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 v1.7.0

Install

Pick whichever fits your project — they all reach the same skill.

  1. Claude Code via this marketplace
    /plugin install concourse-ci@netresearch-claude-code-marketplace
  2. npx any Agent Skills CLI
    npx skills add https://github.com/netresearch/concourse-ci-skill --skill concourse-ci

    Universal Agent Skills CLI from skills.sh — works across Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Gemini CLI and 30+ more agents.

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

    Requires netresearch/composer-agent-skill-plugin — resolves Agent Skills as Composer dependencies in PHP projects, auto-discovers skills, generates AGENTS.md.

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

    Provided by netresearch/composer-agent-skill-plugin — pins skill repos directly without going through Packagist, locks them in composer.skills.lock.

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 it expects in your project

Tags

  • devops