deployment-pipeline-design

deployment-pipeline-design is a skill for Claude Code from wshobson/agents. It costs 58 tokens per session (1,089 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design guide for multi-stage CI/CD pipelines with approval gates, security checks, environment promotion, and controlled release strategies.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for planning canary and blue-green deployments, zero-downtime releases, automated quality gates, compliance scans, and deployment orchestration.
Why use it?
It helps teams release changes safely across development, staging, and production while supporting checks and rollback planning.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the cicd-automation plugin — 4 skills, 1 command, 5 agents shipped together

not rated 40krepo +118 2d ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: passSkillSpector: pass 58 tokens original MIT

Good fit It is for planning canary and blue-green deployments, zero-downtime releases, automated quality gates, compliance scans, and deployment orchestration.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wshobson/agents/deployment-pipeline-design
About the project

Agentic Plugin Marketplace is a collection of reusable plugins, agents, skills, commands, and rules for coding-agent tools including Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, OpenCode, Antigravity CLI, and GitHub Copilot. It is for developers assembling agentic workflows across multiple harnesses from shared Markdown sources, and the catalogue entries are examples or subsets of those workflow components.

wshobson/agents · 39,505 stars · on GitHub · sethhobson.com

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 wshobson/agents --skill deployment-pipeline-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wshobson/agents

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cicd-automation, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 1 command, 5 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,089 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
  • Socket pass 23 May 2026
  • Snyk pass 23 May 2026
  • 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 $0.00058 $0.01089
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.00544
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00218
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00109

Measured 6d ago against content hash 9a56bd9401c1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

deployment-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 6d 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

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

plugins/cicd-automation/skills/deployment-pipeline-design/SKILL.md · 107 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 107 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Deployment Pipeline Design

Architecture patterns for multi-stage CI/CD pipelines with approval gates, deployment strategies, and environment promotion workflows.

Purpose

Design robust, secure deployment pipelines that balance speed with safety through proper stage organization, automated quality gates, and progressive delivery strategies. This skill covers both the structural design of pipeline architecture and the operational patterns for reliable production deployments.

Input / Output

What You Provide

  • Application type: Language/runtime, containerized or bare-metal, monolith or microservices
  • Deployment target: Kubernetes, ECS, VMs, serverless, or platform-as-a-service
  • Environment topology: Number of environments (dev/staging/prod), region layout, air-gap requirements
  • Rollout requirements: Acceptable downtime, rollback SLA, traffic splitting needs, canary vs blue-green preference
  • Gate constraints: Approval teams, required test coverage thresholds, compliance scans (SAST, DAST, SCA)
  • Monitoring stack: Prometheus, Datadog, CloudWatch, or other metrics sources used for automated promotion decisions

What This Skill Produces

  • Pipeline configuration: Stage definitions, job dependencies, parallelism, and caching strategy
  • Deployment strategy: Chosen rollout pattern with annotated configuration (canary weights, blue-green switchover, rolling parameters)
  • Health check setup: Shallow vs deep readiness probes, post-deployment smoke test scripts
  • Gate definitions: Automated metric thresholds and manual approval workflows
  • Rollback plan: Automated rollback triggers and manual runbook steps

When to Use

  • Design CI/CD architecture for a new service or platform migration
  • Implement deployment gates between environments
  • Configure multi-environment pipelines with mandatory security scanning
  • Establish progressive delivery with canary or blue-green strategies
  • Debug pipelines where stages succeed but production behavior is wrong
  • Reduce mean time to recovery by automating rollback on metric degradation

Read the full file on GitHub · 107 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. 6d ago First seen · 107 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A 9a56bd9401c1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

deployment-pipeline-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository wshobson/agents (39,505 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 1,089 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 2026-09-03.

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