cicd-pipeline

cicd-pipeline is a skill for Claude Code from timwukp/agent-skills-best-practice. It costs 70 tokens per session (1,828 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for creating CI/CD pipeline configuration files. CI/CD means automatically building, checking, and deploying software when code changes; it supports GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and AWS CodePipeline.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a pipeline for projects in Node.js, Python, Java, Go, or .NET. It can prepare workflows for targets such as AWS ECS, Lambda, Kubernetes, S3 with CloudFront, or Vercel.
Why use it?
It removes the need to assemble build, test, lint, security-check, and deployment steps by hand. It also helps structure caching and parallel work in the pipeline.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the engineering-skills plugin — 18 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to create a pipeline for projects in Node.js, Python, Java, Go, or .NET. It can prepare workflows for targets such as AWS ECS, Lambda, Kubernetes, S3 with CloudFront, or Vercel.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/timwukp/agent-skills-best-practice/cicd-pipeline
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 timwukp/agent-skills-best-practice --skill cicd-pipeline
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/timwukp/agent-skills-best-practice

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install engineering-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills.

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Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,828 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: 3 findings, up to high

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 →

  • high Privilege Escalation · line 244
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 209
    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 Data Exfiltration · line 254
    Data is uploaded to cloud storage (S3 / GCS / Azure Blob). This may be a legitimate backup or exfiltration to an external bucket. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination bucket is trusted and owned by you. Never upload credentials, secrets, or workspace contents to external or unverified cloud storage.
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 $0.00070 $0.01828
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.00914
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00366
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00183

Measured 11d ago against content hash c471def6f9d9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cicd-pipeline 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 11d 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/skills/cicd-pipeline/SKILL.md · 282 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 282 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CI/CD Pipeline

Instructions

Step 1: Gather Requirements

Ask:

  1. What platform? (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, AWS CodePipeline)
  2. What language/framework? (Node.js, Python, Java, Go, .NET)
  3. What stages are needed? (build, test, lint, security scan, deploy)
  4. Deployment targets? (ECS, Lambda, Kubernetes, S3+CloudFront, Vercel)
  5. Branch strategy? (deploy on main push, tag-based releases, environment promotion)

Step 2: GitHub Actions Workflow

Generate a complete workflow file:

name: CI/CD Pipeline

on:
  push:
    branches: [main]
  pull_request:
    branches: [main]

permissions:
  contents: read
  id-token: write

env:
  NODE_VERSION: '20'
  REGISTRY: ghcr.io
  IMAGE_NAME: ${{ github.repository }}

jobs:
  lint:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
        with:
          node-version: ${{ env.NODE_VERSION }}
          cache: 'npm'
      - run: npm ci
      - run: npm run lint
      - run: npm run type-check

  test:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    needs: lint
    services:
      postgres:
        image: postgres:16-alpine
        env:
          POSTGRES_PASSWORD: test
          POSTGRES_DB: testdb
        ports:
          - 5432:5432
        options: >-
          --health-cmd pg_isready
          --health-interval 10s
          --health-timeout 5s
          --health-retries 5
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
        with:
          node-version: ${{ env.NODE_VERSION }}
          cache: 'npm'
      - run: npm ci
      - run: npm test -- --coverage
        env:
          DATABASE_URL: postgres://postgres:test@localhost:5432/testdb
      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
        with:
          name: coverage
          path: coverage/

  security:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    needs: lint
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - run: npm audit --audit-level=high
      - uses: github/codeql-action/init@v3
        with:
          languages: javascript
      - uses: github/codeql-action/analyze@v3

  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    needs: [test, security]
    if: github.ref == 'refs/heads/main'
    outputs:
      image-tag: ${{ steps.meta.outputs.tags }}
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v3
      - uses: docker/login-action@v3
        with:
          registry: ${{ env.REGISTRY }}
          username: ${{ github.actor }}
          password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
      - id: meta
        uses: docker/metadata-action@v5
        with:
          images: ${{ env.REGISTRY }}/${{ env.IMAGE_NAME }}
          tags: |
            type=sha,prefix=
            type=raw,value=latest
      - uses: docker/build-push-action@v5
        with:
          context: .
          push: true
          tags: ${{ steps.meta.outputs.tags }}
          cache-from: type=gha
          cache-to: type=gha,mode=max

  deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    needs: build
    environment: production
    steps:
      - uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v4
        with:
          role-to-arn: ${{ secrets.AWS_ROLE_ARN }}
          aws-region: us-east-1
      - run: |
          aws ecs update-service \
            --cluster production \
            --service app \
            --force-new-deployment

Read the full file on GitHub · 282 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 11d ago First seen · 282 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A c471def6f9d9

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cicd-pipeline is a skill published in the GitHub repository timwukp/agent-skills-best-practice (10 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 1,828 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 2026-08-31.

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