use-ship

use-ship is a skill for Claude Code from heliohq/ship. It costs 55 tokens per session (602 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A routing guide for choosing a suitable Ship workflow, where Ship is a set of software-delivery stages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Selecting workflows for planning, architecture, development, end-to-end testing, review, runtime checks, refactoring, or handoff.
Why use it?
It prevents an unclear request from automatically expanding into a full delivery process when a smaller step is enough.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the ship plugin — 11 skills, 3 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Selecting workflows for planning, architecture, development, end-to-end testing, review, runtime checks, refactoring, or handoff.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/heliohq/ship/use-ship
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 heliohq/ship --skill use-ship
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/heliohq/ship

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ship, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 3 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 602 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 $0.00055 $0.00602
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00301
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00120
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00060

Measured 8d ago against content hash 1c76bc48effa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

use-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 8d 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/use-ship/SKILL.md · 55 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 55 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ship: Use Ship

Choose the smallest useful Ship workflow for the request, state the route briefly, then invoke the matching skill(s). Each skill's own description is the primary routing signal — this file only settles the ambiguous cases. Do not force the full pipeline unless the user explicitly wants production delivery.

Routes

Need Route
Understand scope, write a plan, de-risk approach /ship:design
Architecture/API/data-model decision, ADR, trade-off analysis /ship:arch-design (thinking) → /ship:write-docs (record), then /ship:design if implementation follows
Implement a well-scoped change /ship:design/ship:dev
Implement from an existing approved plan /ship:dev
Add durable browser/API/CLI coverage /ship:e2e
Check code correctness /ship:review
Verify runtime behavior /ship:qa
Harden a completed change /ship:e2e/ship:review/ship:qa/ship:refactor
Prepare delivery after work is complete /ship:handoff
End-to-end production delivery (explicit ask only) /ship:auto

Ambiguous phrasings default to a bounded bundle, never the full pipeline: "plan this" → design; "build this" → design → dev; "check this change" → review and/or qa; "make this production-ready" → the hardening bundle; "ship this all the way" → auto.

Boundaries

  • Standalone: atomic skills work without /ship:auto or any task directory. If the user names a phase, run that phase directly.
  • State: during full flows, raw input lives at .ship/tasks/<task_id>/input/requirement.md; orchestrator state is minimal and orchestrator-owned. Markdown artifacts and repository code are the real deliverables.
  • Durable production artifacts: use the repository's existing convention first; otherwise create only the needed subfolders under docs/ship/<task-id>/ (input/, product/, design/, engineering/, quality/, delivery/, archive/). Prefer Markdown; use YAML/JSON only when a later agent or script consumes the structure.

Read the full file on GitHub · 55 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. 8d ago First seen · 55 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 1c76bc48effa

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use-ship is a skill published in the GitHub repository heliohq/ship (92 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 602 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 2026-08-30.

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