developing-pipelines

developing-pipelines is a skill for Claude Code from technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins. It costs 44 tokens per session (2,023 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for creating, changing, and debugging Buildkite pipeline YAML files. Buildkite is a service that runs automated build, test, and deployment jobs.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps write pipeline files, dynamic pipelines, job dependencies, stored build files called artifacts, parallel jobs, and Buildkite plugins.
Why use it?
It reduces mistakes caused by outdated or deprecated Buildkite syntax by checking the current official documentation and validating configurations.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the buildkite plugin — 2 skills shipped together

Good fit It helps write pipeline files, dynamic pipelines, job dependencies, stored build files called artifacts, parallel jobs, and Buildkite plugins.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins/developing-pipelines
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 technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins --skill developing-pipelines
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install buildkite, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,023 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: 6 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 170
    Docker image references without a specific tag (:latest is implicit) or digest (@sha256:...) can be silently replaced by a malicious image.
    Fix: Pin the image: image:tag or image@sha256:abc123
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 178
    Docker image references without a specific tag (:latest is implicit) or digest (@sha256:...) can be silently replaced by a malicious image.
    Fix: Pin the image: image:tag or image@sha256:abc123
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 215
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 258
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 249
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 257
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00044 $0.02023
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00809
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00405
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00202

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 844ef2e7d865, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

developing-pipelines 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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (update-docs.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

plugins/buildkite/skills/developing-pipelines/SKILL.md · 264 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 264 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Developing Buildkite Pipelines

Overview

Reference official Buildkite documentation before making pipeline changes. Your training data may contain outdated syntax, deprecated patterns, or missing features.

When to Use

Use this skill when:

  • Writing or modifying pipeline.yml files
  • Creating dynamic pipelines
  • Debugging pipeline configuration errors
  • Adding new step types (command, trigger, block, wait)
  • Configuring dependencies, artifacts, or parallelism
  • Setting up Buildkite plugins
  • Configuring or debugging Buildkite plugins

Do NOT use for:

  • Checking build status (use buildkite-status skill)
  • General CI/CD concepts (language-agnostic advice)

The Iron Rule

NEVER propose Buildkite YAML without consulting the reference docs.

Detecting buildkite-builder

Check for buildkite-builder usage before proceeding:

buildkite-builder is detected when BOTH conditions are true:

  1. .buildkite/pipeline.yml references Docker image containing "buildkite-builder"
  2. Pipeline Ruby files exist: .buildkite/pipeline.rb OR .buildkite/pipelines/*/pipeline.rb

When detected, announce:

"I see you're using buildkite-builder for dynamic pipeline generation. I'll work with your pipeline.rb files and reference the Ruby DSL."

Then load buildkite-builder reference documentation as needed.

Working with Plugins

Before Modifying Plugin Configuration

When editing pipeline steps that use plugins:

  1. Identify plugins - Note all plugins: entries in the step
  2. Determine source:
    • Default org buildkite-plugins if no org specified
    • Parse explicit org from {org}/{plugin}#version format
  3. Load documentation:
    • Cached: Check references/plugins/{plugin-name}.md
    • Official (not cached): Fetch from Buildkite directory or GitHub
    • Internal: Fetch README from github.com/{org}/{plugin}-buildkite-plugin
  4. Match versions - If pipeline specifies version, fetch that version's docs from GitHub tag

Read the full file on GitHub · 264 lines

Files

What ships with it

47 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. 1mo ago First seen · 264 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 844ef2e7d865

Subscribe to this mod's changes

developing-pipelines is a skill published in the GitHub repository technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins (11 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 2,023 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-31.

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