# Passing parameters to plugins in CI/CD

**URL:** <https://forum.serverless.com/t/passing-parameters-to-plugins-in-ci-cd/11629>\
**Category:** Serverless Framework\
**Tags:** variables\
**Created:** [June 1, 2020, 12:16am UTC](https://forum.serverless.com/t/passing-parameters-to-plugins-in-ci-cd/11629 "2020-06-01T00:16:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![daninutero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@daninutero](https://forum.serverless.com/u/daninutero)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2020, 12:16am UTC](https://forum.serverless.com/t/passing-parameters-to-plugins-in-ci-cd/11629/1 "2020-06-01T00:16:48Z")

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Hey folks, new to serverless and trying to use the CI/CD functionality to deploy my backend and frontend (all in one serverless file). I seem to be running into an issue where profile-level parameters that are accessed just fine when running `serverless deploy` turn up an error when using `serverless-plugin-scripts` to run `serverless client build && serverless client deploy --no-confirm` in the `'deploy:finalize'` hook.

The specific error I get is `Variable dependency failure: variable 'param:env' references Serverless Parameters but using that service requires a concrete value to be called.`

Is there a way around this? How else could I pass a staging variable to my plugins?

Thank you!