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Generate Infrastructure as Code (IaC) pipelines that provision the cloud and container infrastructure your app deploys to. Interview-driven: detects your stack and cloud provider, then outputs deterministic IaC files (Terraform, Bicep, Pulumi, or CDK) plus CI/CD pipelines that plan on PR and apply on merge. Use when setting up cloud infrastructure, provisioning container registries, databases, networking, DNS, or any infrastructure that containers deploy onto. Designed to run before /dock — /keel lays the infrastructure, /dock deploys to it.

Cloud & DevOps

What this skill does


# Keel - Infrastructure as Code Pipelines

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Taglines:
- ⚓ Laying the keel — everything builds on this!
- 🏗️ Infrastructure from code, not from clicks!
- 🌍 Terraforming your cloud, one resource at a time!
- 🔩 Bolting down the foundation!
- ☁️ Cloud infrastructure, declared and versioned!
- 🧱 No infra, no deploy — let's fix that!
- 📐 Measure twice, provision once!
- 🗺️ Charting the infrastructure map!

---

Provision cloud and container infrastructure through an interview-driven workflow
that generates deterministic IaC files and CI/CD pipelines. The generated pipelines
run `plan` on every PR and `apply` on merge to the default branch — no LLM at runtime.

**Recommended skill order:**
`/brace` → `/rig` → `/build` → `/ship` → `/keel` → `/dock`

/keel lays the infrastructure (registries, compute, networking, databases).
/dock creates the deployment pipelines that push containers onto that infrastructure.

## Flags

Parse optional flags from the request:
- `--plan-only`: Generate IaC files but no CI/CD pipeline
- `--skip-interview`: Use detected defaults without interactive prompts
- `--dry-run`: Show what would be generated without writing files
- `--tool <name>`: Force a specific IaC tool (terraform, bicep, pulumi, cdk)

---

## Output Formatting

Input display: `┌─ Input │ {fields} └─`. Pre-flight: `── Pre-flight ── ✅/⚠️/❌ ──`.
Stage headers: `━━ {N} · {Name} ━━━━━━━━━━━━━`. Icons: ✅ done · ❌ fail · ⚠️ warn · ⏳ work · ⏭️ skip.

---

## Platform Detection

Detect the hosting platform **before** pre-flight so dependency checks are
platform-specific:

```bash
REMOTE_URL=$(git remote get-url origin 2>/dev/null)
if echo "$REMOTE_URL" | grep -qiE 'dev\.azure\.com|visualstudio\.com'; then
  PLATFORM="azdo"
elif echo "$REMOTE_URL" | grep -qi 'github\.com'; then
  PLATFORM="github"
else
  PLATFORM="github"   # default fallback
fi
```

Pass `{PLATFORM}` into all phase prompts. Each phase uses the appropriate
CLI tool: `gh` for GitHub, `az repos`/`az pipelines` for Azure DevOps.

---

## Pre-flight

Before starting, check all dependencies in this table. The table contains
**all** dependencies — some are platform-conditional (see notes after table).

| Dependency | Type | Check | Required | Resolution | Detail |
|-----------|------|-------|----------|------------|--------|
| git | cli | `git --version` | yes | stop | Install from https://git-scm.com |
| sync | skill | `ls .claude/skills/sync/SKILL.md ~/.claude/skills/sync/SKILL.md ~/.claude/plugins/marketplaces/slamb2k/skills/sync/SKILL.md 2>/dev/null` | no | fallback | Repo sync; falls back to manual git pull |
| terraform | cli | `terraform --version` | no | fallback | Detected if user wants Terraform; suggest install from https://terraform.io |
| az | cli | `az --version` | no | fallback | Needed for Bicep; suggest install from https://aka.ms/install-azure-cli |
| pulumi | cli | `pulumi version` | no | fallback | Detected if user wants Pulumi; suggest install from https://pulumi.com |
| cdk | cli | `cdk --version` | no | fallback | Detected if user wants AWS CDK; install via npm |
| gh | cli | `gh --version` | yes | url | https://cli.github.com |
| az devops | cli | `az devops -h 2>/dev/null` | no | fallback | Falls back to REST API with PAT; see AzDO tooling below |

**Platform-conditional rules:**
- **`gh`**: Only required when `PLATFORM == github`. Skip for AzDO repos.
- **`az devops`**: Only checked when `PLATFORM == azdo`. Skip for GitHub repos.

Only check the IaC tool row that matches the user's choice (or detected default).
Skip checks for tools not being used.

For each applicable row, in order:
1. Skip rows that don't apply to the detected `{PLATFORM}`
2. Run the Check command (for cli/npm) or test file existence (for agent/skill)
3. If found: continue silently
4. If missing: apply Resolution strategy
   - **stop**: notify user with Detail, halt execution
   - **url**: notify user with Detail (install link), halt execution
   - **install**: notify user, run the command in Detail, continue if successful
   - **ask**: notify user, offer to run command in Detail, continue either way (or halt if required)
   - **fallback**: notify user with Detail, continue with degraded behavior
5. After all checks: summarize what's available and what's degraded

When `PLATFORM == azdo`, follow the shared AzDO platform guide
(repo root: references/azdo-platform.md) for tooling detection (`AZDO_MODE`)
and configuration validation (`AZDO_ORG`, `AZDO_PROJECT`).
Pass these variables into all phase prompts alongside `{PLATFORM}`.

---

## Phase 0: Sync

Invoke `/sync` to ensure the working tree is up to date with origin/main.
Falls back to `git pull` if /sync is unavailable.

---

## Phase 1: Detection

Launch an **Explore subagent** to scan the codebase for existing infrastructure.

```
Task(
  subagent_type: "Explore",
  description: "Detect existing IaC and cloud config",
  prompt: <read from references/interview-guide.md#detection-prompt>
)
```

The detection scans for:
- **Existing IaC**: Terraform (.tf), Bicep (.bicep), Pulumi (Pulumi.yaml), CDK (cdk.json),
  CloudFormation (template.yaml), ARM (azuredeploy.json)
- **Cloud provider signals**: Azure (azure-pipelines.yml, .azure/), AWS (.aws/, buildspec.yml),
  GCP (.gcloud/, cloudbuild.yaml)
- **Existing CI/CD**: .github/workflows/, azure-pipelines.yml, .gitlab-ci.yml
- **Container config**: Dockerfile, docker-compose.yml (signals what infra is needed)
- **Database signals**: migrations/, prisma/schema.prisma, alembic/, knex migrations
- **Existing /dock artifacts**: deploy/ directory, environment matrix (signals target platforms)
- **State backends**: terraform.tfstate, .terraform/, Pulumi.*.yaml stacks

Parse INFRA_DETECTION_REPORT. This feeds into the interview.

---

## Phase 2: Interview

Present detection results and fill gaps through guided questions.
Read the full interview flow from `references/interview-guide.md#interview-questions`.

The interview covers these topics in order. Skip questions where detection provided
high-confidence answers (but confirm with the user).

Topics covered (full prompts and options in `references/interview-guide.md`):

1. **Cloud Provider** — Azure, AWS, GCP, Multi-cloud, Self-hosted. Infer from /dock if it has run.
2. **IaC Tool** — Suggest by cloud: Azure→Bicep/Terraform, AWS→Terraform/CDK, GCP→Terraform/Pulumi, Multi-cloud→Terraform.
3. **Infrastructure Components** — Checklist: container platform, data (DB, cache, storage, queues), networking, security, monitoring. Auto-check from codebase signals (Dockerfile→registry, migrations→DB, Redis client→cache).
4. **Environment Topology** — Simple (dev+prod), Standard (dev+staging+prod), or Custom. Align with /dock if it has run.
5. **State Management** — Terraform: cloud storage per provider. Bicep: ARM handles it. Pulumi: Pulumi Cloud. CDK: CloudFormation.
6. **CI/CD Strategy** — Plan on PR + apply on merge (recommended), manual apply, or auto-apply.
7. **Naming Convention** — CAF style, simple, or custom prefix.
8. **Integration with /dock** — If /dock artifacts exist, offer to provision their deployment targets.

**If `--skip-interview`**: Use detected defaults + sensible defaults.

Compile all answers into an INFRA_CONFIG object for Phase 3.

---

## Phase 3: Generate Artifacts

Based on INFRA_DETECTION_REPORT and INFRA_CONFIG, generate all IaC files.
Use templates from `references/` as starting points.

### 3.1 — Project Structure

Generate an `infra/` di
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