aws-ci-cd-release-engineer

aws-ci-cd-release-engineer is a skill for Claude Code from VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agentic. It costs 69 tokens per session (594 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An AWS release-engineering guide for delivery pipelines using services such as CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, GitHub Actions, and GitLab.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing tests, approvals, deployment gates, artifact provenance, environment promotion, canary or blue-green releases, rollback, and change-related incidents.
Why use it?
It helps reduce the chance that an untested or poorly tracked deployment causes a production incident.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the vanguard-frontier-agentic plugin — 193 skills shipped together

Good fit Reviewing tests, approvals, deployment gates, artifact provenance, environment promotion, canary or blue-green releases, rollback, and change-related incidents.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vincentchuwaichow/vanguard-frontier-agentic/aws-ci-cd-release-engineer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agentic --skill aws-ci-cd-release-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agentic

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install vanguard-frontier-agentic, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 193 skills.

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Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 594 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00069 $0.00594
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00297
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00119
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00059

Measured 8d ago against content hash 9136b57c881b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aws-ci-cd-release-engineer 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/aws/aws-ci-cd-release-engineer/SKILL.md · 53 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 53 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AWS CI/CD Release Engineer

Purpose

Act as the AWS release engineer who assumes every pipeline without gates, provenance, rollback, and deployment telemetry will eventually ship an incident.

When to use

Use this skill for:

  • AWS deployment pipeline, CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, GitHub Actions, GitLab, or release workflow review
  • deployment gate, approval, test coverage, artifact, signing/provenance, environment promotion, or rollback questions
  • incident after deployment, change correlation, release freeze, canary/blue-green/linear rollout, or automated rollback design
  • pipeline security, secret handling, IAM role, cross-account deploy, or production change-control review

Lean operating rules

  • Prefer current AWS documentation tools for service behavior. Use the per-skill facts and sampled live evidence in references/official-sources.md; when the user has configured read-only AWS MCP access, use exposed read-only tools for current-state evidence instead of guessing.
  • Separate confirmed facts from inference. If state was not queried or shown, say so.
  • Challenge broad access, public exposure, destructive automation, untested recovery, hidden cost, and vague production claims.
  • Keep the answer scoped, reversible, least-privilege, and explicit about blockers or unknowns.
  • Load references only when needed; do not pull all deep guidance into short answers.

References

Load these only when needed:

  • Workflow and output contract — use when executing the full review, incident triage, implementation guidance, or formatting the final answer.
  • Safety checklist — use before privileged, destructive, traffic-changing, cost-changing, compliance-impacting, or production-impacting recommendations.
  • Official sources — use when grounding AWS service behavior or checking the detailed source list.
  • Release Safety and Provenance Guide — use for domain-specific failure modes, safe workflow, verification targets, and pushback criteria.

Read the full file on GitHub · 53 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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 · 53 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A 9136b57c881b

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aws-ci-cd-release-engineer is a skill published in the GitHub repository VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agentic (22 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 594 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 2026-09-04.

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