shipping-and-launch

shipping-and-launch is a skill for Claude Code from aneja5/forge-skills. It costs 46 tokens per session (907 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A pre-release checklist for deciding whether a change is ready for production. It checks release risks and requires a rollback plan before deployment.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before production deployments, release tags, or significant feature launches to make a documented go/no-go decision.
Why use it?
It catches launch blockers that ordinary tests may miss, such as missing monitoring, infrastructure problems, security gaps, or an untested rollback.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the forge-skills plugin — 42 skills, 36 commands, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it before production deployments, release tags, or significant feature launches to make a documented go/no-go decision.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aneja5/forge-skills/shipping-and-launch
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.

Any agent
npx skills add aneja5/forge-skills --skill shipping-and-launch
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aneja5/forge-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install forge-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 42 skills, 36 commands, 1 hook.

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README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/aneja5/forge-skills/shipping-and-launch"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/aneja5/forge-skills/shipping-and-launch/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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.

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Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/aneja5/forge-skills/shipping-and-launch"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/aneja5/forge-skills/shipping-and-launch.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 907 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 $0.00046 $0.00907
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00453
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00181
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00091

Measured 7d ago against content hash 9bff0c4e866f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

shipping-and-launch 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 7d 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.

skills/shipping-and-launch/SKILL.md · 105 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 105 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Shipping and Launch

Overview

A go/no-go gate before production. Six check domains. Any Critical finding is a hard blocker. Any Important finding must be explicitly accepted before proceeding. Rollback plan defined before deploy begins.

When to Use

  • Before any production deployment
  • Before tagging a release
  • Before a significant feature goes live
  • /ship command invoked

When NOT to Use

  • Local development or staging — this gate is for production
  • Emergency hotfix in progress — run a compressed version of domains 1-3 only

Common Rationalizations

Thought Reality
"Tests pass, we're good to ship" Tests don't check observability, infra config, or rollback plan
"We'll add monitoring after launch" Monitoring must exist before launch to detect launch failures
"The rollback plan is obvious" Obvious plans aren't written down — write it down
"Security review can happen next sprint" Post-launch security reviews happen after breaches
"The README is good enough" If someone can't deploy this without you, the README isn't good enough

Red Flags

  • No monitoring or alerting configured for the new surface area
  • Rollback plan is "redeploy the previous version" with no specifics
  • Environment variables not verified in production environment
  • Database migrations not tested on a production-size data snapshot
  • No CHANGELOG entry for a user-visible change

Six Check Domains

1. Code Quality

  • Full test suite passes in CI
  • Build clean — no lint errors, no type errors
  • No TODO, FIXME, or debug logs committed
  • No dead code or commented-out blocks
  • Bundle size within acceptable range (if frontend)

2. Security

  • All user inputs validated and sanitized
  • No secrets in source code, logs, or error messages
  • Authentication required before authorization before business logic
  • Security headers configured (CSP, HSTS, X-Frame-Options if applicable)
  • Dependency audit clean (npm audit / pip audit / equivalent)

Read the full file on GitHub · 105 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. 7d ago First seen · 105 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 9bff0c4e866f

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shipping-and-launch is a skill published in the GitHub repository aneja5/forge-skills (3 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 907 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 2026-09-03.

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