agentic-sdlc-team-ai-directives

Crossplane composition patterns for cloud-agnostic infrastructure as code. Use when writing Crossplane Compositions, XRDs (CompositeResourceDefinitions), or Claims, managing cloud resources declaratively from Kubernetes, or designing platform team infrastructure abstractions with Crossplane.

Simple dbt workflow patterns for data transformation, testing, and project management. Use when creating dbt projects, running data pipelines, or implementing analytics engineering workflows.

External Secrets Operator (ESO) patterns for syncing secrets from cloud secret stores into Kubernetes. Use when integrating AWS Secrets Manager, GCP Secret Manager, HashiCorp Vault, or other backends with Kubernetes workloads, designing secret rotation strategies, or following DRY secrets management patterns across namespaces.

GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline patterns. Use when writing or reviewing GitHub Actions workflows, setting up reusable or organization-level workflows, configuring OIDC for cloud authentication, or implementing automated build and deploy pipelines.

GKE Workload Identity configuration for keyless GCP authentication. Use when configuring GKE pods to authenticate to GCP APIs without service account key files, setting up IAM bindings between Kubernetes service accounts and GCP service accounts, or troubleshooting Workload Identity permission errors on GKE.

Helm chart authoring patterns including chart libraries, wrapper charts, template helpers, and packaging standards. Use when creating or reviewing Helm charts, building chart library abstractions, packaging Kubernetes applications, or designing multi-environment Helm deployments.