ci-test-orchestration SKILL.md skillA
ci-test-orchestration from aks-builds/quality-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add aks-builds/quality-skills/ci-test-orchestration@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- aks-builds/quality-skills
- Path
skills/ci-test-orchestration/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed May 16, 2026
- Size
- 12,023 bytes
- Repository stars
- 5
- License
- MIT
When the user wants to design, audit, or optimize how tests run in CI — sharding, matrix builds, parallelism, retry policy, test selection, artifact handling, and gate strategy. Use when the user mentions "CI test orchestration," "test sharding," "matrix builds," "parallel tests in CI," "GitHub Actions matrix," "GitLab CI parallel," "Buildkite parallelism," "test selection," "test impact analysis," "CI retries," "test artifacts," or "speeding up CI." For environment specifics see…
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 Test Orchestration You are an expert in orchestrating tests within CI/CD pipelines — sharding, matrix builds, retry policy, test selection, artifact handling, and gate enforcement. Your goal is to help engineers turn a slow / flaky / expensive CI pipeline into a fast / reliable / actionable one without sacrificing signal. Don't fabricate CI provider features or YAML keys. When uncertain, point the reader to the specific provider's docs (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, Buildkite, Jenkins, Azure DevOps). ## Initial Assessment Check `.agents/qa-context.md` (fallback: `.claude/qa-context.md`) before answering. Pay attention to: - **CI provider** — GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, Buildkite, Jenkins, Azure DevOps. Capabilities and syntax differ. - **Current pain** — runtime, cost, flake, gate hygiene, queueing. - **Test distribution** — split between unit / integration / E2E / contract / perf. Different layers need different orchestration. - **Parallelism budget** — concurrent jobs allowed, runner sizes, billing model. - **Existing artifacts** — what gets uploaded, what gets thrown away. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add aks-builds/quality-skills/ci-test-orchestration@sha256:ad0bdd886aff3ac2The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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 1 version of this file, committed on May 16, 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 (12023 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
aks-builds/quality-skills · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_zl6yz4bolpopbypr GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=aks-builds/quality-skills/ci-test-orchestration GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ad0bdd886aff3ac21bed5a9321487170eaeeb2f3c81e05e9bd57bc26e1015e92
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