CI/CD Pipeline Builder
Tier: POWERFUL Category: Engineering / DevOps Maintainer: Claude Skills Team
Overview
Generate production-grade CI/CD pipelines from detected project stack signals. Analyzes lockfiles, manifests, and scripts to produce optimized pipelines with proper caching, matrix strategies, security scanning, and deployment gates. Supports GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, and Buildkite with deployment strategies including blue-green, canary, and rolling updates.
Keywords
CI/CD, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, pipeline, deployment, caching, matrix builds, blue-green deployment, canary deployment, security scanning, SAST, container builds, environment gates
Core Capabilities
1. Stack Detection
- Language/runtime detection from lockfiles and manifests
- Package manager inference from lock file format
- Build/test/lint command extraction from scripts
- Framework detection (Next.js, FastAPI, Go modules, etc.)
- Infrastructure detection (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform)
2. Pipeline Generation
- Lint, test, build, deploy stages with correct dependencies
- Caching strategies matched to package manager
- Matrix builds for multi-version support
- Artifact passing between jobs
- Conditional execution (path filters, branch rules)
3. Deployment Strategies
- Blue-green with instant rollback
- Canary with percentage-based traffic shifting
- Rolling updates with health checks
- Feature flags integration
- Manual approval gates for production
4. Security Integration
- SAST scanning (CodeQL, Semgrep, Snyk)
- Dependency vulnerability scanning
- Container image scanning (Trivy, Grype)
- Secret scanning in CI
- SBOM generation
When to Use
- Bootstrapping CI/CD for a new repository
- Migrating between CI platforms
- Optimizing slow or flaky pipelines
- Adding deployment stages to an existing CI-only pipeline
- Implementing security scanning in the pipeline
- Setting up multi-environment deployment (staging, production)
Stack Detection Heuristics
File Found → Inference
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package-lock.json → Node.js + npm
pnpm-lock.yaml → Node.js + pnpm
yarn.lock → Node.js + yarn
bun.lockb → Bun
requirements.txt / Pipfile → Python + pip/pipenv
pyproject.toml + uv.lock → Python + uv
poetry.lock → Python + poetry
go.mod → Go
Cargo.lock → Rust
Gemfile.lock → Ruby
composer.lock → PHP
next.config.* → Next.js (Node.js)
nuxt.config.* → Nuxt (Node.js)
Dockerfile → Container build needed
docker-compose.yml → Multi-service setup
terraform/*.tf → Infrastructure as Code
k8s/ or kubernetes/ → Kubernetes deployment
GitHub Actions Pipeline Templates
Node.js (pnpm + Vitest + Next.js)
name: CI/CD
on:
push:
branches: [main, dev]
pull_request:
branches: [main, dev]
concurrency:
group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
cancel-in-progress: true
env:
NODE_VERSION: '20'
PNPM_VERSION: '9'
jobs:
lint-and-typecheck:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
- uses: pnpm/action-setup@v4
with:
version: ${{ env.PNPM_VERSION }}
- uses: actions/setup-node@v4
with:
node-version: ${{ env.NODE_VERSION }}
cache: 'pnpm'
- run: pnpm install --frozen-lockfile
- run: pnpm lint
- run: pnpm typecheck
test:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
needs: lint-and-typecheck
services:
postgres:
image: postgres:16
env:
POSTGRES_USER: test
POSTGRES_PASSWORD: test
POSTGRES_DB: testdb
ports: ['5432:5432']
options: >-
--health-cmd pg_isready
--health-interval 10s
--health-timeout 5s
--health-retries 5
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
- uses: pnpm/action-setup@v4
with:
version: ${{ env.PNPM_VERSION }}
- uses: actions/setup-node@v4
with:
node-version: ${{ env.NODE_VERSION }}
cache: 'pnpm'
- run: pnpm install --frozen-lockfile
- run: pnpm test:ci
env:
DATABASE_URL: postgresql://test:test@localhost:5432/testdb
build:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
needs: test
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
- uses: pnpm/action-setup@v4
with:
version: ${{ env.PNPM_VERSION }}
- uses: actions/setup-node@v4
with:
node-version: ${{ env.NODE_VERSION }}
cache: 'pnpm'
- run: pnpm install --frozen-lockfile
- run: pnpm build
- uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
with:
name: build-output
path: .next/
retention-days: 1
security-scan:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
permissions:
security-events: write
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
- uses: github/codeql-action/init@v3
with:
languages: javascript-typescript
- uses: github/codeql-action/analyze@v3
deploy-staging:
if: github.ref == 'refs/heads/main' && github.event_name == 'push'
needs: [build, security-scan]
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
environment:
name: staging
url: https://staging.myapp.com
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
- uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
with:
name: build-output
path: .next/
- name: Deploy to staging
run: |
# Replace with your deployment command
echo "Deploying to staging..."
env:
DEPLOY_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.STAGING_DEPLOY_TOKEN }}
deploy-production:
if: github.ref == 'refs/heads/main' && github.event_name == 'push'
needs: deploy-staging
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
environment:
name: production
url: https://myapp.com
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
- uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
with:
name: build-output
path: .next/
- name: Deploy to production
run: |
echo "Deploying to production..."
env:
DEPLOY_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.PROD_DEPLOY_TOKEN }}
Python (uv + pytest + FastAPI)
name: CI/CD
on:
push:
branches: [main]
pull_request:
jobs:
lint:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
- uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@v4
- run: uv sync --frozen
- run: uv run ruff check .
- run: uv run ruff format --check .
- run: uv run mypy src/
test:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
needs: lint
strategy:
matrix:
python-version: ['3.11', '3.12', '3.13']
services:
postgres:
image: postgres:16
env:
POSTGRES_USER: test
POSTGRES_PASSWORD: test
POSTGRES_DB: testdb
ports: ['5432:5432']
options: --health-cmd pg_isready --health-interval 10s --health-timeout 5s --health-retries 5
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
- uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@v4
with:
python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
- run: uv sync --frozen
- run: uv run pytest --cov --cov-report=xml -v
env:
DATABASE_URL: postgresql://test:test@localhost:5432/testdb
- uses: codecov/codecov-action@v4
if: matrix.python-version == '3.12'
with:
file: coverage.xml
build-container:
needs: test
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
permissions:
contents: read
packages: write
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
- uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v3
- uses: docker/login-action@v3
with:
registry: ghcr.io
username: ${{ github.actor }}
password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
- uses: docker/bu