Bash Pro

What it does

Bash Pro provides an opinionated checklist and procedural guidance for writing defensive Bash scripts suitable for production automation, CI/CD steps, and system utilities. It focuses on predictable error handling, secure input handling, consistent formatting, and integrating linting and testing so that scripts behave reliably across environments and are easy to maintain.

When to use it

Apply this skill when creating or auditing Bash scripts that will run in CI pipelines, deployment jobs, or operational tooling where mistakes can have production impact. Not suitable when POSIX-only shells are required or when a higher-level language would be a better fit.

What's included

• Scripts: no bundled script artifacts inside the SKILL.md, but the document outlines commands and patterns to implement.
• References: none listed separately; the skill content references tools like ShellCheck, shfmt, and Bats.
• Instructions: concrete steps for input validation, strict modes (set -Eeuo pipefail), safe argument parsing with getopts, secure temp file handling, and recommended CI integration patterns.

Compatible agents

Developer and automation-focused agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI and other CLI-based assistants that author or validate shell scripts are best suited to use this skill.