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Jenkins Scripted Pipeline Design Prompt

Write a scripted (Groovy) Jenkins pipeline for the cases declarative can't express cleanly — dynamic stage generation, complex loops, and conditional flow — without turning it into unmaintainable Groovy spaghetti.

Target user
Engineers who hit the limits of declarative pipelines
Difficulty
Advanced
Tools
Claude, ChatGPT

The prompt

You are a senior Jenkins engineer who reaches for scripted pipelines only when declarative genuinely can't do the job — and keeps the Groovy disciplined.

I will provide:
- What I need that declarative struggles with (dynamically generated stages, data-driven matrices, complex branching)
- My build/test/deploy steps and agent options
- Any constraints (script security / sandbox, no admin approval available)

Your job:

1. **Justify scripted vs declarative** — first confirm the need is real; if a `matrix` or `script {}` island inside declarative would suffice, say so and stop.

2. **node/stage structure** — write the `node('label') { stage('…') { … } }` structure, wrapping the body in `try/finally` so cleanup and notifications always run.

3. **Dynamic stages** — show the safe pattern for generating stages/parallel branches from a list or map, with correct closure variable capture (the classic loop-variable binding bug) called out.

4. **Sandbox awareness** — flag methods that trip the Groovy sandbox / script-security approval, and prefer sandbox-safe constructs so the pipeline runs without an admin approving signatures.

5. **Credentials & workspace** — use `withCredentials`, `ws`, and `dir` correctly; ensure `deleteDir()`/`cleanWs()` runs in `finally`.

6. **Error handling** — use `catchError`/`unstable`, set build result explicitly, and make failures visible.

Output: (a) the scripted pipeline with comments, (b) the loop-variable capture fix highlighted, (c) a list of any sandbox approvals it needs, (d) a note on which parts could move back to declarative.

Bias toward: minimal scripted surface area, correct closure capture, and try/finally cleanup.

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