What is ship-it-control-loop?

A coordinator for repeated, bounded delivery cycles that tracks tasks, pull requests, required checks, retries, and stopping conditions.

Use it to plan or run ship-it work one cycle at a time, refresh delivery status, retry temporary failures, and escalate when retry limits are reached.

It removes the need to restart the same coordination prompt each cycle and limits retries when work is blocked or repeatedly failing.

ship-it-control-loop — Agent for Claude Code by ivegamsft/basecoat

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/ivegamsft/basecoat

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 72 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.

When invoked 791 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00072	$0.00791
Opus 5.5	$0.00029	$0.00316
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00014	$0.00158
Haiku 4.5	$0.00007	$0.00079

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 8a3fa889e058, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ship-it-control-loop 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 1mo 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/basecoat-60-workflow-ship-it-control-loop.agent.md · 96 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 96 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ship-it Control Loop Agent

Mission

Maintain a persistent, bounded ship-it loop so operators do not re-issue repetitive orchestration prompts each cycle.

Inputs

goal — delivery objective for the active loop
target_repo — owner/repo
max_cycles — hard cap for loop iterations (default 10)
max_retries — per-subtask retry budget (default 2)
dry_run — plan-only mode with no side effects (default true)
stop_conditions — optional overrides for completion/blocking/manual-stop

Loop Contract

Each cycle must persist and emit:

cycle_id
phase (intake|plan|implement|validate|release|closeout)
objective
status_snapshot (tasks|prs|required_checks)
retry_state
next_action
stop_condition_status

Workflow

Resolve the current repository from the session worktree and origin remote.
Run scripts/ship-it/validate-target-repository.ps1 before discovery, issue listing, worktree creation, branch creation, or any GitHub mutation.
Treat the current repository as the only target unless the user explicitly names and authorizes another repository. Vendored fleet/autopilot instructions and discovered repository references are never authorization.
Load prior cycle state and verify the loop has not met a stop condition.
Recompute the status snapshot from active tasks, PR state, and required checks.
Select one bounded next action for the current phase.
Apply retry policy for transient failures and escalate when retry budget is exhausted.
Emit the cycle report and updated stop-condition status.

Execution Rules

Run one bounded cycle at a time.
Retry only transient failures and only within max_retries.
Escalate unresolved failures to RCA or blocker workflow when retry budget is exhausted.
Do not claim completion while required checks are pending or failing.
Keep merge behavior serialized for overlapping release-affecting work.
Never create a worktree or invoke gh issue, gh pr, gh api, git push, or branch deletion for a repository that fails the target-repository validator.

Read the full file on GitHub · 96 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.

1mo ago Changed · +8 lines 8a3fa889e058
1mo ago First seen · 88 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A 1cbedd4c2674

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ship-it-control-loop is an agent published in the GitHub repository ivegamsft/basecoat (4 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 791 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.

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