aws-codepipeline-and-codedeploy

aws-codepipeline-and-codedeploy is a skill for Claude Code from selvarajmurugesan90/ops-engineering-skills. It costs 101 tokens per session (3,912 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for connecting AWS CodePipeline, which coordinates release steps, with CodeDeploy, which installs an application on EC2, ECS, or Lambda. It also covers the appspec.yml file that defines deployment hooks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to set up a CodePipeline deployment, write or debug appspec.yml hooks, configure deployment groups, and choose in-place or blue/green releases.
Why use it?
It helps keep release stages and deployment actions in the correct order and makes deployment-hook failures easier to diagnose.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex; mentions Gemini CLI.

Part of the cicd-tooling-skills plugin — 13 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to set up a CodePipeline deployment, write or debug appspec.yml hooks, configure deployment groups, and choose in-place or blue/green releases.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/selvarajmurugesan90/ops-engineering-skills/aws-codepipeline-and-codedeploy
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Any agent
npx skills add selvarajmurugesan90/ops-engineering-skills --skill aws-codepipeline-and-codedeploy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/selvarajmurugesan90/ops-engineering-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cicd-tooling-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills.

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Per session 101 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,912 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 4 findings, up to medium

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    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
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Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.01956
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00782
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00391

Measured 9d ago against content hash 41298002d099, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aws-codepipeline-and-codedeploy 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.

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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.

plugins/cicd-tooling/skills/aws-codepipeline-and-codedeploy/SKILL.md · 376 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 376 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AWS CodePipeline and CodeDeploy

Purpose

AWS CodePipeline orchestrates a release as a sequence of stages, each containing one or more actions (source, build, test, approval, deploy) that can run in parallel within a stage, while CodeDeploy handles the actual deployment mechanics — rolling out a new revision to EC2/on-prem instances, an ECS service, or a Lambda function according to a deployment group's configuration and an appspec.yml's lifecycle hooks. This skill covers the CodePipeline stage/action JSON/YAML structure and how it integrates with CodeDeploy specifically — not the generic pipeline-design concepts covered in ci-cd-pipeline-design, which apply here too but aren't repeated.

When to use

  • Standing up a new CodePipeline for an application already built elsewhere (or with a CodeBuild stage) that needs to deploy via CodeDeploy.
  • Writing or debugging an appspec.yml whose lifecycle hooks (BeforeInstall, AfterInstall, ApplicationStart, ValidateService) aren't firing in the expected order, or a hook script exits non-zero.
  • Configuring a CodeDeploy deployment group's deployment configuration (in-place vs. blue/green, CodeDeployDefault.OneAtATime vs. percentage- based) for EC2/on-prem, or the equivalent ECS/Lambda traffic-shifting options.
  • Adding a manual approval action to a CodePipeline before a production deploy stage.
  • Diagnosing a CodePipeline execution stuck or failed at a specific stage/ action, or a CodeDeploy deployment that failed a lifecycle hook or health check.

Prerequisites & environment

  • An AWS account with IAM permissions to create/manage CodePipeline pipelines, CodeDeploy applications/deployment groups, and (for EC2/on- prem deploys) an IAM instance profile on target instances allowing the CodeDeploy agent to pull deployment bundles from S3.
  • The CodeDeploy agent installed and running on target EC2/on-prem instances (not needed for ECS or Lambda deployment types, which use CodeDeploy's native integration instead).
  • A CodePipeline service role with permission to invoke each stage's action provider (CodeCommit/GitHub/S3 for source, CodeBuild for build, CodeDeploy for deploy) — least-privilege scoped per action, not a single account-wide admin role.
  • An S3 artifact bucket (CodePipeline's default artifact store, or a specified one) that all pipeline stages can read/write to pass build output between stages.
  • For blue/green EC2 deployments: an Elastic Load Balancer (ALB/CLB) already provisioned and referenced in the deployment group config.

Read the full file on GitHub · 376 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. 9d ago First seen · 376 lines · 101 tokens per session scan A 41298002d099

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aws-codepipeline-and-codedeploy is a skill published in the GitHub repository selvarajmurugesan90/ops-engineering-skills (38 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 101 tokens to every session and 3,912 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.