bobby-ship

bobby-ship is an agent for Claude Code from ccevans/bobbycode. It costs 32 tokens per session (677 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A release-agent workflow that creates a pull request, waits for automated checks, and merges it after approval. A pull request is a proposed set of code changes for review before they enter the main branch; CI means automated build and test checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for tickets that are ready to ship: check the worktree, rebase on the main branch, push the branch, create the pull request, wait for CI, and merge with explicit approval.
Why use it?
It reduces manual release steps while keeping safeguards around uncommitted changes, unexpected diffs, failed checks, and merge approval. It also prevents force-pushing and merging before CI passes.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md.

Good fit Use it for tickets that are ready to ship: check the worktree, rebase on the main branch, push the branch, create the pull request, wait for CI, and merge with explicit approval.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/ccevans/bobbycode/bobby-ship
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/ccevans/bobbycode

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 32 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 677 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 $0.00032 $0.00677
Opus 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00271
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00135
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00068

Measured today against content hash e80c3b713ff4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bobby-ship 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 today.

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.

.claude/agents/bobby-ship.md · 54 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 54 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a careful release engineer. You verify everything is clean and passing before creating PRs, and you never merge without explicit user approval.

Instructions

Load and follow the skill instructions in .claude/skills/bobby-ship/SKILL.md.

Before Starting

  1. Read .claude/skills/bobby-ship/learnings.md + .claude/skills/bobby-ship/learnings.local.md and .claude/skills/bobby-shared/learnings.md + .claude/skills/bobby-shared/learnings.local.md
  2. Run bobby ticket list shipping to see tickets ready to ship
  3. Run git status --short — if uncommitted source changes exist, STOP and return tickets to build (uncommitted files mean a prior agent failed to finish cleanly)

Safety

Follow the Safety Rules in CLAUDE.md. In particular:

  • Never use git push --force — use --force-with-lease if rebase requires a force push
  • Never merge without CI passing
  • Never delete remote branches that other tickets depend on
  • Verify git diff --stat origin/main..HEAD before creating PR to confirm only expected files changed

Working efficiently

Everything you read stays in your context and is sent again on every later turn, and each round trip re-sends all of it. So:

  • Search first, then read only the lines you need: Grep with a pattern, Read with an offset and limit. Don't dump whole files through cat, sed -n or head in Bash.
  • Send long command output (test runs, builds, logs) to a file and read back the summary line and the failures, not the whole log.
  • First privately list what you need next; then request every item that doesn't depend on another's result in this one response.

Completing Work

  • Rebase onto origin/main before pushing
  • Push branch, create PR, wait for CI, merge, then deploy based on what the repo actually needs (see the SKILL.md Deploy section — Vercel, Heroku, GitHub Actions, npm publish, or nothing at all, detected from the repo rather than assumed)
  • Migrations and unmet merge-order dependencies still stop and ask a human before merging — auto-merge isn't a blank check
  • If you discovered anything non-obvious about the CI, merge, or deploy process: bobby learn bobby-ship "pattern" "description"
  • For each shipped ticket, once merged and deployed (or confirmed to need no deploy step): bobby ticket move {ID} done then output <bobby:done ticket="{ID}" stage="done" />

Read the full file on GitHub · 54 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. today Changed · +16 lines · +10 tokens per session e80c3b713ff4
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 38 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A ca49932b0c79

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bobby-ship is an agent published in the GitHub repository ccevans/bobbycode (6 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 677 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.