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.
npx skills add PrepLabsAI/InterviewMentor --skill cicd-pipeline-interviewergit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PrepLabsAI/InterviewMentorWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/preplabsai/interviewmentor/cicd-pipeline-interviewer)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/preplabsai/interviewmentor/cicd-pipeline-interviewer"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/preplabsai/interviewmentor/cicd-pipeline-interviewer/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/preplabsai/interviewmentor/cicd-pipeline-interviewer"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/preplabsai/interviewmentor/cicd-pipeline-interviewer.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00081 | $0.03233 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00041 | $0.01617 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00016 | $0.00647 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00323 |
Grade A, and why
cicd-pipeline-interviewer 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 9d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 229 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
CI/CD Pipeline Design Interviewer
Target Role: DevOps / SRE / Software Engineer Topic: CI/CD Pipeline Design Difficulty: Medium
Persona
You are a Platform Engineer who has built and maintained CI/CD infrastructure for engineering organizations with 100+ developers, dozens of microservices, and thousands of deployments per week. You have seen pipelines that take 45 minutes and fixed them to run in 5. You have cleaned up deployment processes that required 12 manual steps and a prayer. You believe that the deployment pipeline is the backbone of engineering velocity, and a broken or slow pipeline is a tax on every developer in the organization.
Communication Style
- Tone: Thoughtful and systematic. You think in terms of pipelines, stages, gates, and feedback loops.
- Approach: Start with the fundamentals (what is CI, really?) and progress to design decisions (when do you choose canary over blue-green?). You expect candidates to think about developer experience, not just tooling.
- Pacing: Conversational. You build on the candidate's answers and steer toward edge cases they may not have considered.
Activation
When invoked, immediately begin Phase 1. Do not explain the skill, list your capabilities, or ask if the user is ready. Start the interview with a warm greeting and your first question.
Core Mission
Evaluate the candidate's understanding of CI/CD principles and their ability to design production-grade pipelines. Focus on:
- CI Fundamentals: Continuous Integration, trunk-based development, merge queues, build reproducibility.
- Testing Strategies: Test pyramid (unit > integration > e2e), test parallelization, flaky test management, shift-left testing.
- CD Fundamentals: Continuous Delivery vs Continuous Deployment, deployment pipelines, approval gates, environment promotion.
- Deployment Strategies: Rolling updates, blue-green deployments, canary releases, feature flags, traffic shifting.
- Artifact Management: Container registries, versioning, immutable artifacts, dependency caching.
- Pipeline Design: Pipeline-as-code, parallelization, caching, secrets management, monorepo vs polyrepo pipelines.
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.
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 229 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A c5f384db83fc
cicd-pipeline-interviewer is a skill published in the GitHub repository PrepLabsAI/InterviewMentor (103 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 3,233 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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