Automation & Tooling Sub-Skill

Browser automation, CI/CD pipelines, monorepo management, and developer tooling.

Purpose

Handles browser automation, web scraping, CI/CD pipelines, monorepo management, performance testing, feature flags, and development tooling.

Context Discovery

Auto-Investigation

Signal	Check For	Why
CI/CD config	`.github/workflows/`, `.gitlab-ci.yml`	Pipeline automation
Monorepo structure	`turbo.json`, `pnpm-workspace.yaml`	Monorepo tooling
Testing setup	Performance test suites, k6 scripts	Testing automation
Feature flag config	LaunchDarkly, Unleash SDK	Feature flag usage
Browser automation	Puppeteer/Playwright scripts	Automation scripts

Discovery Questions

questions:
  - question: "What automation do you need?"
    options:
      - label: "Browser automation/scraping"
        description: "Use puppeteer-automation or playwright-automation"
      - label: "CI/CD pipeline"
        description: "Use cd-basics, cd-pipelines"
      - label: "Monorepo management"
        description: "Use monorepo-turborepo, pnpm-package-management"
      - label: "Performance testing"
        description: "Use perf-test-basics, perf-test-tools"

  - question: "What's your monorepo scale?"
    options:
      - label: "Small (2-5 packages)"
        description: "Simple workspace setup"
      - label: "Medium (5-15 packages)"
        description: "Use Turborepo for caching"
      - label: "Large (15+ packages)"
        description: "Full Turborepo + pnpm optimization"

  - question: "Are you using feature flags?"
    options:
      - label: "Yes, in production"
        description: "Use feature-flags for best practices"
      - label: "Planning to implement"
        description: "Start with feature-flags basics"
      - label: "No"
        description: "Skip feature flag methodologies"

When to Use

Browser automation (Puppeteer, Playwright)
Web scraping
CI/CD pipelines
Monorepo management (Turborepo, pnpm)
Performance testing
A/B testing
Feature flags
Trunk-based development
Logging patterns
Internationalization
AI-assisted development

Methodologies (23 files)

Browser Automation (4): puppeteer-automation, playwright-automation, browser-automation-overview, web-scraping

DevOps (3): cd-basics, cd-pipelines, continuous-delivery

Dev Methodologies (3): dev-methodologies-architecture, dev-methodologies-practices, dev-methodologies-testing

Tooling (5): pnpm-package-management, monorepo-turborepo, feature-flags, internationalization, logging-patterns

Testing & Quality (4): perf-test-basics, perf-test-tools, ab-testing-basics, ab-testing-implementation

Trunk-Based Dev (2): trunk-based-dev-principles, trunk-based-dev-patterns

Modern Practices (2): ai-assisted-dev, best-practices-2026

Tools

Automation: Puppeteer, Playwright, Selenium Monorepo: Turborepo, Nx, pnpm workspaces CI/CD: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins Performance: Lighthouse, k6, Artillery Feature flags: LaunchDarkly, Unleash, PostHog

Related Sub-Skills

Sub-skill	Relationship
faion-code-quality	Code quality and architecture
faion-devops-engineer	Infrastructure and deployment
faion-cicd-engineer	Advanced CI/CD

Integration

Invoked by parent skill faion-devtools-developer for automation and tooling work.

faion-automation-tooling v1.0 | 23 methodologies