ship-and-observe

ship-and-observe is a command for Claude Code from kensaurus/cursor-kenji. It costs 31 tokens per session (393 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for taking approved code through production release and then checking that the intended revision is live and stable. Production is the environment real users access.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to identify the release revision and deployment method, deploy it, verify the live build, test critical production flows, monitor the release, and report whether it stayed stable.
Why use it?
It covers the gap between code being merged and users receiving a verified release, including smoke tests, monitoring, and rollback when release signals cross set limits.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to identify the release revision and deployment method, deploy it, verify the live build, test critical production flows, monitor the release, and report whether it stayed stable.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/kensaurus/cursor-kenji/ship-and-observe
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/kensaurus/cursor-kenji

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 31 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 393 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 $0.00031 $0.00393
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00197
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00079
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00039

Measured 8d ago against content hash be58b3c1f398, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ship-and-observe 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 8d 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.

commands/ship-and-observe.md · 36 lines

What it actually says

Ship & Observe

Take merged, repository-green code all the way to a verified, monitored production release for a running app. For npm package releases use /deploy-npm instead.

Follow the workflow-ship-and-observe skill end to end. In brief:

  1. Pin the target and revision — confirm the exact merged SHA and the environment/provider (discover from vercel.json, fly.toml, Dockerfile, CI deploy workflows, EAS, Terraform, etc.). Identify the deploy mechanism, backend dependencies, an executable rollback plan, and the signals + thresholds that mean "roll back".
  2. Preflight — repo green, revision merged; deploy and verify backend dependencies first (migrations, functions, RLS, secrets).
  3. Deploy via the real pipeline and wait for a terminal state.
  4. Verify the revision is live — the deployed build must equal the intended SHA (deployment metadata / version endpoint / asset hash), not just a 200. Smoke-test critical flows against production with evidence.
  5. Observe the defined stability window; crossing a threshold triggers rollback or hotfix.
  6. Report STABLE / ROLLED BACK / HOTFIXED / BLOCKED with evidence.

Shipping is not merging. Deployed-verified needs a proven live revision; observed-stable needs the monitoring window to pass.

The full playbook lives in the workflow-ship-and-observe skill.

Related: deploy-verify, full-stack-ship-discipline, iterate-post-launch, workflow-feedback-to-closure.

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. 8d ago First seen · 36 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A be58b3c1f398

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ship-and-observe is a command published in the GitHub repository kensaurus/cursor-kenji (9 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 393 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.