Pacer: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/ship/SKILL.md

ship is a skill for Claude Code from EricAndrechek/Pacer. It costs 138 tokens per session (1,480 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A release procedure for Pacer, a software project, that guides maintainers from a local install to a published version. It includes version changes, release notes, a pull request, tagging, and artifact checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when cutting or publishing a Pacer release, including choosing the version bump, reviewing notes after installation, landing the change, and checking the published package.
Why use it?
It gives the release process one approval point and handles the later waiting and verification steps automatically.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: mentions subagents; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

This is EricAndrechek/Pacer's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on Pacer itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything Pacer configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to EricAndrechek/Pacer. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/EricAndrechek/Pacer/main/.claude/skills/ship/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/EricAndrechek/Pacer

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 138 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,480 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.
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 $0.00138 $0.01480
Opus 5.5 $0.00055 $0.00592
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00028 $0.00296
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00148

Measured 21d ago against content hash d6b96ca94dfa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 21d 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.

.claude/skills/ship/SKILL.md · 117 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 117 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ship a Pacer release

This skill is the orchestration and the gate. The deterministic plumbing — computing the next version, tagging, watching the Release workflow, verifying the published artifact — is in bin/ship.sh. Read docs/releasing.md for the pipeline and one-time setup.

There is exactly ONE human gate: a single approval right after a local install. Everything after it is autonomous and backgrounded. The whole point is that a release costs almost no attention (and almost no expensive model tokens): the waiting and verifying happen in a backgrounded script, and the draft/review chores go to a cheap model.

0 · Before a release (during the work)

  • Branches and PRs are your judgement — stack/rename branches freely as scope grows, push for backup whenever. Do not open the PR yet, and never tag/merge here.
  • When the work is done, make install so the maintainer can see it live. Stop there.

1 · The gate — right after make install is live

  1. bin/ship.sh preflight → prints the suggested bump (patch, or minor if a @Model/schema change is detected — you confirm; minor = a SwiftData reset) and the next version.
  2. bin/ship.sh notes <version> → previews the exact notes CI will publish (--generate-notes), so what you show matches what ships.
  3. Surface bump + notes:
    • Not pre-authorized → ask once with AskUserQuestion (it push- notifies the maintainer and blocks). Offer: ship it · hold · change the bump. This is the only AskUserQuestion in the flow.
    • Pre-authorized — the kickoff request already said to ship ("…and release it", "ship it autonomously", "merge and release") → send a PushNotification FYI with the bump + notes, then proceed.

The only other permitted interruption anywhere is a genuine implementation/ direction fork you shouldn't guess on.

2 · Prep — into the PR, before merge

Do the release housekeeping and commit it to the branch before merging (so the shipped PR is self-contained):

Read the full file on GitHub · 117 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. 21d ago Changed · +8 lines d6b96ca94dfa
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +2 lines fc96fd626e38
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 107 lines · 138 tokens per session scan A 6895b0c10d93

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ship is a skill published in the GitHub repository EricAndrechek/Pacer (11 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 138 tokens to every session and 1,480 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-31.