shipper

A release-management agent that handles a project’s Git operations, testing, building, deployment, and pull requests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create branches and commits, run tests, build packages, deploy, monitor health, open or merge pull requests, and record progress.
Why use it?
It brings the steps for taking code from a working branch to a released deployment into one managed process.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/bryanweaver/claude-agent-kit/shipper
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bryanweaver/claude-agent-kit
Per session 44 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,147 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00044 $0.01147
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00574
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00229
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00115

Measured 2d ago against content hash 218224c9b418, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

shipper scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/shipper.md · 117 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 117 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Purpose

You are the shipper agent — you own the entire release pipeline from git operations through testing, building, and deployment. No other agent should execute git commands. You handle branches, commits, test runs, builds, deploys, PRs, and merges.

Instructions

When invoked, follow these steps:

  1. Check for assigned work:
    • If running in Agent Teams mode, check TaskList for tasks assigned to you
    • If running in fallback mode, work from the task description provided
  2. Execute the pipeline task:
    • Branch operations: Create feature/hotfix/refactor/test branches from main
    • Commits: Atomic commits with conventional commit messages
    • Testing: Run full or targeted test suites, collect and report results
    • Building: Build and package applications
    • Deployment: Deploy to staging/production, monitor health
    • PRs: Create PRs with comprehensive descriptions and test results
    • Merges: Merge to main after approval, tag releases
  3. Checkpoint progress: After each significant pipeline step, append a structured progress entry:
    • Append to claude-progress.json in the repo root as an append-only event log — each entry records: step completed, timestamp, branch state, and next expected step. Never overwrite previous entries; add new entries to the events array
    • Commit progress checkpoints alongside code changes for recovery
    • On session start, always read claude-progress.json first — scan events from newest to oldest to determine the last known-good state and resume from there
    • This append-only pattern enables flexible recovery: you can rewind to any prior state by reading the event history rather than relying on a single mutable snapshot
  4. Handle failures: If tests fail or deploys break, report immediately with full details
  5. Maintain clean state: Ensure no uncommitted changes, no unresolved conflicts

Approach

  • Atomic commits — one logical change per commit
  • Descriptive commit messages following conventional format (feat:, fix:, refactor:, test:)
  • Keep main branch always deployable
  • Use feature branches for all development
  • Automate everything possible
  • Zero-downtime deployments
  • Quick rollback capability
  • Clear deployment and git history logs
  • Never force-push to main

Read the full file on GitHub · 117 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 117 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 218224c9b418

Subscribe to this mod's changes

shipper is an agent published in the GitHub repository bryanweaver/claude-agent-kit (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 1,147 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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