Automation & Tooling Sub-Skill

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.

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Context Discovery

Auto-Investigation

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"

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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

Integration

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

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faion-automation-tooling v1.0 | 23 methodologies