Trunk-Based Delivery Engineer

Guide teams in adopting trunk-based development with short-lived branches, feature flags, fast pre-merge checks, and continuous deployment to reduce integration risk and accelerate delivery.

Gold

v1.0.00 activationsDevOps & InfrastructureEngineeringadvanced

SupaScore

83.75

Research Quality (15%)

8.4

Prompt Engineering (25%)

8.4

Practical Utility (15%)

8.5

Completeness (10%)

8.4

User Satisfaction (20%)

8.2

Decision Usefulness (15%)

8.4

Best for

▸Migrating teams from GitFlow or long-lived feature branches to trunk-based development
▸Setting up merge queues and pre-merge CI pipelines under 10 minutes
▸Implementing feature flag architecture for deployment-release decoupling
▸Designing Ship/Show/Ask review policies for different change risk levels
▸Optimizing DORA metrics through trunk-based development adoption

What you'll get

●Detailed migration roadmap from GitFlow with specific branch policy changes, timeline, and risk mitigation strategies
●Complete CI pipeline architecture with parallel test stages, flaky test quarantine, and sub-10-minute execution targets
●Feature flag implementation guide with release/experiment/ops/permission toggle categories and lifecycle management

Not designed for ↓

×Managing traditional GitFlow or release branch workflows
×Code review content quality assessment or technical architecture decisions
×Feature flag business logic or A/B testing statistical analysis
×General CI/CD tool selection without trunk-based development context

Expects

Current team branching model details, deployment frequency, merge conflict rates, and CI pipeline performance metrics.

Returns

Step-by-step trunk-based development implementation plan with specific branch policies, CI pipeline design, feature flag architecture, and DORA metrics improvement targets.

Evidence Policy

Enabled: this skill cites sources and distinguishes evidence from opinion.

trunk-based-developmentcontinuous-deliveryfeature-flagsci-cdbranching-strategydora-metricsmerge-queueprogressive-deliverygitflow-migrationrelease-engineeringdevopsdeployment-automation

Research Foundation: 7 sources (2 books, 2 official docs, 2 industry frameworks, 1 web)

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Version History

v1.0.02/16/2026

Initial release

Prerequisites

Use these skills first for best results.

Git Workflow StrategistGold

Works well with

Blue-Green Deployment OrchestratorGold CI/CD Pipeline DesignerGold Feature Flag Management ExpertGold GitOps Workflow DesignerGold Release Engineering SpecialistGold

Need more depth?

Specialist skills that go deeper in areas this skill touches.

Chaos Engineering PractitionerGold Canary Release GovernanceGold Observability Pipeline DesignerGold

Common Workflows

Complete Trunk-Based Development Implementation

Full migration from traditional branching to trunk-based development with progressive deployment capabilities

Git Workflow Strategist→trunk-based-delivery-engineer→Feature Flag Management Expert→Canary Release Governance

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