cicd-setup

cicd-setup is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from shawnpang/startup-founder-skills. It costs 53 tokens per session (1,592 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for setting up and improving CI/CD, the automated checks and delivery steps that run when code changes. It supports GitHub Actions and GitLab CI for testing, building, and deploying software.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create CI from scratch, add tests, automate deployments, move between GitHub Actions and GitLab CI, review pipeline stages, and improve speed with caching, parallel work, or conditional steps.
Why use it?
It helps create a pipeline that matches the project's actual language, framework, package manager, tests, and deployment target instead of relying on copied settings. It can also address slow or unreliable builds.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to create CI from scratch, add tests, automate deployments, move between GitHub Actions and GitLab CI, review pipeline stages, and improve speed with caching, parallel work, or conditional steps.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/shawnpang/startup-founder-skills/cicd-setup
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 shawnpang/startup-founder-skills --skill cicd-setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shawnpang/startup-founder-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,592 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.
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 $0.00053 $0.01592
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00796
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00318
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00159

Measured 12d ago against content hash 2f82ce4aa917, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cicd-setup 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/cicd-setup/SKILL.md · 151 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 151 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CI/CD Setup

When to Use

  • Setting up CI for a new project from scratch
  • Replacing unreliable copied pipeline configurations that do not match the actual stack
  • Transitioning between GitHub Actions and GitLab CI platforms
  • Reviewing whether pipeline stages align with actual project tooling
  • Optimizing slow builds (caching, parallelism, conditional steps)
  • Establishing a stable CI foundation before adding specialized hardening

Context Required

From startup-context: tech stack, deployment target, team size. Also detect or ask:

  • Language and framework (auto-detect from repo files before asking)
  • Deployment target (Vercel, AWS, GCP, Fly.io, etc.)
  • CI/CD platform (default: GitHub Actions; also supports GitLab CI)
  • Environments (dev, staging, production) and existing test coverage
  • Secrets and credentials needed for build or deploy

Workflow

  1. Detect stack from repo signals — Scan for lockfiles (package-lock.json, yarn.lock, poetry.lock, go.sum, Cargo.lock), language manifests (package.json, pyproject.toml, go.mod), and script definitions (test, lint, build commands). Lockfiles indicate package manager choice. Absent scripts trigger conservative defaults. Never assume Node for a Python project.
  2. Choose pipeline stages — Start with a dependable baseline: checkout, runtime setup, dependency install with caching, then sequential lint, test, build. Only add complexity after the baseline works.
  3. Generate pipeline config — Write CI config for the detected platform. Output machine-readable YAML with correct caching strategy for the detected package manager. Verify all referenced commands actually exist in the project.
  4. Configure secrets — List required secrets and how to add them. Use platform-managed secret stores. Recommend OIDC for cloud auth over long-lived keys. Never hardcode credentials in YAML.
  5. Add deployment stages safely — Begin CI-only (lint/test/build). Add staging deployment with explicit environment info. Add production deployment with manual approval. Maintain transparency in rollout and rollback procedures.
  6. Validate before merge — Confirm generated YAML is syntactically valid, all commands exist in the project, caching aligns with the package manager, and branch protections match organizational requirements.
  7. Deliver config and instructions — Full config file plus setup steps.

Read the full file on GitHub · 151 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 · 151 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 2f82ce4aa917

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cicd-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository shawnpang/startup-founder-skills (321 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 1,592 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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