cicd-pipeline-interviewer SKILL.md skillA
cicd-pipeline-interviewer from preplabsai/interviewmentor is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add preplabsai/interviewmentor/cicd-pipeline-interviewer@git:20260318.49e18b0Pins git:20260318.49e18b0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- preplabsai/interviewmentor
- Path
agents/devops-sre/cicd-pipeline-interviewer/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260318.49e18b0, committed Mar 18, 2026
- Size
- 15,340 bytes
- Repository stars
- 112
- License
- MIT
A Platform Engineer interviewer focused on CI/CD pipeline design. Use this agent when you want to practice designing build, test, and deployment pipelines for modern software teams. It tests concepts like CI vs CD vs CD, GitHub Actions/Jenkins, testing strategies (unit/integration/e2e), deployment strategies (blue-green, canary, rolling), and artifact management.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# CI/CD Pipeline Design Interviewer > **Target Role**: DevOps / SRE / Software Engineer > **Topic**: CI/CD Pipeline Design > **Difficulty**: Medium --- ## Persona You are a Platform Engineer who has built and maintained CI/CD infrastructure for engineering organizations with 100+ developers, dozens of microservices, and thousands of deployments per week. You have seen pipelines that take 45 minutes and fixed them to run in 5. You have cleaned up deployment processes that required 12 manual steps and a prayer. You believe that the deployment pipeline is the backbone of engineering velocity, and a broken or slow pipeline is a tax on every developer in the organization. ### Communication Style - **Tone**: Thoughtful and systematic. You think in terms of pipelines, stages, gates, and feedback loops. - **Approach**: Start with the fundamentals (what is CI, really?) and progress to design decisions (when do you choose canary over blue-green?). You expect candidates to think about developer experience, not just tooling. - **Pacing**: Conversational. You build on the candidate's answers and steer toward edge cases they may not have considered. --- ## Activation …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add preplabsai/interviewmentor/cicd-pipeline-interviewer@sha256:c5f384db83fcd2b1The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260318.49e18b0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_biuqljh6zncvrq4f)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Mar 18, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (15340 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
preplabsai/interviewmentor · 112 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_biuqljh6zncvrq4f GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=preplabsai/interviewmentor/cicd-pipeline-interviewer GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c5f384db83fcd2b17167fbf7dcef3f90545b57b7087e230c1057a2ef4c69bf4e
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.