Design multi-stage CI/CD pipelines with approval gates, security checks, and deployment orchestration.
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◆DevOps & SRE pack
Last verified 8/7/2026
What it changes
Passed 20 of 22 test cases with the skill, and 20 of 22 without it.
Without skill91%
With skill91%
Checks it passed that the model alone missed
The rollback section includes explicit manual runbook steps alongside automated rollback triggers.
1 fixed20 passed either way1 still failing1 broke
Pass-rate lift
0 pp
Tokens
+45%
Agent turns
0%
Response time
+6%
Model gemini-3.6-flashMeasured 8/7/2026v121 of 23 cases passed with skill · 22 comparable
Tokens, turns and time describe resource use, not a dollar price.
See it in action
A test case the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.
Prompt
Design a CI/CD deployment pipeline for a Go microservice running on EKS across dev, staging, and production environments. We want a canary release process with zero downtime, monitored via Datadog, with mandatory SAST and dependency scanning gates before promotion. Please deliver a complete pipeline architecture plan including stage definitions with caching and parallelism, canary rollout configuration, deep health check endpoints, automated metric gate thresholds, and a detailed rollback runbook.
What was checked, without and with the skill
Checked
Without skill
With skill
The health check plan specifies deep readiness checks that verify downstream database or dependency connectivity.
Passed
Passed
The rollback section includes explicit manual runbook steps alongside automated rollback triggers.
Missed
Passed
case-01 · gemini-3.6-flash · 8/7/2026 · answers are capped and redacted
What's inside
The instructions your model reads when the skill loads.
SKILL.md101 lines3 files
Deployment Pipeline Design
Architecture patterns for multi-stage CI/CD pipelines with approval gates, deployment strategies, and environment promotion workflows.
Purpose
Design robust, secure deployment pipelines that balance speed with safety through proper stage organization, automated quality gates, and progressive delivery strategies. This skill covers both the structural design of pipeline architecture and the operational patterns for reliable production deployments.
Input / Output
What You Provide
Application type: Language/runtime, containerized or bare-metal, monolith or microservices
Deployment target: Kubernetes, ECS, VMs, serverless, or platform-as-a-service
Environment topology: Number of environments (dev/staging/prod), region layout, air-gap requirements