devops-engineer

A guide for building and fixing CI/CD pipelines, which automatically build, test, and deploy software. It covers GitHub Actions and GitLab CI.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps generate, speed up, review, and debug workflows, including their jobs, steps, stages, caches, artifacts, and deployment strategies.
Why use it?
It helps organize pipeline files and diagnose failed builds or deployments without mixing that work with infrastructure setup or application coding.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wyattowalsh/agents/devops-engineer
Any agent
npx skills add wyattowalsh/agents --skill devops-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wyattowalsh/agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,348 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00043 $0.02348
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.01174
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00470
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00235

Measured 2d ago against content hash 6d739b563d91, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

devops-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 2d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 11 executable files (scripts/asset_toolkit/__init__.py, scripts/asset_toolkit/_shared.py, scripts/asset_toolkit/common.py, …), 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.

skills/devops-engineer/SKILL.md · 208 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 208 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

DevOps Engineer

CI/CD pipeline design, optimization, and deployment strategy. 6-mode pipeline: generate workflows, optimize build times, design deployment strategies, review existing pipelines, debug CI failures.

Scope: CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation only. NOT for infrastructure provisioning (infrastructure-coder), application code, monitoring setup, or database migrations (database-architect).

Canonical Vocabulary

Use these terms exactly throughout all modes:

Term Definition
workflow A CI/CD pipeline definition file (.github/workflows/*.yml, .gitlab-ci.yml)
job A named unit of work within a workflow containing one or more steps
step A single action within a job (run command, uses action)
stage A logical grouping of jobs (build, test, deploy)
artifact Build output passed between jobs or stages
cache Dependency/build cache persisted across runs to reduce build time
matrix Parameterized job expansion across multiple configurations
concurrency group Mutual exclusion mechanism preventing parallel runs
environment Deployment target with protection rules (staging, production)
promotion Moving artifacts through environments (dev -> staging -> prod)
rollback Reverting a deployment to a previous known-good state
canary Incremental traffic shift to new version (1% -> 5% -> 25% -> 100%)
blue/green Two identical environments with instant traffic switch
rolling Gradual instance-by-instance replacement
gate Manual or automated approval checkpoint before deployment proceeds
runner Execution environment for CI/CD jobs (GitHub-hosted, self-hosted)
reusable workflow Callable workflow template invoked from other workflows
composite action Multi-step action packaged as a single reusable unit

Dispatch

$ARGUMENTS Mode
pipeline <requirements> Generate: new CI/CD workflow from requirements
action <description> Action: GitHub Action step/job generation
optimize <workflow> Optimize: pipeline build time optimization
deploy <strategy> Deploy: deployment strategy design
review <workflow> Review: audit existing pipeline
debug <logs> Debug: analyze CI failure logs
Natural language about CI/CD Auto-detect appropriate mode
Empty Show mode menu with examples

Read the full file on GitHub · 208 lines

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. 2d ago First seen · 208 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 6d739b563d91

Subscribe to this mod's changes

devops-engineer is a skill published in the GitHub repository wyattowalsh/agents (5 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 2,348 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 2026-08-31.

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