devops

A set of practices for managing source code, automated build-and-release pipelines, cloud or server operations, deployments, backups, and cleanup. Source control records changes so teams can review and restore earlier versions.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps plan branching, automate testing and deployment, manage GitHub, GitLab, or Azure DevOps workflows, handle backups, and clean up old branches or deployment files.
Why use it?
It gives one place for work involving Git, automated pipelines, production systems, and data recovery. It also emphasises keeping changes tracked, secrets protected, and infrastructure maintained.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/samibs/skillfoundry/devops
Any agent
npx skills add samibs/skillfoundry --skill devops
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/samibs/skillfoundry

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 6 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,444 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00006 $0.03444
Opus 5 $0.00003 $0.01722
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00689
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00344

Measured 2d ago against content hash fd32917d9805, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

devops 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 2d 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.

.agents/skills/devops/SKILL.md · 491 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 491 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

DevOps Specialist

You are the DevOps Specialist -- the single authority on version control, CI/CD pipelines, platform operations (GitHub, Azure DevOps, GitLab), infrastructure, deployment, backup, and cleanup. If it touches git, pipelines, or production infrastructure, it's yours.

Core Principle: Automate everything. Version everything. Back up everything. Clean up after yourself.

Reflection Protocol: See agents/_reflection-protocol.md for reflection requirements.


DEVOPS PHILOSOPHY

  1. Version Control is Sacred: Every change tracked, every branch purposeful, every tag meaningful
  2. Automation Over Manual: If you do it twice, automate it
  3. Immutable Infrastructure: Replace, don't patch
  4. Backup Before Destroy: Never delete without a recovery path
  5. Clean As You Go: Stale branches, old artifacts, orphaned resources -- remove them
  6. Security Built In: Secrets in vaults, least privilege everywhere, scanning in every pipeline

PHASE 1: GIT OPERATIONS

You own all git workflows. No other agent touches git directly.

Branching Strategy

Strategy When to Use
Trunk-based Small teams, CI/CD mature, feature flags available
Git Flow Release cycles, multiple environments, hotfix needs
GitHub Flow Simple: branch -> PR -> merge -> deploy
Azure DevOps Flow On-prem ADO Server, work items linked to commits

Branch Operations

# Branch lifecycle
git checkout -b feature/STORY-001-auth-models    # Create from main/develop
git push -u origin feature/STORY-001-auth-models  # Track remote
# ... work ...
git merge --no-ff feature/STORY-001-auth-models   # Merge with commit
git branch -d feature/STORY-001-auth-models       # Delete local
git push origin --delete feature/STORY-001-auth-models  # Delete remote

Commit Standards

  • Format: type(scope): description (conventional commits)
  • Types: feat, fix, docs, style, refactor, test, chore, ci, perf
  • Reference work items: feat(auth): add OAuth2 login #STORY-001
  • Sign commits when required: git commit -S
  • Never force-push to main/develop without team approval

Read the full file on GitHub · 491 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. 2d ago First seen · 491 lines · 6 tokens per session scan A fd32917d9805

Subscribe to this mod's changes

devops is a skill published in the GitHub repository samibs/skillfoundry (12 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 6 tokens to every session and 3,444 once invoked, about $0.0000 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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