DevOps & Infra
DevOps agent skills automate the delivery side of software: CI/CD pipelines, Dockerfiles, infrastructure as code, releases, and incident checklists. A skill gives your AI agent the exact runbook to follow, so deployments and configs come out consistent every time.
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mittuled Bundle Pipeline Reliability TesterThis skill tests data pipelines for reliability including failure handling, retry behavior, and data consistency under fault conditions. Use when asked to validate pipeline resilience, test failure modes, or verify idempotency. Also consider when a pipeline is promoted to production without chaos testing. Suggest when the user deploys a new pipeline without reliability validation.
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mittuled Bundle Follow Up Sequence BuilderThis skill designs contextual follow-up sequences for 5 common sales scenarios with optimized cadence and messaging. Use when a prospect has engaged but not converted (opened email, attended webinar, downloaded content, had initial call, went silent). Also consider when deal stage requires re-engagement after no-show or ghosting. Suggest when pipeline review reveals stalled opportunities.
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mittuled Bundle Employee Handbook V1This skill produces the agent governance manual before the first skill is deployed. Use when asked to create governance policies, define agent operating rules, or establish fleet-wide standards. Also consider when launching a new agent fleet from scratch. Suggest when the user is about to deploy agents without documented governance.
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mittuled Bundle Data Pipeline Feasibility CheckThis skill assesses whether a proposed data pipeline is feasible given available data sources and infrastructure. Use when asked to validate a pipeline idea, check source availability, or evaluate infrastructure readiness. Also consider when stakeholders propose tight SLAs on untested sources. Suggest when the user is about to commit engineering effort to a pipeline without validating assumptions.
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xalgord Skill Detecting Shadow It Cloud UsageDetect unauthorized SaaS and cloud service usage (shadow IT) by analyzing proxy logs, DNS query logs, and netflow data using Python pandas for traffic pattern analysis and domain classification.
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xalgord Skill Performing Container Image HardeningThis skill covers hardening container images by minimizing attack surface, removing unnecessary packages, implementing multi-stage builds, configuring non-root users, and applying CIS Docker Benchmark recommendations to produce secure production-ready images.
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xalgord Skill Implementing Zero Trust In CloudThis skill guides organizations through implementing zero trust architecture in cloud environments following NIST SP 800-207 and Google BeyondCorp principles. It covers identity-centric access controls, micro-segmentation, continuous verification, device trust assessment, and deploying Identity-Aware Proxy to eliminate implicit network trust in AWS, Azure, and GCP environments.
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xalgord Skill Building Cloud Siem With SentinelThis skill covers deploying Microsoft Sentinel as a cloud-native SIEM and SOAR platform for centralized security operations. It details configuring data connectors for multi-cloud log ingestion, writing KQL detection queries, building automated response playbooks with Logic Apps, and leveraging the Sentinel data lake for petabyte-scale threat hunting across AWS, Azure, and GCP security telemetry.
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xalgord Skill Managing Cloud Identity With OktaThis skill covers implementing Okta as a centralized identity provider for cloud environments, configuring SSO integration with AWS, Azure, and GCP, deploying phishing- resistant MFA with Okta FastPass, managing lifecycle automation for user provisioning and deprovisioning, and enforcing adaptive access policies based on device posture and risk signals.
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xalgord Skill Securing API Gateway With AWS WafSecuring API Gateway endpoints with AWS WAF by configuring managed rule groups for OWASP Top 10 protection, creating custom rate limiting rules, implementing bot control, setting up IP reputation filtering, and monitoring WAF metrics for security effectiveness.
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xalgord Skill Scanning Containers With Trivy In CicdThis skill covers integrating Aqua Security's Trivy scanner into CI/CD pipelines for comprehensive container image vulnerability detection. It addresses scanning Docker images for OS package and application dependency CVEs, detecting misconfigurations in Dockerfiles, scanning filesystem and git repositories, and establishing severity-based quality gates that block deployment of vulnerable images.
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xalgord Skill Auditing Cloud With Cis BenchmarksThis skill details how to conduct cloud security audits using Center for Internet Security benchmarks for AWS, Azure, and GCP. It covers interpreting CIS Foundations Benchmark controls, running automated assessments with tools like Prowler and ScoutSuite, remediating failed controls, and maintaining continuous compliance monitoring against CIS v5 for AWS, v4 for Azure, and v4 for GCP.
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xalgord Skill Securing Container Registry ImagesSecuring container registry images by implementing vulnerability scanning with Trivy and Grype, enforcing image signing with Cosign and Sigstore, configuring registry access controls, and building CI/CD pipelines that prevent deploying unscanned or unsigned images.
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xalgord Skill Implementing GCP Vpc Firewall RulesImplementing and auditing GCP VPC firewall rules to enforce network segmentation, restrict ingress and egress traffic, apply hierarchical firewall policies across the organization, and monitor firewall rule effectiveness using VPC Flow Logs.
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xalgord Skill Securing AWS Lambda Execution RolesSecuring AWS Lambda execution roles by implementing least-privilege IAM policies, applying permission boundaries, restricting resource-based policies, using IAM Access Analyzer to validate permissions, and enforcing role scoping through SCPs.
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xalgord Skill Analyzing Kubernetes Audit LogsParses Kubernetes API server audit logs (JSON lines) to detect exec-into-pod, secret access, RBAC modifications, privileged pod creation, and anonymous API access. Builds threat detection rules from audit event patterns. Use when investigating Kubernetes cluster compromise or building k8s-specific SIEM detection rules.
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xalgord Skill Securing Helm Chart DeploymentsSecure Helm chart deployments by validating chart integrity, scanning templates for misconfigurations, and enforcing security contexts in Kubernetes releases.
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xalgord Skill Implementing LLM Guardrails For SecurityImplements input and output validation guardrails for LLM-powered applications to prevent prompt injection, data leakage, toxic content generation, and hallucinated outputs. Builds a security validation pipeline using NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails Colang definitions, custom Python validators for PII detection and content policy enforcement, and the Guardrails AI framework for structured output validation. The guardrails system intercepts both user inputs (blocking injection attempts, stripping PII, enforcing topic boundaries) and model outputs (detecting hallucinations, filtering toxic content, validating JSON schema compliance). Activates for requests involving LLM output validation, AI content filtering, guardrail implementation, or LLM safety enforcement.
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xalgord Skill Detecting Misconfigured Azure StorageDetecting misconfigured Azure Storage accounts including publicly accessible blob containers, missing encryption settings, overly permissive SAS tokens, disabled logging, and network access violations using Azure CLI, PowerShell, and Microsoft Defender for Storage.
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xalgord Skill Implementing Azure Defender For CloudImplementing Microsoft Defender for Cloud to enable cloud security posture management, workload protection across VMs, containers, databases, and storage, configure security recommendations, and set up adaptive security controls with automated remediation.
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xalgord Skill Implementing GCP Binary AuthorizationImplement GCP Binary Authorization to enforce deploy-time security controls that ensure only trusted, attested container images are deployed to Google Kubernetes Engine and Cloud Run.
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xalgord Skill Scanning Docker Images With TrivyTrivy is a comprehensive open-source vulnerability scanner by Aqua Security that detects vulnerabilities in OS packages, language-specific dependencies, misconfigurations, secrets, and license violati
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xalgord Skill Building Devsecops Pipeline With Gitlab CIDesign and implement a comprehensive DevSecOps pipeline in GitLab CI/CD integrating SAST, DAST, container scanning, dependency scanning, and secret detection.
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xalgord Skill Conducting Cloud Incident ResponseResponds to security incidents in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) by performing identity-based containment, cloud-native log analysis, resource isolation, and forensic evidence acquisition adapted for ephemeral cloud infrastructure. Activates for requests involving cloud incident response, AWS security incident, Azure compromise, GCP breach, cloud forensics, or cloud identity compromise.
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xalgord Skill Detecting Cloud Threats With GuarddutyThis skill teaches security teams how to deploy and operationalize Amazon GuardDuty for continuous threat detection across AWS accounts and workloads. It covers enabling protection plans for S3, EKS, EC2 runtime monitoring, and Lambda, interpreting finding severity levels, and building automated response workflows using EventBridge and Lambda.
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xalgord Skill Implementing Zero Trust Network AccessImplementing Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) in cloud environments by configuring identity-aware proxies, micro-segmentation, continuous verification with conditional access policies, and replacing traditional VPN-based access with BeyondCorp-style architectures across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
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xalgord Skill Remediating S3 Bucket MisconfigurationThis skill provides step-by-step procedures for identifying and remediating Amazon S3 bucket misconfigurations that expose sensitive data to unauthorized access. It covers enabling S3 Block Public Access at account and bucket levels, auditing bucket policies and ACLs, enforcing encryption, configuring access logging, and deploying automated remediation using AWS Config and Lambda.
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xalgord Skill Securing Azure With Microsoft DefenderThis skill instructs security practitioners on deploying Microsoft Defender for Cloud as a cloud-native application protection platform for Azure, multi-cloud, and hybrid environments. It covers enabling Defender plans for servers, containers, storage, and databases, configuring security recommendations, managing Secure Score, and integrating with the unified Defender portal for centralized threat management.
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xalgord Skill Integrating Dast With Owasp Zap In PipelineThis skill covers integrating OWASP ZAP (Zed Attack Proxy) for Dynamic Application Security Testing in CI/CD pipelines. It addresses configuring baseline, full, and API scans against running applications, interpreting ZAP findings, tuning scan policies, and establishing DAST quality gates in GitHub Actions and GitLab CI.
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xalgord Skill Implementing Ics Firewall With TofinoDeploy and configure Tofino industrial firewalls from Belden/Hirschmann to protect SCADA systems and PLCs using deep packet inspection for OT protocols including Modbus, EtherNet/IP, OPC, and S7comm, enforcing granular access control between ICS security zones.
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xalgord Skill Analyzing Cloud Storage Access PatternsDetect abnormal access patterns in AWS S3, GCS, and Azure Blob Storage by analyzing CloudTrail Data Events, GCS audit logs, and Azure Storage Analytics. Identifies after-hours bulk downloads, access from new IP addresses, unusual API calls (GetObject spikes), and potential data exfiltration using statistical baselines and time-series anomaly detection.
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xalgord Skill Detecting Azure Service Principal AbuseDetect and investigate Azure service principal abuse including privilege escalation, credential compromise, admin consent bypass, and unauthorized enumeration in Microsoft Entra ID environments.
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xalgord Skill Detecting Compromised Cloud CredentialsDetecting compromised cloud credentials across AWS, Azure, and GCP by analyzing anomalous API activity, impossible travel patterns, unauthorized resource provisioning, and credential abuse indicators using GuardDuty, Defender for Identity, and SCC Event Threat Detection.
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xalgord Skill Implementing AWS Nitro Enclave SecurityImplements AWS Nitro Enclave-based confidential computing environments with cryptographic attestation, KMS policy integration using PCR-based condition keys, and secure vsock communication channels. The practitioner builds enclave images, configures attestation-aware KMS policies, validates attestation documents against the AWS Nitro PKI root of trust, and establishes isolated computation pipelines for processing sensitive data such as PII, cryptographic keys, and healthcare records. Activates for requests involving Nitro Enclave setup, enclave attestation validation, confidential computing on AWS, or KMS enclave policy configuration.
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xalgord Skill Analyzing Docker Container ForensicsInvestigate compromised Docker containers by analyzing images, layers, volumes, logs, and runtime artifacts to identify malicious activity and evidence.
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xalgord Skill Implementing API Gateway Security ControlsImplements security controls at the API gateway layer including authentication enforcement, rate limiting, request validation, IP allowlisting, TLS termination, and threat protection. The engineer configures API gateways (Kong, AWS API Gateway, Azure APIM, Apigee) to act as a centralized security enforcement point that validates, throttles, and monitors all API traffic before it reaches backend services. Activates for requests involving API gateway security, API management security, gateway authentication, or centralized API protection.
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Frequently asked questions
What are DevOps & Infra agent skills?
DevOps agent skills automate the delivery side of software: CI/CD pipelines, Dockerfiles, infrastructure as code, releases, and incident checklists. A skill gives your AI agent the exact runbook to follow, so deployments and configs come out consistent every time.
Which DevOps & Infra skills are most installed?
Popular DevOps & Infra skills on SkillMD right now include employee-handbook-v1, implementing-llm-guardrails-for-security, scanning-docker-images-with-trivy. Rankings shift as installs change; sort this page by "Most installs" for the live list.
Do DevOps & Infra skills work with Claude Code and Cursor?
Yes. Every skill here ships as a SKILL.md file, an open format that works in Claude Code, Claude.ai, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf, and 60+ other agents. Install one with npx skillmds@latest add <owner>/<name>, or copy the file into your agent's skills directory.