ci-cd-pipeline-design

ci-cd-pipeline-design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from The-AI-Directory-Company/agents-and-skills. It costs 47 tokens per session (1,635 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A plan for automatically building, testing, and deploying software using services such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or CircleCI.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define triggers, test and build stages, deployment rules, caching, parallel work, environment promotion, and secret handling.
Why use it?
It turns repeated release work into consistent checks and steps, while reducing slow builds and deployment mistakes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to define triggers, test and build stages, deployment rules, caching, parallel work, environment promotion, and secret handling.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add The-AI-Directory-Company/agents-and-skills --skill ci-cd-pipeline-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/The-AI-Directory-Company/agents-and-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,635 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 $0.00047 $0.01635
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00817
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00327
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00163

Measured 8d ago against content hash 8ef00b2fe3f5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ci-cd-pipeline-design 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 8d 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.

skills/ci-cd-pipeline-design/SKILL.md · 160 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 160 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CI/CD Pipeline Design

Before you start

Gather the following from the user:

  1. Which CI/CD platform? (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, or platform-agnostic)
  2. What language/runtime? (Node.js, Python, Go, Java, Rust, multi-language)
  3. What needs to happen? (Lint, test, build, deploy — which of these?)
  4. Where does it deploy? (Vercel, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, static hosting)
  5. What is the branching strategy? (Trunk-based, GitFlow, feature branches)
  6. What is slow today? (If optimizing an existing pipeline, what takes the longest?)

If the user says "set up CI/CD," push back: "For which platform, language, and deployment target? I also need your branching strategy to design the trigger rules."

Procedure

Step 1: Define trigger rules

Map git events to pipeline runs:

# GitHub Actions example
on:
  pull_request:
    branches: [main]          # Run tests on PRs to main
  push:
    branches: [main]          # Deploy on merge to main
    tags: ["v*"]              # Deploy releases on version tags
  workflow_dispatch:           # Manual trigger for ad-hoc runs

Rules:

  • PRs trigger lint + test + build (no deploy)
  • Merge to main triggers lint + test + build + deploy to staging
  • Tags trigger deploy to production
  • Never auto-deploy to production on push to main

Step 2: Design the stage graph

Organize jobs into stages with dependency edges:

[Lint] ──┐
         ├──> [Build] ──> [Deploy Staging] ──> [Smoke Test] ──> [Deploy Prod]
[Test] ──┘

For each stage, document:

Stage Trigger Depends on Timeout Runs on
Lint PR + push None 5 min ubuntu-latest
Test PR + push None 15 min ubuntu-latest
Build PR + push Lint + Test pass 10 min ubuntu-latest
Deploy staging Push to main Build 10 min ubuntu-latest
Smoke test After staging deploy Deploy staging 5 min ubuntu-latest
Deploy prod Tag v* or manual Smoke test pass 10 min ubuntu-latest

Read the full file on GitHub · 160 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 8d ago First seen · 160 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 8ef00b2fe3f5

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ci-cd-pipeline-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository The-AI-Directory-Company/agents-and-skills (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 1,635 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.

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