ship-item

ship-item is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from EvolveHQ/docflow. It costs 83 tokens per session (2,595 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow skill for completing a planned documentation task in a repository and recording it as shipped.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run the required verification, integrate the work, move its todo file to done, update decision records, and refresh repository indexes and logs.
Why use it?
It turns a finished plan item into a checked, integrated, documented repository change.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the docflow plugin — 14 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to run the required verification, integrate the work, move its todo file to done, update decision records, and refresh repository indexes and logs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/evolvehq/docflow/ship-item
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 EvolveHQ/docflow --skill ship-item
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/EvolveHQ/docflow

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install docflow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills.

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Per session 83 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,595 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 $0.00083 $0.02595
Opus 5.5 $0.00033 $0.01038
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00519
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00260

Measured 1mo ago against content hash b929994d4bf1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ship-item 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.

plugins/docflow/skills/ship-item/SKILL.md · 206 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 206 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ship-item

Complete one queue item in the order required by the repository. Prepared completion on an unmerged PR is ready, not shipped. Never infer merge authorisation from a request to prepare or update the PR.

Context and selection

Read AGENTS and CONVENTIONS for integration branch/remote, gate, coordination mode, signing, trailers and guardrails. Resolve adr/, plan/, INDEX.md and _agent/ against the recorded root. Select the named item, otherwise the lowest eligible one, and read its owning decisions and criteria in full. Require Accepted ownership before preparing completion. If a linked PR already contains the completion move, verify that prepared state instead of repeating the move or rejecting its prepared Implemented status.

Inspect worktree cleanliness and item ownership. Preserve unrelated edits. Only finish the named item; never repair unrelated decisions or accept Proposed ones to make the gate pass. A literal branch named claim, an invalid item key, or a source with no matching item is not a valid claim. Validate branch names with git check-ref-format --branch.

Choose the mode

  • Integrating mode: a named claim/<item-key> under separate-worktree direct integration. Read the item from its fetched remote tip. Use the detached integration procedure below, never an executor or operator tree.
  • Default direct mode: verified work already on the integration branch, or an ordinary work branch that can safely fast-forward into its clean integration checkout. Shared-checkout work stays sequential in that tree.
  • PR mode: use the actual PR branch. A single writer uses an ordinary work branch, not an invented claim ref. Shared-checkout ordinary PR work serialises the whole checkout; shared-checkout PR waves are unsupported.

Default direct completion

  1. Fetch/prune and confirm the integration base and source. Run the gate and require exit zero. If needed, fast-forward the verified work branch into the clean integration checkout without moving a branch held by another worktree. Do not push yet. If safe integration is unavailable, stop with the precise blocker rather than changing another checkout.
  2. Where guardrails are recorded, run audit/collision checks. Reconcile only the item's new unmerged numbers and references; regenerate INDEX.
  3. Prepare the atomic completion as described below. Run the gate again after the completion commit. Push the integration branch normally.
  4. Confirm the intended tip is on the remote. Only then report shipped and perform applicable cleanup. A rejected or uncertain push is not shipped; preserve local commits and report the remote state.

Read the full file on GitHub · 206 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. 1mo ago Changed · +11 lines b929994d4bf1
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +89 lines 20891d33bbba
  3. 1mo ago Changed · +31 lines · -4 tokens per session 85a2bfeda552
  4. 1mo ago Changed · +3 lines · -9 tokens per session ce3cea5b65ff
  5. 1mo ago First seen · 72 lines · 96 tokens per session scan A f22d1f92cc5a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ship-item is a skill published in the GitHub repository EvolveHQ/docflow (16 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 2,595 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 2026-08-31.

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