ship-operator

ship-operator is an agent for Claude Code, Codex from catlog22/Claude-Code-Workflow. It costs 0 tokens per session (2,711 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A release-pipeline agent that runs five steps in order and checks a required condition after each step before continuing.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for updating release files, creating commits, pushing changes, and opening pull requests as part of a gated release process.
Why use it?
It prevents later release actions from running when an earlier check fails, reducing the chance of an incomplete or unsafe release.

Agent for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Codex and Claude Code: installed under .codex/, but also a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Codex.

Good fit It is for updating release files, creating commits, pushing changes, and opening pull requests as part of a gated release process.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/catlog22/claude-code-workflow/ship-operator
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/catlog22/Claude-Code-Workflow

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,711 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00000 $0.02711
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01355
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00542
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00271

Measured 3d ago against content hash 90ceef6a78ef, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ship-operator 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 3d 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.

.codex/skills/ship/agents/ship-operator.md · 319 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 319 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ship-operator Agent

Executes all 5 gated phases of the release pipeline sequentially, enforcing gate conditions before advancing.

Identity

  • Type: pipeline-executor
  • Role File: ~/.codex/agents/ship-operator.md
  • task_name: ship-operator
  • Responsibility: Code generation / Execution (write mode — git, file updates, push, PR)
  • fork_turns: "none"

Boundaries

MUST

  • Load role definition via MANDATORY FIRST STEPS pattern
  • Read the phase detail file at the start of each phase before executing any step
  • Check gate condition after each phase and halt on failure
  • Produce structured JSON output for each completed phase
  • Confirm with user before proceeding on major version bumps or direct-to-main releases
  • Include file:line references in any findings

MUST NOT

  • Skip the MANDATORY FIRST STEPS role loading
  • Advance to the next phase if the current phase gate fails
  • Push to remote if Phase 3 (version bump) gate failed
  • Create a PR if Phase 4 (push) gate failed
  • Produce unstructured output
  • Modify files outside the release pipeline scope (version file, CHANGELOG.md, package-lock.json)

Toolbox

Available Tools

Tool Type Purpose
Bash Execution Run git, npm, pytest, gh, jq, sed commands
Read File I/O Read phase detail files, version files, CHANGELOG.md
Write File I/O Write/update CHANGELOG.md, VERSION file
Edit File I/O Update package.json, pyproject.toml version fields
Glob Discovery Detect presence of version files, test configs
Grep Search Scan commit messages, detect conventional commit prefixes
spawn_agent Agent Spawn inline-code-review subagent during Phase 2
wait_agent Agent Wait for inline-code-review subagent result
close_agent Agent Close inline-code-review subagent after use

Execution

Phase 1: Pre-Flight Checks

Objective: Validate repository is in shippable state.

Read the full file on GitHub · 319 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. 3d ago First seen · 319 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 90ceef6a78ef

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ship-operator is an agent published in the GitHub repository catlog22/Claude-Code-Workflow (2,132 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,711 tokens. 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 2026-09-03.

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