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Generate and validate Docker Compose files for multi-container apps with templates, best-practice guidance, and deployment/runbook outputs.
This skill helps agents generate, validate, and document Docker Compose configurations for multi-container applications. It guides the user through assessment, design, implementation, testing, and production deployment steps, and produces artifacts such as templates, example compose files, monitoring dashboards, and runbooks. The skill pairs automated generation with human-reviewed best practices to reduce configuration errors and simplify multi-service orchestration.
Use this skill when you need to: set up or refactor a Docker Compose-based local or staging environment, create reproducible compose templates for microservices, convert architecture notes into an actionable compose file, or prepare deployment runbooks and monitoring configurations before production rollout. Trigger phrases include: "generate docker-compose", "create compose file", "configure multi-container app", or "compose generator".
{baseDir}/templates/docker-compose-generator/ and {baseDir}/examples/docker-compose-generator/ (has_scripts=true).{baseDir}/docs/ (has_references=true).Agents capable of running bash/python helpers and file edits (Claude Code, Codex/Copilot-style code assistants, and CLI-capable agents).
Docker Compose Generator skill includes 3 scripts (validate, env-gen, deploy) plus a README. SKILL.md is generic boilerplate with no Docker-specific instructions — just a 5-step template. Scripts are well-written with proper arg parsing, error handling, and help menus, but they all require an existing compose file as input and cannot generate one from scratch, contradicting the skill's stated purpose. The deploy script uses eval with string interpolation posing a minor shell injection risk.
Skill name promises generation but scripts only validate/deploy existing files. The SKILL.md is almost entirely generic boilerplate unrelated to Docker Compose. Useful scripts but mismatch between skill description and actual capability.
