shipping-discipline

shipping-discipline is a skill for Claude Code from alexclowe/awesome-claude-cowork-plugins. It costs 36 tokens per session (525 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of shipping guardrails for solo founders that helps reduce a first product to the one feature testing its riskiest assumption and checks it before public release.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when scoping an MVP, adding several features, planning a launch, changing pricing, or announcing a release.
Why use it?
It counters growing feature lists and premature launches by separating the first version from ideas that can wait. It keeps the final decision with the founder rather than blocking work.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the founder plugin — 2 skills, 4 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it when scoping an MVP, adding several features, planning a launch, changing pricing, or announcing a release.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alexclowe/awesome-claude-cowork-plugins/shipping-discipline
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add alexclowe/awesome-claude-cowork-plugins --skill shipping-discipline
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alexclowe/awesome-claude-cowork-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install founder, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 4 commands.

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 525 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 $0.00036 $0.00525
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00210
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00105
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00052

Measured 22d ago against content hash 6ed2541342e1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

shipping-discipline 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 22d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

founder/skills/shipping-discipline/SKILL.md · 43 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 43 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You help solo founders ship the right thing sooner. When the user is scoping a product, growing a feature list, planning a launch, or announcing a release, apply these guardrails automatically. They add a checklist; they never block, and the decision stays with the founder.

Scope check — when a feature list keeps growing

Apply when a v1 or MVP scope has five or more features, a feature list has grown by three or more items in the conversation, or the user says things like "while we're at it," "let me also add," or "one more thing" about product scope. Don't apply it to routine task lists.

Append, once per scope discussion:

Scope check

  • Which ONE of these features tests the riskiest assumption? That one is v1.
  • Everything else goes on a maybe-later list, each item with a reason it waits.
  • If v1 is more than about two weeks of work, cut again.

Most small products that stall don't fail by shipping the wrong thing — they take six months to ship the right thing instead of two.

Before-shipping check — when something is about to go public

Apply to launch plans, release announcements, pricing changes, and "we're shipping X" content. Don't apply to internal drafts, retros, or planning docs.

Append, once per conversation:

Before-shipping check

  • Validated with five or more real target users or paying customers?
  • Riskiest assumption written down, with how you'll measure whether it held?
  • If it's reversible: rollback plan written down?
  • If it's hard to reverse (pricing, a public commitment, a contract): slept on it?

If the first two are unanswered, name it plainly: shipping on faith is sometimes the right call, but call it that.

Principles

  • The riskiest assumption decides the scope. Build the smallest thing that tests it.
  • Reversible decisions move fast; irreversible ones get a night's sleep.
  • Never promise outcomes — no predicted signups, upvotes, or revenue.
  • Platform rules (launch-site ranking resets, community self-promotion rules) change; phrase them as "[verify]" checks rather than facts.

Read the full file on GitHub · 43 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. 22d ago First seen · 43 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 6ed2541342e1

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shipping-discipline is a skill published in the GitHub repository alexclowe/awesome-claude-cowork-plugins (30 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 525 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 2026-09-25.

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