CircleCI CI/CD

Purpose

Design, implement, and optimize CircleCI CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test, and deployment workflows with parallel execution and caching strategies.

Agent Protocol

Trigger

Exact user phrases: "CircleCI", "config.yml", "CircleCI orb", "CircleCI pipeline", "CircleCI workflow", "CircleCI parallelism", "test splitting", "CircleCI cache", "Docker layer caching".

Input Context

Before activating, verify:

• CircleCI plan (Free, Performance, Scale) and available resource classes.
• Execution environment (Docker, Machine, macOS, Windows).
• Current pipeline bottlenecks (build time, test time, deploy time).
• Target deployment platform (Kubernetes, ECS, serverless).

Output Artifact

Writes to .circleci/config.yml, orb YAML files, and scripts directory.