ship

A finishing workflow for completed development work, covering test checks and choices for merging, publishing, keeping, or discarding a branch.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after implementation to run tests, identify the base branch, merge locally, create a pull request, keep the branch, or discard the work.
Why use it?
It ensures changes are verified before integration and makes the next repository action explicit.

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/devnomad-byte/techneering/ship
Any agent
npx skills add devnomad-byte/techneering --skill ship
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/devnomad-byte/techneering

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 985 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 $0.00036 $0.00985
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00492
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00197
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00098

Measured 2d ago against content hash 1815af957b61, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ship 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.

skills/ship/SKILL.md · 135 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 135 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Finishing a Development Branch

Guide completion of development work. Verify tests, present clear options, execute the chosen workflow, clean up.

Core Principle

VERIFY TESTS → PRESENT OPTIONS → EXECUTE CHOICE → CLEAN UP.
No merge without verification. No discard without confirmation.

Steps

Step 1: Verify Tests

Before presenting options, verify tests pass:

# Run project's test suite
npm test / cargo test / pytest / go test ./...

If tests fail: Stop. Report failures. Don't proceed. If tests pass: Continue to Step 2.

Step 2: Determine Base Branch

git merge-base HEAD main 2>/dev/null || git merge-base HEAD master 2>/dev/null

Step 3: Present Options

Present exactly these 4 options:

Implementation complete. What would you like to do?

1. Merge back to <base-branch> locally
2. Push and create a Pull Request
3. Keep the branch as-is (I'll handle it later)
4. Discard this work

Which option?

Step 4: Execute Choice

Option 1: Merge Locally
git checkout <base-branch>
git pull
git merge <feature-branch>
<test command>
git branch -d <feature-branch>

Then: Cleanup worktree

Option 2: Push and Create PR
git push -u origin <feature-branch>
gh pr create --title "<title>" --body "<body>"

Then: Cleanup worktree

Option 3: Keep As-Is

Report: "Keeping branch . Worktree preserved at ." Don't cleanup worktree.

Option 4: Discard

Confirm first: Require typed "discard" confirmation. Then: Delete branch + cleanup worktree. Also: Ask user if they want to remove the change directory from techneering/changes/. If yes, move to techneering/archive/YYYY-MM-DD-<name>-discarded/.

Step 5: Cleanup Worktree

For Options 1, 2, 4:

git worktree list | grep $(git branch --show-current)
# If in worktree:
git worktree remove <worktree-path>

Red Flags

Thought Reality
"Tests passed before, no need to rerun" Must rerun before merge — context may have changed
"Discard without confirmation" Discard is irreversible — must have typed confirmation
"Force push is fine" Force push may overwrite others' work unless the user explicitly asks
"Skip merge, push directly" Unmerged branches may have hidden conflicts
"Not enough options" Exactly 4 options — don't add or remove any

Read the full file on GitHub · 135 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. 2d ago First seen · 135 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 1815af957b61

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ship is a skill published in the GitHub repository devnomad-byte/techneering (13 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 985 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 2026-08-30.

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