Skills deployment-pipeline-design
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deployment-pipeline-design

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Design Reliable CI/CD Deployment Pipelines

Complex releases can fail without clear stages, gates, and rollback paths. This skill designs structured CI/CD pipelines with progressive delivery and verification controls.

Supports: Claude Codex Code(CC)
🥉 78 Bronze

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Using "deployment-pipeline-design". Design a release flow for a payment API that requires approval before production.

Expected outcome:

  • Flow: build, unit tests, security scan, staging deployment, integration tests, approval, canary production deployment, verification, and rollback.
  • Approval evidence: staging test results, vulnerability status, change record, and rollback owner.
  • Failure response: stop traffic increases and restore the previous verified version.

Using "deployment-pipeline-design". Choose a deployment strategy for a stateless service that needs rapid rollback.

Expected outcome:

  • Recommendation: blue-green deployment for fast traffic switching and immediate rollback.
  • Tradeoff: temporary duplicate infrastructure increases cost.
  • Validation: test the green environment before switching traffic and retain blue until verification completes.

Using "deployment-pipeline-design". Add automated verification to a canary release.

Expected outcome:

  • Observe error rate, latency, saturation, and key business outcomes at each traffic stage.
  • Promote only after metrics remain within defined thresholds for the observation period.
  • Rollback automatically when a threshold fails, then notify the release owner.

Security Audit

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v5 • 7/23/2026 Open versioned report

All 37 static findings are false positives caused by Markdown backticks, inert CI examples, placeholder domains, and a literal API_KEY placeholder. No code executes commands, reads environment secrets, or contacts external services, and no prompt injection or malicious intent was found.

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wshobson Recommended

wshobson-deployment-pipeline-design

Skillstore Score 78
Evidence Confidence High
Skillstore usage 13
Updated

2026-08-21

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sickn33-deployment-pipeline-design

Skillstore Score 78
Evidence Confidence High
Skillstore usage 8
Updated

2026-08-21

Skillstore Score

Why this score Evidence Confidence: High
55
Architecture
85
Maintainability
87
Content
69
Community
83
Spec Compliance

What You Can Build

Standardize service releases

Create a reusable stage model with tests, staging validation, production deployment, health checks, and rollback.

Add governed production gates

Define approval ownership, required evidence, release timing, and recovery responsibilities before production changes.

Plan progressive delivery

Compare rollout strategies and choose traffic stages, verification metrics, and failure thresholds for a service.

Try These Prompts

Outline a basic pipeline 
Design a CI/CD pipeline for [application] using [platform], covering build, test, staging, approval, production, verification, and rollback.
Select a deployment strategy 
Compare rolling, blue-green, and canary deployment for [service], considering traffic, downtime, rollback speed, infrastructure cost, and operational complexity.
Create governed release gates 
Design approval gates for [environments] with [approvers], evidence requirements, timeouts, audit records, and emergency rollback responsibilities.
Design progressive delivery 
Create a multi-stage pipeline for [service] with canary weights, health metrics, failure thresholds, notifications, automated rollback, and post-deployment verification.

Best Practices

  • Validate every template against the target CI platform and a non-production environment.
  • Keep credentials in approved secret stores and grant each pipeline stage minimal permissions.
  • Define measurable promotion and rollback criteria before enabling automated production changes.

Avoid

  • Do not deploy to production before required tests and approval evidence are complete.
  • Do not treat a single health endpoint as complete release verification.
  • Do not copy example commands without reviewing destinations, permissions, timeouts, and failure behavior.

Frequently Asked Questions

Which CI/CD platforms does this skill cover?
It includes patterns for GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure Pipelines, Kubernetes, and Argo Rollouts.
Does this skill run deployments?
No. It provides architecture guidance and examples that require implementation and validation.
Which deployment strategies are included?
It covers rolling, blue-green, canary, and feature flag releases.
Can it design approval gates?
Yes. It describes manual, delayed, and multi-approver gates for controlled environments.
Does it include rollback planning?
Yes. It covers automated and manual rollback after failed health or metric checks.
Are the examples ready for production?
No. Adapt commands, permissions, endpoints, secrets, and thresholds to your environment before use.

Developer Details

Author

sickn33

License

MIT

Skillstore revision

r2

Version notice

The author did not declare a version.

Repository

https://github.com/sickn33/antigravity-awesome-skills/tree/main/skills/deployment-pipeline-design

Ref

f9e2c34b4f19c7f3e6b0a1e93227b5f77cc12526

Maintenance freshness

7/26/2026

Usage

6 downloads · 111 views

File structure

📄 SKILL.md

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