ship-first

ship-first is a skill for Codex from bearded-illirian/trailmark. It costs 68 tokens per session (2,532 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A final completion process for a coding task or task section. It creates reports and user notes, updates task records and status files, deploys the result, runs a basic check, and closes the work when appropriate.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after execution in an automated or pipeline workflow to report results, deploy changes, run a smoke test, update tracking records, and finish the task.
Why use it?
It gathers the final work into a traceable record and checks that the delivered change is actually available and working. It also passes control to the next unfinished section when one exists.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents); $skill-name invocation.

Good fit Use it after execution in an automated or pipeline workflow to report results, deploy changes, run a smoke test, update tracking records, and finish the task.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bearded-illirian/trailmark/ship-first
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 bearded-illirian/trailmark --skill ship-first
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bearded-illirian/trailmark

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,532 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 150
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00068 $0.02532
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.01266
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00506
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00253

Measured 4d ago against content hash 92b3399f9511, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ship-first scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

| `backend` | curl / command from plan, check status + response |
adapters/codex/.agents/skills/ship-first/SKILL.md · 250 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 250 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ship-First Protocol

Final protocol after task execution. Receives context from the calling skill:

  • {task_id} — slug or task id
  • {artifact_type}fast-track or task
  • {log_dir} — path to the log folder
  • {task_file} — path to the original task file
  • {project}, {project_path} — from projects config
  • {title} — task name (one line)
  • {date} — current date
  • {arch_ref} — arch-map result (string or null)
  • {block_num} — current block number (per-block mode only)

Input

Complete block or task execution context — the report artifacts from plan-first, block-num or "final" marker, task_id, log_dir, project metadata.

Output

report-*.md + user-note-*.md per block; task-level aggregate user-note.md; STATUS.md in project root; routing.db row updated (status / arch_ref / closed_at); block or task marked done.

Hands off to

flow-first for the next open block (per-block mode), or — (terminal) when all blocks are done.


ship-first Modes

ship-first operates in two modes:

Per-block mode

Trigger: {block_num} is in context. Called by: plan-first after block execute. Does: writes report-N.M.md + user-note-N.M.md, deploys the block, runs smoke test, closes the block in task_blocks, then moves to the next block or switches to task-level mode.

Task-level mode

Trigger: {block_num} not passed or equals 'final'. Called by: decomposition orchestrators after all blocks are closed, or per-block ship-first when it sees no open blocks. Does: artifact completeness check, ui-ai-first if needed, aggregate final user-note, "close?" question, guide?, arch-map, routing.db update, propagate arch_ref, parent chain check, STATUS + sessions.

Mode determination

If {block_num} in context → per-block. Otherwise → task-level. Modes are mutually exclusive.


Per-block mode

Step B1 — Write report-N.M.md

Determine round {R}. Create {log_dir}/report-{N.M}.{R}.md with sections: What was done / What was notable / Next. Register in task_artifacts with artifact_type='report'.

Read the full file on GitHub · 250 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 Changed · +18 lines 92b3399f9511
  2. 8d ago First seen · 232 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A 4d35d357dcdc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ship-first is a skill published in the GitHub repository bearded-illirian/trailmark (19 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 2,532 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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