Agent skill · DevOps · mblode

ci-speedup agent skill by mblode

Cuts CI wait by measuring a pipeline's critical path from run timestamps, then splitting, sharding, and trimming setup, with a before and after ledger.

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At a glance

Publisher	mblode
Repository	mblode/agent-skills (28 listed skills)
Category	DevOps and Cloud
License	MIT
Last commit	October 17, 2026 (repository)
SKILL.md	88 lines, 1,509 words
Bundled files	6 files, including references, scripts
Quality score	91/100 · A Passes all seven graded checks
Security scan	Not scanned
README badge	Get the badges for this listing

Before you install

Read from the skill's files at the directory's October 19, 2026 snapshot: what ships with it, what its code reads, and the terms it is published under.

Bundled scripts: 1 script file (1 Shell). Your agent may run them, so read them first.
License: MIT, an open-source or open-content license.

Install ci-speedup

The skills CLI works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents; the other routes copy the folder by hand.

Skills CLI

npx skills add https://github.com/mblode/agent-skills/tree/main/skills/ci-speedup

Claude Code, project-level copy

tmp="$(mktemp -d)"
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mblode/agent-skills.git "$tmp/repo"
mkdir -p .claude/skills
cp -R "$tmp/repo/"skills/ci-speedup .claude/skills/
rm -rf "$tmp"

Codex installer

python3 ~/.codex/skills/.system/skill-installer/scripts/install-skill-from-github.py \
    --repo mblode/agent-skills \
    --path skills/ci-speedup

mblode/agent-skills is third-party code. Read SKILL.md and any bundled scripts before you install it.

How the author describes it

Cuts the wait from push to green by measuring a pipeline's critical path from run timestamps, then splitting, sharding, trimming setup and sharing test module state, with a before/after ledger. Use when asked to "speed up CI", "CI is slow", "why does a PR take 15 minutes", "CI is the bottleneck", or when agents merge faster than checks finish.

From the description field of SKILL.md. Agents read this line to decide when to load the skill.

Compatibility, from SKILL.md

Compatibility	Reads run and job timings through the GitHub CLI or a GitHub MCP server; other CI hosts need their equivalent API. Local re-timing needs the repo's toolchain installed.

Sections in SKILL.md

What Changes the Number
Reference Files
Workflow
Step 1: Baseline from timestamps
Step 2: Choose levers
Step 3: Change the pipeline and re-time locally
Step 4: Push and read the after-measurement
Step 5: Ledger and guardrails
Gotchas
Related Skills

Files in the skill folder

SKILL.md
evals/evals.json
references/ledger.md
references/levers.md
references/measuring.md
scripts/ci-timings.sh

Suede Skill Check: 91/100 · A

Report snapshot · October 19, 2026 · graded-v2

The rubric totals 100 points; published scores are capped at 99. Security scan: not scanned.

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Boundary clause: 0 of 4 points. 4 when the description says when not to use the skill (“Not for …”, “Do not use …”, “Use … instead”).
Tool permissions declared: 0 of 2 points. 2 when the frontmatter declares allowed-tools.

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ci-speedup passes the required frontmatter check and all seven graded checks, which cover the SKILL.md format, a declared license and a commit in the last year. Those checks earn 56 of the score’s points; the rest come from description quality, instruction depth, bundled files, maintenance and curated-list citations. How the score works.

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Check	Result
Frontmatter parses and declares a name and a description	Pass
Name uses lowercase letters, digits and hyphens, 64 characters or fewer	Pass
Name matches the skill's folder name	Pass
Description is between 50 and 1,024 characters	Pass
Description says when an agent should use the skill	Pass
SKILL.md body is 500 lines or fewer	Pass
A license is declared in the frontmatter or the repository	Pass
Repository has a commit in the last 12 months	Pass

Score component	Points
Structural checks	56 of 56
Description length	5 of 5
Boundary clause	0 of 4
Example request	3 of 3
Instruction depth	7 of 7
Reference files	3 of 3
Bundled scripts	2 of 2
Recent maintenance	9 of 9
Curated-list citations	4 of 7
Tool permissions declared	0 of 2
Compatibility declared	2 of 2

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