Skills

Deployment Pipeline Design

Design multi-stage CI/CD pipelines with approval gates, security checks, and deployment...

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npx skills add wshobson/agents --skill deployment-pipeline-design -g -a claude-code -y
Repository
wshobson/agents42.1k
Category
Design
Updated
5d ago
License
MIT
Context cost
Lightabout 1,288 tokens
Runs scripts
No, instructions only

What it does

Design multi-stage CI/CD pipelines with approval gates, security checks, and deployment orchestration. Use this skill when designing zero-downtime deployment pipelines, implementing canary rollout strategies, setting up multi-environment promotion workflows, or debugging failed deployment gates in CI/CD.

Deployment Pipeline Design

Architecture patterns for multi-stage CI/CD pipelines with approval gates, deployment strategies, and environment promotion workflows.

Purpose

Design robust, secure deployment pipelines that balance speed with safety through proper stage organization, automated quality gates, and progressive delivery strategies. This skill covers both the structural design of pipeline architecture and the operational patterns for reliable production deployments.

Input / Output

What You Provide

  • Application type: Language/runtime, containerized or bare-metal, monolith or microservices
  • Deployment target: Kubernetes, ECS, VMs, serverless, or platform-as-a-service
  • Environment topology: Number of environments (dev/staging/prod), region layout, air-gap requirements
  • Rollout requirements: Acceptable downtime, rollback SLA, traffic splitting needs, canary vs blue-green preference
  • Gate constraints: Approval teams, required test coverage thresholds, compliance scans (SAST, DAST, SCA)
  • Monitoring stack: Prometheus, Datadog, CloudWatch, or other metrics sources used for automated promotion decisions

What This Skill Produces

  • Pipeline configuration: Stage definitions, job dependencies, parallelism, and caching strategy
  • Deployment strategy: Chosen rollout pattern with annotated configuration (canary weights, blue-green switchover, rolling parameters)
  • Health check setup: Shallow vs deep readiness probes, post-deployment smoke test scripts
  • Gate definitions: Automated metric thresholds and manual approval workflows
  • Rollback plan: Automated rollback triggers and manual runbook steps

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