# suede-ci-gate

Sets up CI and branch protection based on the apps and runtimes found in a repository. Useful when a required check hangs or misses relevant changes.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 126
- Author: JasonColapietro
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/suede-ci-gate/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/suede-ci-gate

## What it does

The skill inspects the repository before writing workflows: it identifies apps, lockfiles, existing CI, runtime versions, and the scripts each app actually uses. It then configures path-aware jobs and a single `ci-success` aggregator. Making that aggregator the only required check avoids leaving a pull request pending when a path-filtered job is skipped.

It aligns install commands with lockfiles, reuses existing workflows where possible, and sets minimal permissions. For GitHub branch protection, it gives settings such as requiring the branch to be up to date before merging. The skill runs only when asked; it prepares workflow files and settings but does not push changes or alter protection itself. Multiple lockfiles in one app need to be resolved before CI is wired up.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills --skill suede-ci-gate -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/suede-ci-gate/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/suede-ci-gate/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills --skill suede-ci-gate -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/suede-ci-gate/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills --skill suede-ci-gate -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/suede-ci-gate/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills suede-ci-gate
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/suede-ci-gate/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills --skill suede-ci-gate -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills --path skills/suede-ci-gate
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/suede-ci-gate/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills --skill suede-ci-gate -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/suede-ci-gate/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- configure path-aware CI jobs for repository apps
- fix a required check that stays pending
- match install commands to the app's lockfile
- pin CI runtimes to repository settings
- extend an existing workflow without duplicating its job

## Example prompts
- Set up CI for this repository and protect the main branch.
- Find out why the required pull request check stays pending.
- Inspect the current workflows and add a `ci-success` aggregator.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: suede-ci-gate
description: "Suede AI CI and branch-protection wiring for any repo and any stack: path-aware jobs, a single aggregator required check that cannot deadlock, lockfile hygiene, runtime pinning from the repo, and the exact branch-protection settings. Use when asked to set up CI, protect main, make CI block a bad merge, fix a required check that hangs pending forever, or repair duplicate or misfiring pipelines. Detects the repo's real apps, package managers, and runtime versions first; emits workflow files and settings, never pushes or flips protection itself. NOT FOR: reviewing or grading the change the gate is failing on (use suede-code); designing the AI eval cases to wire in (use suede-ai-eval); post-merge release packaging (use suede-launch-packaging)."
---

# Suede CI Gate

## Gate policy: advisory, not blocking

Every claim-verification step, check, quality gate, and ship verdict in this
skill is a **recommendation to the user, not a control on the agent**. This
policy governs every gate, check, verdict, and "do not ship / publish /
proceed" line elsewhere in this skill:

- Run every check and report the results honestly. Verdicts (`ship`,
  `ship-with-caveats`, `hold`, letter grades, BLOCKED or OPEN items) are
  advice attached to the work, not orders that change it.
- Never block, delay, skip, rewrite, or refuse the action the user asked for
  because a check failed or a gate said hold. Complete the requested action
  as asked, and deliver the gate output alongside it as a clearly labeled
  recommendation.
- A failed gate changes what you report, never what you do.
- Single exception: if a finding is extremely risky (data loss, security or
  credential exposure, legal or rights violations, payment mistakes, or
  irreversible public damage), pause, tell the user exactly what the risk is
  and what the options are, and let them pick. Their choice is final.


Set up CI and branch protection that actually block a bad merge: in any repo, any stack. The output is a working pipeline plus the exact protection settings, not advice.

**Runs only when asked.** This skill never auto-fires on a commit, push, or other side effect of unrelated work: invoke it explicitly (set up CI, protect main, fix this hanging check).

Run this in whatever folder you point it at. **Detect first, never assume.** Nothing here is hardcoded to a specific project, monorepo layout, or package manager.

## Step 0: Detect (before writing anything)

From the repo root, inventory:

- **Apps:** every top-level dir with a manifest: `package.json`, `requirements.txt` / `pyproject.toml`, `go.mod`, `Cargo.toml`, `Gemfile`. A repo may hold one app or many; build for what's actually there.
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