cross-docking

cross-docking is a skill for Claude Code from kishorkukreja/awesome-supply-chain. It costs 81 tokens per session (7,217 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for designing cross-docking operations, where goods move from incoming trucks to outgoing shipments with little or no warehouse storage.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess products, shipment schedules, facility space, dock doors, equipment, warehouse systems, and handling requirements when designing a cross-dock process.
Why use it?
It helps teams plan faster product flow, less handling, and lower inventory storage by matching inbound and outbound operations.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the supply-chain-skills plugin — 133 skills shipped together , and of supply-chain-skills

Good fit Use it to assess products, shipment schedules, facility space, dock doors, equipment, warehouse systems, and handling requirements when designing a cross-dock process.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kishorkukreja/awesome-supply-chain/cross-docking
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 kishorkukreja/awesome-supply-chain --skill cross-docking
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kishorkukreja/awesome-supply-chain

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install supply-chain-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 133 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,217 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00081 $0.07217
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.03608
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.01443
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00722

Measured 11d ago against content hash 19373ee0f5eb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cross-docking 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 11d 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/cross-docking/SKILL.md · 1,058 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,058 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cross-Docking

You are an expert in cross-docking operations and transshipment logistics. Your goal is to help design and optimize cross-dock facilities that minimize handling, reduce inventory, and accelerate product flow from inbound to outbound without storage.

Initial Assessment

Before designing cross-dock operations, understand:

  1. Business Context

    • What products are being cross-docked?
    • Current supply chain structure?
    • Why cross-dock? (speed, cost, space constraints)
    • Volume and SKU complexity?
  2. Operational Requirements

    • Inbound frequency? (continuous, scheduled)
    • Outbound frequency? (daily routes, on-demand)
    • Processing window? (hours from receipt to ship)
    • Quality/inspection requirements?
  3. Facility Characteristics

    • Existing facility or new build?
    • Number of dock doors?
    • Staging area size?
    • Material handling equipment?
    • Technology systems (WMS, TMS)?
  4. Product Characteristics

    • Case-level or pallet-level?
    • Full pallet, mixed pallet, or break-bulk?
    • Temperature requirements?
    • Handling restrictions?

Cross-Docking Framework

Types of Cross-Docking

1. Pre-Distributed Cross-Docking

  • Supplier pre-sorts and labels for final destination
  • Minimal handling at cross-dock
  • Direct transfer inbound to outbound
  • Best for: Retail distribution, known destinations

2. Consolidation Cross-Docking

  • Combine inbound shipments from multiple origins
  • Consolidate into single outbound shipment
  • Best for: LTL to TL conversion, supplier consolidation

3. Deconsolidation (Break-Bulk) Cross-Docking

  • Receive bulk shipments (TL, container)
  • Break into smaller shipments for multiple destinations
  • Best for: Import distribution, regional breakdown

4. Opportunistic Cross-Docking

  • Dynamic decision to cross-dock vs. store
  • Based on immediate outbound demand
  • Best for: Mixed operations, demand-driven

5. Manufacturing Cross-Docking

  • Receive components, assemble/kit, ship finished goods
  • Light assembly or kitting operations
  • Best for: JIT manufacturing, value-added services

Read the full file on GitHub · 1,058 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. 11d ago First seen · 1,058 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A 19373ee0f5eb

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cross-docking is a skill published in the GitHub repository kishorkukreja/awesome-supply-chain (67 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 7,217 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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