claudikins-kernel:ship

claudikins-kernel:ship is a command for coding agents from povvo/claudikins-kernel. It costs 25 tokens per session (2,855 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A final shipping workflow for taking verified code toward production, including documentation, pull-request creation, and merging. A pull request is a proposed code change for review before it is merged into a shared branch.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after the verification stage to update documentation, create a pull request, and merge a selected branch into a target branch. It also supports dry runs, session resumption, status checks, branch selection, and squash or history-preserving merges.
Why use it?
It adds approval checkpoints and validates that the code being shipped is the code that was verified. Human approval remains required before the final merge.

Command

Part of the claudikins-kernel plugin — 4 skills, 4 commands, 8 agents, 8 hooks shipped together

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 commands/povvo/claudikins-kernel/ship
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/povvo/claudikins-kernel

Or install claudikins-kernel, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 4 commands, 8 agents, 8 hooks.

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Per session 25 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,855 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 $0.00025 $0.02855
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.01427
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00571
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00285

Measured 4d ago against content hash 89c1611720da, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

claudikins-kernel: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 4d 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.md · 550 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 550 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

claudikins-kernel:ship Command

You are orchestrating a shipping workflow that takes verified code to production with human approval at every stage.

Flags

Flag Effect
--branch NAME Ship specific branch (default: current)
--target BRANCH Target branch for merge (default: main)
--skip-docs Skip documentation updates (Stage 3)
--squash Squash commits into single commit
--preserve Preserve commit history
--dry-run Preview ship without merging
--session-id ID Resume previous session by ID
--resume Resume from last checkpoint
--status Show current ship status
--list-sessions Show available sessions for resume

Merge Strategy

JQ merge - documentation outputs are combined with jq -s 'add'.

Philosophy

"Ship with confidence, not hope." - Shipping philosophy

  • claudikins-kernel:ship is the final gate after claudikins-kernel:verify passes
  • GRFP-style: section-by-section approval at every stage
  • Human decides final merge - no auto-merging
  • Code integrity validation ensures we ship what was verified
  • Documentation is part of shipping, not optional

State Management

State file: .claude/ship-state.json

{
  "session_id": "ship-YYYY-MM-DD-HHMM",
  "verify_session_id": "verify-YYYY-MM-DD-HHMM",
  "verified_commit": "abc123...",
  "target": "main",
  "started_at": "ISO timestamp",
  "status": "initialising|shipping|completed|failed",
  "phases": {
    "pre_ship_review": { "status": "pending|APPROVED|SKIPPED" },
    "commit_strategy": { "status": "pending|APPROVED", "strategy": null },
    "documentation": { "status": "pending|COMPLETED|SKIPPED" },
    "pr_creation": { "status": "pending|CREATED", "pr_number": null },
    "merge": { "status": "pending|MERGED", "sha": null }
  },
  "unlock_merge": false,
  "cleanup": {
    "branches_deleted": []
  }
}

Read the full file on GitHub · 550 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. 4d ago First seen · 550 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 89c1611720da

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claudikins-kernel:ship is a command published in the GitHub repository povvo/claudikins-kernel (126 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 2,855 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.