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deployment-pipeline-design

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.

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

72%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

A well-organized, mostly actionable skill body with excellent progressive disclosure and concrete troubleshooting snippets. The main weakness is workflow clarity: it reads as a reference/architecture catalog rather than a sequenced pipeline-build workflow with explicit validation gates.

Suggestions

Tighten the opening 'Architecture patterns...' line and the 'Purpose' paragraph — their generic prose restates what the description and section headers already convey.

Add an explicit sequenced workflow (e.g., gather inputs → choose rollout strategy → define gates → configure health checks → wire rollback → validate pipeline) with validation checkpoints so the design process is reproducible end-to-end.

For destructive operations like database migrations, pair the compatibility advice with a concrete verify step (e.g., a query or migration-status check confirming old code is retired before destructive migrations run).

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Conciseness

Mostly lean and avoids explaining basics Claude already knows, but the opening 'Architecture patterns...' line and the 'Purpose' prose ('balance speed with safety through proper stage organization') add mild generic padding that could be trimmed.

4 / 5

Actionability

Concrete, mostly executable guidance throughout — real YAML/Dockerfile/bash snippets, specific tool config (Argo Rollouts AnalysisTemplate, inconclusiveLimit, GitHub Actions environment rules) — with minor gaps where some guidance is advice rather than runnable steps.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Content is coherently organized (Input/Output/When/Troubleshooting/Advanced) and each troubleshooting entry pairs a cause with a fix, but there is no explicit end-to-end pipeline-construction sequence with validation checkpoints; destructive migration guidance does include a guard, keeping it from dropping lower.

3 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Clear overview pointing to two real, one-level-deep reference files (references/details.md and references/advanced-strategies.md), each signaled with a descriptive one-line link; both files exist and the advanced file points back to SKILL.md rather than nesting deeper.

5 / 5

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Description

92%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A strong description that explicitly covers what the skill does and when to use it, with concrete capabilities and natural trigger phrases. Adding synonyms like blue-green/rolling would round out an already comprehensive trigger list.

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Specificity

Names the domain plus multiple concrete capabilities — 'approval gates, security checks, and deployment orchestration', 'canary rollout strategies', 'multi-environment promotion workflows', 'debugging failed deployment gates' — giving comprehensive coverage of concrete actions.

5 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers both 'what' (design multi-stage CI/CD pipelines with gates/security/orchestration) and 'when' via a concrete 'Use this skill when...' clause with several trigger phrases.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Strong natural phrases users would say — 'zero-downtime deployment pipelines', 'canary rollout', 'multi-environment promotion workflows', 'debugging failed deployment gates', 'CI/CD' — though a few synonyms (e.g., blue-green, rolling) are absent.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Occupies a clear niche — pipeline architecture/design with gates and orchestration — distinguishable from implementation skills, with specific triggers that minimize wrong-skill activation.

5 / 5

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Validation

100%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation16 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

No warnings or errors.

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wshobson/agents
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