Cicd Setup

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Needs to set up
• Improve CI/CD pipelines — GitHub Actions
• Deployment automation
• Automate deployment

Example prompts

• “set up CI”
• “automate deployment”
• “add tests to pipeline”
• “/cicd-setup”

Requirements

• Python 3
• Node.js

Workflow steps

7 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1Detect stack from repo signals — Scan for lockfiles (package-lock.json, yarn.lock, poetry.lock, go.sum, Cargo.lock), language manifests…
2. 2Choose pipeline stages — Start with a dependable baseline: checkout, runtime setup, dependency install with caching, then sequential lint…
3. 3Generate pipeline config — Write CI config for the detected platform. Output machine-readable YAML with correct caching strategy for the…
4. 4Configure secrets — List required secrets and how to add them. Use platform-managed secret stores. Recommend OIDC for cloud auth over…
5. 5Add deployment stages safely — Begin CI-only (lint/test/build). Add staging deployment with explicit environment info. Add production…
6. 6Validate before merge — Confirm generated YAML is syntactically valid, all commands exist in the project, caching aligns with the package…
7. 7Deliver config and instructions — Full config file plus setup steps.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 4ad31b4. 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

  No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are markdown and yaml).

  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

Cicd Setup loads about 1.7k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 51 tokens; SKILL.md has 636 words of instructions outside code blocks.

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

~51

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

~1.7k

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); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from shawnpang/startup-founder-skills at commit 4ad31b4, republished under its MIT licence (© shawnpang). 636 words, ~1,734 tokens.

name

cicd-setup

description

When the user needs to set up or improve CI/CD pipelines — GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, deployment automation, or says "set up CI", "automate deployment", "add tests to pipeline", "fix my build".

related

code-review, security-review

reads

startup-context

# CI/CD Pipeline: [Project Name]
## Stack Detection Results — detected language, runtime, tools, and build commands
## Pipeline Overview — Mermaid flowchart showing stages
## Pipeline Configuration — Full YAML config file
## Secrets Required — table: name, where to get, how to add
## Setup Instructions — step-by-step to activate
## Validation Checklist — commands verified, caching confirmed, branch rules set
## Optimization Notes — caching strategy, estimated build time

name: CI
on:
  push: { branches: [main] }
  pull_request: { branches: [main] }
concurrency:
  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
  cancel-in-progress: true
jobs:
  lint:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    timeout-minutes: 10
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
        with: { node-version: 20, cache: 'npm' }
      - run: npm ci
      - run: npm run lint && npx tsc --noEmit
  test:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    timeout-minutes: 15
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
        with: { node-version: 20, cache: 'npm' }
      - run: npm ci && npm test -- --coverage

Stack detection shows: Python 3.11, pytest, pip. Three fixes to cut to ~3 minutes:
(1) Add pip caching keyed on hashFiles('requirements*.txt'),
(2) split unit/integration tests into parallel jobs,
(3) add path filters to skip CI on docs-only changes.

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

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/cicd-setup of shawnpang/startup-founder-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 4ad31b4