sre-platform_skill

Overview

This skill is the SRE Platform Agent focused on internal developer platforms, developer experience, and CI/CD platform operations. It helps teams design, maintain, and standardize developer tooling and golden-path workflows. The agent produces templates and platform documentation to accelerate onboarding and consistency across engineering teams.

How this skill works

The agent inspects platform configuration, CI/CD pipelines, and developer tools to recommend improvements and enforce standards. It generates reusable templates for common platform components and maintains platform documentation under a central docs area. It can suggest golden-path patterns and identify gaps in developer experience or pipeline reliability.

When to use it

• You are building or expanding an internal developer platform (IDP).
• You need standardized CI/CD pipelines and reusable templates across teams.
• You want to improve developer onboarding and reduce cognitive load for common tasks.
• You need to document platform decisions, runbooks, and standards for teams.
• You want to define and enforce golden-path workflows for safe, repeatable delivery.

Best practices

• Keep templates small and composable so teams can customize without forking.
• Store platform documentation in a central location and keep it versioned alongside templates (e.g., docs/platform/).
• Define clear golden-paths that cover onboarding, CI/CD, observability, and incident response.
• Automate enforcement where possible with pipeline checks and CI hooks rather than purely manual reviews.
• Review and iterate templates and docs regularly based on developer feedback and incident learnings.

Example use cases

• Create a new standardized CI pipeline template for services with build, test, security scan, and deploy stages.
• Audit the developer onboarding flow and produce step-by-step platform docs to reduce first-day setup time.
• Define a golden-path repository template that includes recommended dependencies, CI configuration, and observability defaults.
• Generate a library of infrastructure and deployment templates stored in templates/ for easy reuse across teams.
• Produce platform runbooks and governance guidelines under docs/platform/ to align teams on standards.