ship-and-watch

ship-and-watch is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from harshanandak/forge. It costs 69 tokens per session (827 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for checking the status of a pushed Forge branch or pull request. A pull request is a proposed code change awaiting review and automated checks; this workflow reads the existing monitor’s verdict.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after pushing a branch, opening a pull request, or checking whether checks are green. It confirms that the monitor is attached and reports its result.
Why use it?
It avoids repeatedly asking the code-hosting service for check results and avoids losing monitoring when the session ends. It also keeps merging and resolving review discussions with a human.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Use it after pushing a branch, opening a pull request, or checking whether checks are green. It confirms that the monitor is attached and reports its result.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/harshanandak/forge/ship-and-watch
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 harshanandak/forge --skill ship-and-watch
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/harshanandak/forge

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 827 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 $0.00069 $0.00827
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00413
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00165
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00083

Measured 9d ago against content hash 303517524602, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ship-and-watch 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 9d 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.

.forge/contributor-skills/ship-and-watch/SKILL.md · 84 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 84 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ship-and-watch

The monitor is already running. Your job is to read it, not to start it and not to replace it.

Why this exists

The single most repeated correction in this repo is an agent shipping a PR and then hand-polling gh pr checks in a loop — burning tokens, missing the verdict, and leaving the PR unwatched the moment the session ends. [Forge #1 ×10]

Harsha's rule, in his words: "shepard should do everything independtly thats teh idea it shouldntbe invoked" and "whenever we ship an automatic pr monitor should be created to work on all fixes until iut gets merghe ready". A monitor you must remember to start has no value.

What is already true

Forge wakes the repo-singleton shepherd daemon automatically after a supported session start, after every successful push, and after every successful non-dry-run ship. Duplicate starts are clean no-ops under the O_EXCL lease. [verified 2026-08-13 — AGENTS.md, /shepherd utility section]

So: you do not start the daemon. You confirm it is attached and read what it says.

Procedure

  1. Ship or push normally — forge ship, or forge push on a branch that has an open PR.

  2. Confirm the daemon owns this PR:

    forge shepherd events
    
  3. Read the verdict for your PR:

    forge shepherd <pr> --pull --json
    
  4. Report the verdict in one line: what is red, what is pending, what needs a human. If nothing is red, say so explicitly and name what you checked — a silent "looks fine" reads as "did not look".

Rules

  • Never hand-poll. gh pr checks in a loop is the failure this skill replaces. The one legitimate use of gh here is a single spot-check when the daemon reports something you want to confirm at source. [Forge #1 ×10]
  • Never merge. Shepherd never merges and never resolves review threads; neither do you. The human merges. [verified 2026-08-13 — AGENTS.md]
  • New problems get a new PR. A finding unrelated to this branch becomes a kernel issue and its own PR, never an extra commit here. "new problems not related to pr should be menat to be fixed ina new pr." [Forge #3 ×6]
  • Do not wait a fixed ten minutes. Wait for the settled state: every bot has posted a terminal result, zero unresolved threads, no check in flight. A clock is not a signal. [Forge #10 ×2]
  • If the daemon is genuinely not attached, that is a bug in the substrate — file a kernel issue. Do not paper over it with a manual loop.

Read the full file on GitHub · 84 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. 9d ago First seen · 84 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A 303517524602

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ship-and-watch is a skill published in the GitHub repository harshanandak/forge (4 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 827 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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