Model Online / On-Site
Duration
Modules 5 modules

Course Objective & Scope

Coding agents are not limited to interactive IDE sessions; triggered headlessly inside CI/CD pipelines, they can diagnose broken builds, complete breaking dependency upgrades, sync docs and tests, or turn well-scoped issues into draft pull requests overnight. This course teaches how to engineer safe, budget-bounded headless agent pipelines in GitHub Actions and GitLab CI.

Running Claude Code, Codex CLI and agent SDKs in non-interactive CI modes, automated CI failure diagnosis and autofix PRs, resolving Dependabot/Renovate breaking changes, preventing untrusted PR prompt injection from exfiltrating CI secrets, and enforcing human merge gates are practised hands-on.

Who Should Attend?

  • DevOps, platform and CI/CD infrastructure engineers
  • Senior software engineers and tech leads
  • DevSecOps and Developer Experience (DevEx) teams
  • Prerequisite: hands-on experience with GitHub Actions or GitLab CI/CD and containers

Key Takeaways

  • Run coding agents in headless CI modes with strict timeout, turn and token budget caps
  • Build workflows that diagnose failing CI jobs and open verified autofix suggestions or commits
  • Automate well-scoped issue-to-draft-PR and breaking-dependency upgrade pipelines
  • Harden CI agent workflows against prompt injection from untrusted issues, comments and fork PRs
  • Enforce least-privilege GITHUB_TOKEN scopes, audit trails and mandatory human merge approvals

Curriculum

Headless Coding Agent Architecture and CI Triggers
  • Non-interactive flags, structured JSON output, max-turns and dollar/token budget caps
  • Selecting high-ROI background workloads: build repairs, dependency upgrades, test/doc sync and scoped issues
Automated CI Failure Triage and Autofix Workflows
  • Parsing failed job logs to post root-cause diagnostics and GitHub/GitLab suggested changes
  • Gating autofix commits so patches are proposed only when the full test suite passes
Issue-to-Draft-PR and Breaking Dependency Upgrades
  • Turning agent-ready issues and review comments into tested draft pull requests
  • Fixing breaking API changes on Dependabot/Renovate major-version upgrade branches
CI Agent Security: Prompt Injection and Secret Isolation
  • Defending against prompt injection embedded in untrusted issue bodies, PR titles and fork diffs
  • Minimal GITHUB_TOKEN permissions, isolating production secrets from agent steps and trusted actor checks
Cost Guardrails, Loop Prevention and Human Merge Gates
  • Preventing bot-triggers-bot infinite CI loops and enforcing daily spend circuit breakers
  • Mandatory human review before merge and tracking PR acceptance/revert rates

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