CI/CD Playbook Skill

Produce a complete, actionable CI/CD playbook for a service or team — covering everything a new engineer needs to understand, contribute to, and operate the pipeline safely.

A good playbook is not a diagram. It is a document that answers: what runs, when, why, who owns it, and what to do when it breaks.

Required Inputs

Ask for these if not already provided:

• Service name and brief description
• Tech stack — language, framework, containerisation (Docker, etc.)
• Source control — GitHub / GitLab / Bitbucket, branching strategy
• CI platform — GitHub Actions / CircleCI / Jenkins / BuildKite / other
• CD platform / deployment target — Kubernetes, ECS, Lambda, Heroku, VMs, etc.
• Environments — e.g. dev, staging, production (and any canary / feature environments)
• Deployment frequency — how often does the team ship?
• Any existing gates — manual approvals, smoke tests, feature flags
• On-call setup — who's responsible during deploys?