CI/CD pipeline design, optimization, DevSecOps security scanning, and troubleshooting.

No licenceAuto-check passedDevOps & Cloud

Install CI CD

skills CLI
$ npx skills add ahmedasmar/devops-claude-skills --skill ci-cd -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install ahmedasmar/devops-claude-skills ci-cd --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ahmedasmar/devops-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/ci-cd/skills .claude/skills/ci-cd && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
ci-cd
GitHub stars
203
Token cost
~3.5k tokens
SKILL.md length
835 words
Files
18 (incl. scripts, references, assets)
Skills in repo
5
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

CI/CD pipeline design, optimization, DevSecOps security scanning, and troubleshooting.

  • Works in 6 steps: Creating a New Pipeline → Optimizing Pipeline Performance → Securing Your Pipeline → …
  • The user mentions CI/CD
  • SKILL.md covers Core Workflows, Quick Reference Commands, Platform-Specific Patterns and Diagnostic Scripts, plus 4 more sections
  • Calls gh, npm and python3

What it does

CI CD is an agent skill from ahmedasmar/devops-claude-skills. CI/CD pipeline design, optimization, DevSecOps security scanning, and troubleshooting. Use this skill whenever the user mentions CI/CD, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, pipelines, workflows, builds, or DevSecOps. Triggers include creating new CI/CD workflows, debugging pipeline failures or flaky tests, implementing SAST/DAST/SCA security scanning, optimizing slow builds with caching or parallelization, setting up deployment workflows, securing pipelines with OIDC or secrets management, implementing matrix builds or…

Its SKILL.md is about 3.5k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 22 other files, including scripts, reference files and assets (for example `assets/templates/github-actions/docker-build.yml`, `assets/templates/github-actions/go-ci.yml` and `assets/templates/github-actions/node-ci.yml`).

It sits in DevOps & Cloud, covering CI/CD. It works with GitLab, GitHub Actions and Docker. The repository describes itself as: A Claude Code Skills Marketplace for DevOps workflows.

When your agent uses it

  • The user mentions CI/CD
  • Include creating new CI/CD workflows
  • Debugging pipeline failures
  • Implementing SAST/DAST/SCA security scanning

Example prompts

  • “/ci-cd”

Requirements

  • Python 3
  • Node.js
  • Docker

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Creating a New Pipeline
  2. Optimizing Pipeline Performance
  3. Securing Your Pipeline
  4. Troubleshooting Pipeline Failures
  5. Implementing Deployment Workflows
  6. Implementing DevSecOps Security Scanning

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1489c33. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Ships 1 file in scripts/, which the agent can run.

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • gh
    • npm
    • python3
    • docker

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use gh, npm and docker, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

CI CD loads about 3.5k tokens when it runs, and up to ~21k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 149 tokens; SKILL.md has 835 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~149
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~3.5k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~21k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 835 words (~3,546 tokens).

“Comprehensive guide for CI/CD pipeline design, optimization, security, and troubleshooting across GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and other platforms.”

— opening of SKILL.md by ahmedasmar
name
ci-cd

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 17 other files (scripts, references, assets) in ci-cd/skills of ahmedasmar/devops-claude-skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • assets/templates/github-actions/docker-build.yml
  • assets/templates/github-actions/go-ci.yml
  • assets/templates/github-actions/node-ci.yml
  • assets/templates/github-actions/python-ci.yml
  • assets/templates/github-actions/security-scan.yml
  • assets/templates/gitlab-ci/docker-build.yml
  • assets/templates/gitlab-ci/go-ci.yml
  • assets/templates/gitlab-ci/node-ci.yml
  • assets/templates/gitlab-ci/python-ci.yml
  • assets/templates/gitlab-ci/security-scan.yml
  • references/best_practices.md
  • references/devsecops.md
  • references/optimization.md
  • references/security.md
  • references/troubleshooting.md
  • … and 2 more

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1489c33

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Categories

Questions about CI CD

What does CI CD do?

CI/CD pipeline design, optimization, DevSecOps security scanning, and troubleshooting. CI CD is an agent skill from ahmedasmar/devops-claude-skills. CI/CD pipeline design, optimization, DevSecOps security scanning, and troubleshooting.

When should I use CI CD?

CI CD fits situations like: the user mentions CI/CD; include creating new CI/CD workflows; debugging pipeline failures; implementing SAST/DAST/SCA security scanning.

How do I install CI CD in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add ahmedasmar/devops-claude-skills --skill ci-cd -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (ci-cd/skills in ahmedasmar/devops-claude-skills) into .claude/skills/ci-cd in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install CI CD in Codex?

Run `npx skills add ahmedasmar/devops-claude-skills --skill ci-cd -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (ci-cd/skills in ahmedasmar/devops-claude-skills) into .agents/skills/ci-cd in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use CI CD in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add ahmedasmar/devops-claude-skills --skill ci-cd -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/ci-cd, .gemini/skills/ci-cd, .github/skills/ci-cd and .opencode/skills/ci-cd in your project.

What does CI CD need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, CI CD needs the command-line tools its instructions call (gh, npm, python3 and docker). Our summary lists: Python 3; Node.js; Docker.

Does CI CD access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Its commands use gh, npm and docker, which can reach the network depending on how they are called. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is CI CD safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. The check reads SKILL.md only: the scripts in the folder are not scanned, so read them before running anything.

What licence does CI CD use?

No licence was found for CI CD or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.

How many tokens does CI CD use?

About 3.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 14k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 18k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to CI CD?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with CI CD: Megalinter Check (nvuillam/npm-groovy-lint, 248 stars), CI CD (EliasOulkadi/shokunin, 114 stars), CI (softspark/ai-toolkit, 179 stars) and CI/CD Pipeline Principles (irahardianto/awesome-agv, 157 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains CI CD?

ahmedasmar (a GitHub user) maintains it in ahmedasmar/devops-claude-skills, which has 203 GitHub stars. The repository holds 5 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on April 11, 2026.

Source: ahmedasmar/devops-claude-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.