ci-pipeline-architect

What problem does it solve?

This Skill designs and, when explicitly requested, edits delivery pipelines so merges, tests, security checks, artifact handling, and deployment approvals are aligned with real risk instead of guesswork.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Pipeline stage design: Define a merge-blocking stage graph with clear semantics for linting, typechecking, build once reuse, unit and integration tests, security scans, E2E, packaging, and deploy gates.
• Secret and trust governance: Replace long-lived credentials with OIDC, scope secrets to jobs, prevent secret exposure on forked PRs, and separate trusted from untrusted execution paths.
• Promotion and protection alignment: Map branch protection, environment approvals, caching rules, artifact provenance, rollback primitives, and deployment strategies into one coherent CI/CD system.
• Use case: A team has slow PRs, stored cloud keys in workflows, and drifting required checks; this Skill restructures the pipeline, tightens access, and makes the merge path both faster and safer.

Quick Start

Ask the skill to review your current CI/CD workflows and redesign the pipeline with merge-blocking stages, scoped secrets, artifact reuse, and branch-protection alignment.