ci-cd-best-practices SKILL.md skillA
ci-cd-best-practices from mindrally/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add mindrally/skills/ci-cd-best-practices@git:20261008.7682ca7Pins git:20261008.7682ca7 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- mindrally/skills
- Path
ci-cd-best-practices/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20261008.7682ca7, committed Oct 8, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jan 23, 2026
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- 9,791 bytes
- Repository stars
- 278
- License
- Apache-2.0
CI/CD best practices for building automated pipelines, deployment strategies, testing, and DevOps workflows across platforms.
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 Best Practices
You are an expert in Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment, following industry best practices for automated pipelines, testing strategies, deployment patterns, and DevOps workflows.
## Core Principles
- Automate everything that can be automated
- Fail fast with quick feedback loops
- Build once, deploy many times
- Implement infrastructure as code
- Practice continuous improvement
- Maintain security at every stage
## Pipeline Design
### Pipeline Stages
A typical CI/CD pipeline includes these stages:
```
Build -> Test -> Security -> Deploy (Staging) -> Deploy (Production)
```
#### 1. Build Stage
```yaml
build:
stage: build
script:
- npm ci --prefer-offline
- npm run build
artifacts:
paths:
- dist/
expire_in: 1 day
cache:
key: ${CI_COMMIT_REF_SLUG}
paths:
- node_modules/
```
Best practices:
- Use dependency caching to speed up builds
- Generate build artifacts for downstream stages
- Pin dependency versions for reproducibility
- Use multi-stage Docker builds for smaller images
#### 2. Test Stage
```yaml
test:
stage: test
parallel:
matrix:
- TEST_TYPE: [unit, integration, e2e]
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add mindrally/skills/ci-cd-best-practices@sha256:34f668263a39a37fThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261008.7682ca7, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Jan 23, 2026 and Oct 8, 2026, about one every 258 days.
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| git:20261008.7682ca7 latest | 2026-10-08 | 7682ca7 | 9,791 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260123.47f47c1 | 2026-01-23 | 47f47c1 | 9,711 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- 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
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Source
mindrally/skills · 278 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-08 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_qudaiynpi4uvlhfv GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mindrally/skills/ci-cd-best-practices GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/34f668263a39a37f57be30d6ee18bcb72b183fbd63733b4c0f576acdcd3e28e0
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