ship

ship is a skill for Claude Code from epicsagas/epic-harness. It costs 37 tokens per session (757 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A release workflow for testing changes in a clean copy of a project and preparing a pull request, a proposed change for review in a code repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run isolated verification, check repository cleanliness, create a pull request with the specification and audit report, monitor continuous-integration checks, and fix failures.
Why use it?
It catches build, test, lint, formatting, and integration problems before changes are submitted for review.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the epic plugin — 28 skills, 6 hooks shipped together

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/epicsagas/epic-harness/ship
Any agent
npx skills add epicsagas/epic-harness --skill ship
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/epicsagas/epic-harness

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install epic, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills, 6 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for ship

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/epicsagas/epic-harness/ship.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/epicsagas/epic-harness/ship)
Your own site
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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 757 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 5.1 $0.00037 $0.00757
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00378
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00151
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00076

Measured 6d ago against content hash 9328c912bd54, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, 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 6d 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 · 112 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 112 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ship — Ship It

CRITICAL: Run HARNESS_DIR=$(epic-harness path) first. NEVER use .harness/ in the project directory.

Process

Step 0: Prerequisites

Load the spec for PR content:

ls -t $HARNESS_DIR/specs/SPEC-*.md | head -1

Gate: audit must have passed. If no audit report exists, invoke the audit skill before continuing.

Step 1: Pre-ship Verification

1a. Isolated Integration Test Launch an agent with isolation: "worktree" to verify in a clean environment:

  • Run full build from scratch (cargo build --release / npm run build / etc.)
  • Run complete test suite
  • Run linter and formatter checks
  • Verify no uncommitted artifacts

Gate: If isolated test fails → STOP. "Fix with /go, then re-run /audit before shipping."

Step 2: Git Hygiene

  • Ensure all changes are committed (Conventional Commits)
  • Rebase on latest base branch if needed
  • Squash fixup commits if appropriate

Step 3: Create PR

gh pr create --title "<goal from spec>" --body "$(cat <<'EOF'
## Summary
<Goal from spec — what and why, not how>

## Spec
- Spec ID: SPEC-{timestamp}
- Requirements: R1, R2, ...

## Changes
<bullet list of key changes>

## Acceptance Criteria Verified
- AC1: ✅
- AC2: ✅

## Audit Report
<paste full Audit Report>

## Test Plan
- [ ] Unit tests pass
- [ ] Integration tests pass
- [ ] Manual verification done
EOF
)"

Step 4: CI Verification

gh pr checks <PR_NUMBER> --watch

If CI fails, diagnose and fix automatically. Retry up to 2 times.

Step 5: Report

## Ship Report
- Spec: SPEC-{timestamp} ({goal_slug})
- PR: <URL>
- CI: [PASS/FAIL/N/A]
- Ready to merge: [YES/NO]
- Action needed: <if any>

If inside /orbit: Return control to orbit — it will run evolve automatically.

If standalone: Suggest "Run /evolve to analyze this session."

Anti-Rationalization

Excuse Rebuttal What to do instead
"CI will catch it" CI doesn't catch everything Run isolated test locally first
"The PR description doesn't matter" It's the permanent record of why Include spec + audit report
"I'll merge without CI" CI is a safety net Wait for CI, fix failures

Read the full file on GitHub · 112 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. 6d ago First seen · 112 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 9328c912bd54

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ship is a skill published in the GitHub repository epicsagas/epic-harness (18 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 757 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.