DevOps & Infrastructure

Concourse CI

Expert guidance for Concourse CI pipeline development, optimization, and troubleshooting. Pipeline creation, git/registry-image resources, job lifecycle hooks, YAML anchors, multi-branch pipelines with set_pipeline, oci-build-task, and gotchas like tag detection after force-push. Concourse v8.0+.

Latest release v1.11.7

Install

Choose a supported route below. Package contents, agent registration and runtime dependencies can differ between installers.

  1. Claude Code via this marketplace
    /plugin install concourse-ci@netresearch-claude-code-marketplace

    First add the marketplace once in Claude Code: /plugin marketplace add netresearch/claude-code-marketplace. Then install the selected plugin. For setup and installation scopes, see Claude Code plugin setup A plugin can include several skills and additional components.

  2. npx interactive skill selection
    npx skills add https://github.com/netresearch/concourse-ci-skill

    Requires Node.js 22.20+. Run from the target project, then choose the source skills and agents in the installer. Uses the skills CLI from skills.sh Installs skill instructions. Extra plugin hooks, commands and external runtime tools are not installed by this route.

  3. composer require PHP project, as a package
    composer require netresearch/concourse-ci-skill

    Allow the Composer skill installer to activate and approve skill registration when prompted. Requires netresearch/composer-agent-skill-plugin Discovers trusted skill packages and registers their instructions in AGENTS.md. Runtime tools may need separate setup.

  4. composer skills:add PHP project, direct source
    composer skills:add netresearch/concourse-ci-skill

    Install and activate netresearch/composer-agent-skill-plugin first; approve the selected source's skill registration. Provided by netresearch/composer-agent-skill-plugin Pins source repositories without a Packagist package and records them in composer.skills.lock. Runtime dependencies remain separate.

What you can do with it

  • Pipeline Creation: Write production-ready Concourse CI pipelines with proper structure
  • Resource Configuration: Configure git-resource, registry-image-resource, and 50+ resource types
  • Optimization: Parallel execution, task caching, resource filtering patterns
  • Troubleshooting: Debug common issues including git tag detection problems
  • Best Practices: YAML anchors for DRY, job lifecycle hooks, webhook triggers
  • Multi-Branch Pipelines: Dynamic pipeline management with set_pipeline and across
  • Container Builds: OCI image building with oci-build-task and versioning

What you get back

  • Concourse pipeline and resource configuration, validation results or a diagnosis of the reported pipeline failure.

What it expects in your project

Check the source README for current examples, requirements and limitations. Open full README

Tags

  • devops