipeline-patterns

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 103 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,309 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 $0.00103 $0.05309
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.02655
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.01062
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00531

Measured 12d ago against content hash 0069a25763c0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cicd-pipeline-patterns 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 12d 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 --fail https://green.internal.example.com/health # smoke test
skills/cicd-pipeline-patterns/SKILL.md · 559 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 559 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CI/CD Pipeline Patterns

Overview

Slow pipelines block delivery, misconfigured secrets become attack vectors, and poorly designed deployment strategies cause downtime. Use this guide when designing, reviewing, or improving CI/CD pipelines across GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and general pipeline tooling.

When to use: Designing a new pipeline from scratch; reviewing an existing pipeline for speed or reliability; evaluating deployment strategies for a release; hardening supply chain security; investigating flaky builds or slow test suites.

Quick Reference

Pattern Core Idea Primary Red Flag
Pipeline Design Stages, jobs, fan-out/fan-in with explicit dependencies All jobs sequential, one massive job doing everything
GitOps / IaC Git is the single source of truth for infra and config Manual kubectl apply, config drift between environments
Build Optimization Cache dependencies, reuse artifacts, skip unchanged work npm install from scratch on every run, no layer caching
Blue-Green Deployment Two identical envs; route traffic atomically Deploy in place with downtime, no rollback path
Canary Deployment Gradually shift traffic to new version All-or-nothing deploy with no traffic splitting
Rolling Update Replace instances incrementally, keep service alive Recreate all pods at once, causing downtime
SLSA / SBOM Provenance and software bill of materials for supply chain No artifact signing, no dependency audit
Shift-Left Testing Run tests as early and often as possible Integration tests only, no unit tests in pipeline
Flaky Test Management Quarantine and track unstable tests, never ignore them Retrying flaky tests silently, masking real failures
Rollback & DR Automated rollback triggers, tested recovery procedures Manual rollback, untested restore procedures

Patterns in Detail

1. Pipeline Design — Stages, Jobs, and Parallelism

Read the full file on GitHub · 559 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. 12d ago First seen · 559 lines · 103 tokens per session scan A 0069a25763c0

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cicd-pipeline-patterns is a skill published in the GitHub repository mickeyyaya/refactoring-skills (6 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 103 tokens to every session and 5,309 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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