Overview
deployment-pipeline-design is an open-source workflow skill for Claude Code and compatible agents, published by wshobson. Its author describes it as: “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…”. The project has 39k stars on GitHub and is available under the MIT license. Add it to your setup with `/plugin marketplace add wshobson/agents`.
What deployment-pipeline-design does
Architecture patterns for multi-stage CI/CD pipelines with approval gates, deployment strategies, and environment promotion workflows.
Best for
What’s inside
The SKILL.md for deployment-pipeline-design is organised into these sections:
- Purpose
- Input / Output
- What You Provide
- What This Skill Produces
- When to Use
- Detailed patterns and worked examples
- Troubleshooting
- Health check passes in pipeline but service is unhealthy in production
- Canary deployment never promotes to 100%
- Staging deploy succeeds but production job never starts
- Docker layer cache busted on every run causing slow builds
- Rollback leaves database migrations applied to old code
Installation
Add deployment-pipeline-design to your agent with:
/plugin marketplace add wshobson/agentsReview a skill’s source before installing it — skills can instruct your agent to run commands. This command comes from the skill’s public repository, which is the source of truth for setup steps. New to skills? Read how to install Claude Code skills.
Supported agents
- Claude Code — ships a claude code plugin marketplace
- Codex — declared in the repository topics
- Cursor — declared in the repository topics
- OpenCode — declared in the repository topics
- GitHub Copilot — declared in the repository topics
- Antigravity — declared in the repository topics
License
deployment-pipeline-design is published under the MIT license.
Strengths
- Clear MIT license — safe to read and adapt within its terms
- Ships in wshobson/agents, an established project with 39,066 GitHub stars
- Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, GitHub Copilot, Antigravity
- Actively maintained — repository updated in the last 90 days
- Its repository gained 669 GitHub stars over the last 24 days
Author
Topics
Frequently asked questions
- What does deployment-pipeline-design do?
- 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.
- How do I install deployment-pipeline-design?
- Run /plugin marketplace add wshobson/agents in your agent, then reload your skills. Review the source at https://github.com/wshobson/agents before installing.
- Is deployment-pipeline-design free to use?
- Yes. deployment-pipeline-design is free and open source under the MIT license, so you can read, run, and adapt it within that license's terms.
- Which agents does deployment-pipeline-design work with?
- deployment-pipeline-design lists Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, GitHub Copilot, and Antigravity — named in its SKILL.md, its plugin marketplace or its repository topics. Skills use the portable SKILL.md format, so other agents that read that format may load it too.
- Where does deployment-pipeline-design come from?
- deployment-pipeline-design ships inside wshobson/agents, a repository that contains 54 catalogued skills in total. The repository's 39,066 GitHub stars apply to that whole collection, not to this skill on its own.