Agent-Skills.md

Agent Skills: CI/CD Expert

Use when creating or debugging CI/CD pipelines, implementing deployment strategies (blue-green, canary, rolling), optimizing build times, reviewing pipeline security, or working with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, Azure DevOps, or Bitbucket Pipelines.

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Skill Metadata

Name
ci-cd
Description
Use when creating or debugging CI/CD pipelines, implementing deployment strategies (blue-green, canary, rolling), optimizing build times, reviewing pipeline security, or working with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, Azure DevOps, or Bitbucket Pipelines.

CI/CD Expert

Create, debug, and optimize CI/CD pipelines across platforms.

Platform Selection

| Platform | Best For | Key Strength | |----------|----------|--------------| | GitHub Actions | GitHub repos, open source | Marketplace, native integration | | GitLab CI | GitLab repos, self-hosted | Built-in registry, Auto DevOps | | CircleCI | Complex workflows, speed | Parallelism, orbs | | Azure DevOps | Microsoft/enterprise | Azure integration, YAML templates | | Bitbucket | Atlassian stack | Jira integration, pipes |

Key Principles

  • Security first: Never expose secrets in logs, use environment-specific secrets
  • Reliability: Idempotent steps, deterministic builds, pinned dependency versions
  • Efficiency: Cache aggressively, parallelize independent jobs, skip unchanged paths
  • Maintainability: DRY with reusable workflows/templates, clear naming

Quick Start Checklist

  1. Choose platform based on repository hosting
  2. Create pipeline with lint → test → build → deploy stages
  3. Configure secrets and environment variables
  4. Set up caching for dependencies and build artifacts
  5. Add deployment strategy (blue-green recommended for production)
  6. Review security checklist before going live

References

| Reference | Description | |-----------|-------------| | github-actions-basics.md | Workflows, triggers, jobs, steps, services | | github-actions-advanced.md | Reusable workflows, composite actions, security, complete example | | gitlab-ci-basics.md | Pipeline structure, triggers, jobs, caching, artifacts, variables | | gitlab-ci-advanced.md | Templates, includes, rules, Docker-in-Docker, security scanning | | circleci-basics.md | Config structure, executors, jobs, commands, caching, artifacts | | circleci-advanced.md | Workflows, orbs, conditionals, Docker builds, complete example | | azure-devops-basics.md | Pipeline structure, triggers, agents, variables, tasks, caching | | azure-devops-advanced.md | Templates, environments, deployments, conditions, containers | | bitbucket-pipelines-basics.md | Pipeline types, steps, caching, artifacts, variables | | bitbucket-pipelines-advanced.md | Pipes, Docker, YAML anchors, deployments, complete example | | deployment-strategies-blue-green-canary.md | Blue-green and canary deployments with K8s and AWS examples | | deployment-strategies-rolling-flags-rollback.md | Rolling deploys, feature flags, rollback, health checks | | debugging-error-categories.md | Environment, permission, network, resource, timing, cache, Docker errors | | debugging-platform-fixes.md | Platform-specific debugging, common fix patterns, quick reference | | security-checklist.md | Secrets, permissions, supply chain security |