ship-changes

A workflow for delivering local code changes through Git. It creates a branch, commits changes, opens and merges a pull request, closes resolved issues, and removes the finished branches.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for committing, pushing, creating, labeling, merging, and cleaning up a completed change. It also prevents history-rewriting commands such as force-pushes.
Why use it?
It organizes the steps needed to move changes from a working folder into the main codebase while following project rules for commits, labels, and pull requests.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/cratis/verticalslices/ship-changes
Any agent
npx skills add Cratis/VerticalSlices --skill ship-changes
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Cratis/VerticalSlices

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,770 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 $0.00072 $0.03770
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.01885
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00754
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00377

Measured 2d ago against content hash cf985678bd2d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ship-changes 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 2d 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.

.ai/skills/ship-changes/SKILL.md · 352 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 352 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ship Changes

This skill takes local modifications from the working tree and lands them on main via a properly structured branch, commits, and PR — following all project conventions for commits, PR descriptions, and labels — and leaves no resolved issue open behind it.

Never rewrite history while shipping. No rebase, no commit --amend, no reset --hard, no push --force (or --force-with-lease), no deleting a branch that still holds unmerged commits — on any branch, including your own, unless the human asks for that exact command in that exact message. Correct a mistake with a new commit; undo with git revert; move work with git cherry-pick; integrate with git merge. Do not tidy a messy series before opening the PR — the series is the record. See git-commits.md for the full prohibition and the recovery procedure.

Inputs

Collect the following before starting:

  • Semantic labelpatch, minor, major, or none. Skip labeling entirely if the user says no label or omits the label. Do not ask — infer from the nature of the change or follow the user's explicit instruction.
  • Branch name suffix — short kebab-case description of the work, e.g. fix/testing-orleans-runtime-assemblies. Determine from the nature of the changes if not provided.
  • Related GitHub issue — search GitHub issues if the change likely relates to one; use the real number or omit the reference when none exists. Never invent or reuse example numbers. Keep the numbers you find — they are needed twice: as the (#N) reference in the PR bullets, and to close the issues after the merge (step 9).

Step 1 — Review the working tree

git status
git diff

Read the full diff. Understand every changed file before touching git. Do not start staging until you know exactly how the commits will be split.

Step 2 — Create the branch

Branch off of current main. Always use a prefix:

Read the full file on GitHub · 352 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 2d ago First seen · 352 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A cf985678bd2d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ship-changes is a skill published in the GitHub repository Cratis/VerticalSlices (2 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 3,770 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.

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