ship-lane

ship-lane is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from boringmarketer/kimi-first. It costs 64 tokens per session (826 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for taking a product change from development to a live customer release. It divides work into lanes such as backend changes, visible interface changes, and user activation, with evidence required before calling the work complete.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for planning implementation work, choosing the right review and testing evidence, deploying changes, and recording a live receipt that shows the result reached the customer.
Why use it?
It removes open-ended review cycles and unclear definitions of done. The process makes teams prove that a change works in the real product, not only in a review or local test.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Good fit It is for planning implementation work, choosing the right review and testing evidence, deploying changes, and recording a live receipt that shows the result reached the customer.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/boringmarketer/kimi-first/ship-lane
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 boringmarketer/kimi-first --skill ship-lane
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/boringmarketer/kimi-first

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 826 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00064 $0.00826
Opus 5.5 $0.00026 $0.00330
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00165
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00083

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 9d9d398792b6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ship-lane 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 1mo 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/ship-lane/SKILL.md · 34 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 34 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ship a lane (loop v3)

James, Sep 3 2026: "stop spending so much time on unnecessary review and ceremony … repeatable stuff … clear paths to productionizing." and "on other projects I've been stuck in endless loops instead of using repeatable smart workflows." This skill is the repeatable workflow. Apply it on every project.

0. Done means live

A feature is done when it is live for the real customer with a receipt (a row, a log line, a screenshot of the real account). Never when a review certifies it.

1. Classify before dispatch (never mix classes in one lane)

Class Contents Proof column (all of it, every time) Review
A rail migration, RPC, worker/runner, provider read/write, receipts acceptance at real cardinality · disposable-DB drill · runtime probe · red-first unit pins · apply + deploy same minute · post-apply script · one live receipt one adversarial pass (money/provider-write/credentials/customer-messages: highest effort)
B surface member-visible copy/cards/gestures film on the final tree · record derived by script · digest pin · SSR pin per sentence · deploy · live film green one design pass on frames (PASS/BLOCK)
C activation flags, secrets, schedulers on, first run on the customer runbook step · post-apply script · /ready · one live receipt none — the driver executes under standing authorization

2. One pass, one fix

Builder (codex terra, flat-rate) → proofs → ONE review pass with a CHECKLIST (the proof column + the WO deliverables; verdict per item with the pin that holds it) → ONE fix → merge. Residue goes to a weekly punch batch (one lane, one design pass). A second round exists only for a truth/custody BLOCK, and then only that item is re-checked. Certification by inspection is worth nothing; a pin that goes red is the certification.

3. Activation is supervised-first

If the rail has produced real, owner-approved output, it runs on its scheduler under a database spend ceiling + kill switch + the existing quality decision + receipts. Any "accepted packet" is generated from that real evidence by the finalizer, never a separate dogfood ceremony.

Read the full file on GitHub · 34 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. 1mo ago First seen · 34 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 9d9d398792b6

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ship-lane is a skill published in the GitHub repository boringmarketer/kimi-first (49 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 826 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-04.