CI Pipeline Builder

What it does

CI Pipeline Builder takes your tech stack and deployment target (Vercel, AWS, GCP, Railway, Fly.io) and produces a complete, working pipeline YAML. It includes caching strategies for your package manager, parallel test runs, environment separation (staging/production), and rollback conditions. The pipeline follows a fast-feedback principle — quick checks (lint, type-check) run first so failures surface in under 2 minutes, saving compute credits and developer time.

The skill generates a companion docs section explaining each job, its inputs, and what triggers it — so your team understands the pipeline without digging into YAML. Secrets are handled correctly using your platform's secret store instead of being hardcoded anywhere in the workflow file.

How to install

bash

npx skills add user/ci-pipeline-builder

How to use

prompt

Build a CI/CD pipeline for: Next.js app, pnpm, deploy to Vercel on merge to main

yaml

name: CI/CD Pipeline
on:
  push:
    branches: [main, develop]
  pull_request:
jobs:
  lint-and-type-check:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - run: pnpm lint && pnpm type-check
  test:
    needs: lint-and-type-check
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
  deploy:
    if: github.ref == 'refs/heads/main'
    needs: test

Configuration

prompt

# Add end-to-end tests
Add E2E tests with Playwright to this pipeline

# Different deployment target
Deploy to AWS ECS using Docker images

# Add notifications
Add Slack notifications on failure to #deployments

Tip: For monorepos, ask for path filters so only affected services trigger their pipeline stages — this cuts CI time dramatically on large repos.

Related skills

Combine with Docker Compose Builder to containerise services before building the pipeline. Use Security Code Scanner to add a security audit step to every PR.