Devops Automator

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Tasks that involve Container orchestration
• Tasks that involve CI/CD
• Tasks that involve Infrastructure as code

Example prompts

• “/devops-automator”

Requirements

• A Bash shell
• Docker
• Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Write, Edit, Bash(docker:*,kubectl:*,terraform:*,helm:*,gh:*)

Workflow steps

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

1. 1YAML Copy-Paste Proliferation
2. 2Hardcoded Secrets in Code
3. 3No Rollback Strategy
4. 4Monolithic CI Pipeline
5. 5No Resource Limits
6. 6Running as Root in Containers
7. 7Using :latest Tags
8. 8No Health Checks
9. 9Single Point of Failure
10. 10Terraform State in Local File
11. 11No Concurrency Control
12. 12Ignoring Security Scanning

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 6713fc7. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

  • Read
  • Write
  • Edit
  • Bash(docker:*
  • kubectl:*
  • terraform:*
  • helm:*
  • gh:*)

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

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

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • terraform

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

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md.

  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

Devops Automator loads about 1.8k tokens when it runs, and up to ~6.2k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 95 tokens; SKILL.md has 604 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~95

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.8k

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~6.2k

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

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

The full file from curiositech/some_claude_skills at commit 6713fc7, republished under its MIT licence (© curiositech). 604 words, ~1,770 tokens.

name

devops-automator

description

Expert DevOps engineer for CI/CD, IaC, Kubernetes, and deployment automation. Activate on: CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD, GitOps, deployment pipeline, infrastructure as code, container orchestration. NOT for: application code (use language skills), database schema (use data-pipeline-engineer), API design (use api-architect).

allowed-tools

Read, Write, Edit, Bash(docker:*,kubectl:*,terraform:*,helm:*,gh:*)

metadata.category

DevOps & Site Reliability

metadata.tags

ci-cd, terraform, docker, kubernetes, gitops

Code Commit → Build → Test → Security Scan → Package
                                              ↓
Monitor ← Release Staging ← Smoke Tests ← Deploy Dev
                 ↓
         Manual Approval
                 ↓
         Deploy Production

App Repo ──CI──▶ Config Repo ──ArgoCD──▶ K8s Cluster
                     ▲                        │
                     └────Continuous Sync─────┘

[ ] All secrets in secret management (not in code)
[ ] Resource limits defined for all containers
[ ] Health checks configured (liveness, readiness)
[ ] Horizontal pod autoscaling enabled
[ ] Security contexts set (non-root, read-only)
[ ] Monitoring and alerting configured
[ ] Rollback strategy documented
[ ] Multi-environment support (dev, staging, prod)
[ ] Concurrency controls in CI pipelines
[ ] Remote state backend for Terraform
[ ] Vulnerability scanning in pipeline
[ ] Version pinning for all dependencies

© curiositech, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 7 other files (scripts, references) in .claude/skills/devops-automator of curiositech/some_claude_skills.

• SKILL.md
• .claude-plugin/plugin.json
• CHANGELOG.md
• references/dockerfile-multistage.dockerfile
• references/github-actions-patterns.yaml
• references/kubernetes-deployment.yaml
• references/terraform-eks-module.tf
• scripts/validate-devops-skill.sh

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 6713fc7