unified-cicd-platform

unified-cicd-platform is a skill for Claude Code from oborchers/fractional-cto. It costs 104 tokens per session (2,904 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to choosing and organizing one continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) platform for application and infrastructure work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when choosing a CI/CD provider, moving between providers, combining pipelines, detecting infrastructure drift, or setting up identity-based authentication.
Why use it?
Using several pipeline systems means learning different configuration, secrets, logs, and troubleshooting processes. Consolidating them reduces that operational overhead.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the cloud-foundation-principles plugin — 16 skills, 1 command, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it when choosing a CI/CD provider, moving between providers, combining pipelines, detecting infrastructure drift, or setting up identity-based authentication.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/oborchers/fractional-cto/unified-cicd-platform
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 oborchers/fractional-cto --skill unified-cicd-platform
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oborchers/fractional-cto

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cloud-foundation-principles, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 1 command, 1 agent.

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Per session 104 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,904 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 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 $0.00104 $0.02904
Opus 5 $0.00052 $0.01452
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00581
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00290

Measured 12d ago against content hash bde6a3ea3b7c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

unified-cicd-platform 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 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.

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.

cloud-foundation-principles/skills/unified-cicd-platform/SKILL.md · 213 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 213 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

One CI/CD Platform for Everything, or Pay the Tax Forever

Running CircleCI for application builds, GitLab CI for infrastructure pipelines, and GitHub Actions for deployments is an operational tax that compounds daily. Every platform has different YAML syntax, different secrets management, different caching mechanisms, different debugging workflows, and different monitoring dashboards. Engineers carry three mental models instead of one. During incidents -- when context-switching costs are highest -- crossing platform boundaries wastes critical minutes. A deployment failed. Which platform ran it? Where are the logs? How do you re-trigger it? The answer changes depending on which system was responsible.

This is not a theoretical concern. Teams that have lived through multi-platform CI/CD report the same pattern: initial adoption is easy (each tool does its job), but maintenance becomes a death spiral. Secret rotation requires updating three platforms. A new engineer must learn three systems. Pipeline debugging requires three browser tabs with three different log viewers. The consolidation from three providers to one is consistently described as one of the highest-impact operational improvements a team can make.

The Cost of Multi-Platform CI/CD

Dimension Single Platform Multiple Platforms
Syntax to learn One YAML dialect 2-3 incompatible dialects
Secrets management One secrets store Secrets duplicated across platforms, rotation requires N updates
Debugging One log viewer, one interface Context-switch between platforms to trace a deployment
Monitoring One dashboard for all pipelines Separate monitoring per platform, gaps between them
OIDC setup One trust relationship per cloud account One trust relationship per platform per account
Onboarding "Here is how our CI/CD works" "It depends on which repo and which kind of pipeline"
Incident response One place to check "Which platform ran the failing deployment?"
Runner management One pool of runners Separate runner infrastructure per platform
Cost visibility One bill Multiple vendor bills, hard to compare
Migration effort Already consolidated Every consolidation is a multi-week project

Read the full file on GitHub · 213 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. 12d ago First seen · 213 lines · 104 tokens per session scan A bde6a3ea3b7c

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unified-cicd-platform is a skill published in the GitHub repository oborchers/fractional-cto (30 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 104 tokens to every session and 2,904 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-30.

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