automation

Concourse: Automate CI/CD

Name: Concourse: Automate CI/CD
Author: concourse

Founders get automated pipelines with Concourse, a container-based automation system, now used by developers with 7.8k+ GitHub stars

From the repo · “Concourse is a container-based automation system written in Go. It's mostly used for CI/CD.”

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What it is

Founders create automated pipelines that assemble and deploy their software.

Real use case example

"A founder named Alex wants to deploy new blog posts to production as soon as she updates the code on GitHub. She sets up Concourse with a pipeline that uses a GitHub webhook to trigger deployment. Every time she updates the code, the pipeline assembles and updates the production blog."

When to use it

•Your startup needs to deploy code changes frequently and reliably
•You want to automate testing and validation of your application across different environments
•Your team requires a scalable and flexible CI/CD pipeline that can handle complex workflows

Ready-to-paste prompt

fly -t tutorial set-pipeline -p your-pipeline-name -c pipeline.yml

Saves to your device

Use with Claude

New

Skip the builder — one click puts this in Claude, Cursor, Antigravity and more.

🛠️ Technical setup

Expect 20–40 minutes in a terminal — or let your AI agent drive it.

Try it instantly — no install

Claude Code

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/concourse && curl -fsSL https://workflowstacks.com/api/skills/concourse/claude-skill -o ~/.claude/skills/concourse/SKILL.md

Open in another AI app

Opens the app with this repo with the prompt ready to go — no copy-paste needed.

Connect the whole catalog (MCP)

claude mcp add --transport http workflowstacks https://workflowstacks.com/api/mcp

Adds a WorkflowStacks connector to Claude Code: search and load any skill here by chatting.

How Concourse: Automate CI/CD works

Codeflow

Free to inspect

Concourse: Automate CI/CD is a very large Go project (~305k lines across 2243 code files, plus 72 test files). It is a full software project: use it through its install path rather than reading it end to end. Last commit this month, Apache-2.0 license, has a test suite.

Size

Very large codebase

~305k lines · 2243 code files · days to read — use, don't read

Setup

Developer setup

A real software project. Use it via its install path; don't expect to read it all.

Runs on

Go · Docker

No API keys detected

Go 75%Elm 24%JavaScript 1%

Where to start reading

1
README.md
Start here — what it does and how to install it
2
cmd/concourse/main.go
Where the program starts running
3
go.mod
Dependencies and the commands it exposes

What's in each folder

web/Frontend / UI326 files

worker/Backend / API216 files

integration/Sub-packages / plugins60 files

cmd/Command-line entry points12 files

atc/Folder1349 files

fly/Folder258 files

testflight/Folder134 files

topgun/Folder128 files

READMEHas testsDocumentedCI checksDocker readyApache-2.0 licenseUpdated this month

Use with Claude

New

Skip the builder — one click puts this in Claude, Cursor, Antigravity and more.

🛠️ Technical setup

Expect 20–40 minutes in a terminal — or let your AI agent drive it.

Try it instantly — no install

Claude Code

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/concourse && curl -fsSL https://workflowstacks.com/api/skills/concourse/claude-skill -o ~/.claude/skills/concourse/SKILL.md

Open in another AI app

Opens the app with this repo with the prompt ready to go — no copy-paste needed.

Connect the whole catalog (MCP)

claude mcp add --transport http workflowstacks https://workflowstacks.com/api/mcp

Adds a WorkflowStacks connector to Claude Code: search and load any skill here by chatting.

Quick Actions

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concourse

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Do this with a working workflow

Pages we wrote and tested that put a skill like this to work — importable n8n templates, outcome guides and Claude Desktop configs.

Outcome guide

Repurpose blog posts into social media content

Paste one piece of content into a private form and the workflow emails you back four ready-to-post formats — LinkedIn, X thread, Instagram, and an email blurb — all in the original’s voice.

Outcome guide