using-shipyard

using-shipyard is a skill for Claude Code from lgbarn/shipyard. It costs 83 tokens per session (4,388 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to Shipyard, a Claude Code plugin for planning projects, coordinating coding agents, reviewing code, checking security, and verifying delivery.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps initialize a project, explore an idea, plan phases, build with agents, review changes, and prepare work for delivery.
Why use it?
It gives developers a starting point for using Shipyard without already knowing its commands or workflow.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the shipyard plugin — 25 skills, 25 commands, 20 agents, 6 hooks shipped together

Good fit It helps initialize a project, explore an idea, plan phases, build with agents, review changes, and prepare work for delivery.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lgbarn/shipyard/using-shipyard
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add lgbarn/shipyard --skill using-shipyard
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lgbarn/shipyard

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install shipyard, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 25 skills, 25 commands, 20 agents, 6 hooks.

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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 4,388 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 $0.04388
Opus 5.5 $0.00033 $0.01755
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00878
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00439

Measured 6d ago against content hash 431e08999d10, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

using-shipyard 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 6d 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/shipyard/skills/using-shipyard/SKILL.md · 280 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 280 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Using Shipyard

What is Shipyard?

Shipyard is a structured project execution framework for Claude Code. It works as a plugin that helps you:

  • Plan work in phases — break large projects into manageable pieces with clear success criteria
  • Build with parallel agents and TDD — fresh 200k-token context per task, atomic commits, test-driven development
  • Review code quality and security automatically — two-stage code review, OWASP security audits, complexity analysis
  • Ship with confidence — verification gates, documentation generation, and delivery workflows

Shipyard works as a Claude Code plugin. Install it once, then use slash commands in any project.

Getting Started

New to Shipyard? Follow these steps:

  1. /shipyard:init — Set up your project preferences (interaction mode, git strategy, quality gates). Takes ~1 minute.
  2. /shipyard:brainstorm — Explore what you want to build through interactive dialogue. Captures a project definition.
  3. /shipyard:plan 1 — Plan your first phase of work. Researches the codebase and decomposes into executable tasks.
  4. /shipyard:build — Execute the plan with parallel builder agents, review gates, and security audits.
  5. /shipyard:ship — Verify, audit, document, and deliver your completed work.

For quick one-off tasks, skip the lifecycle and use /shipyard:quick 'description'.

I Want To...

Goal Command
Set up a new project /shipyard:init
Explore requirements /shipyard:brainstorm
Understand existing code /shipyard:map
Plan a phase /shipyard:plan [phase] [--skip-research]
Build from a plan /shipyard:build [phase] [--plan N] [--light]
Quick one-off task /shipyard:quick "task"
Review my code /shipyard:review
Security check /shipyard:audit
Research technology options /shipyard:research "topic"
Find duplication/complexity /shipyard:simplify [scope]
Generate documentation /shipyard:document [scope]
Run tests and verify /shipyard:verify [criteria]
Check progress /shipyard:status
Change settings /shipyard:settings
Rollback to checkpoint /shipyard:rollback
Recover from errors /shipyard:recover
Ship completed work /shipyard:ship [--phase | --milestone | --branch]

Read the full file on GitHub · 280 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. 6d ago Changed · +8 tokens per session 431e08999d10
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 280 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A a0b5496c8394

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using-shipyard is a skill published in the GitHub repository lgbarn/shipyard (65 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 4,388 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 2026-09-03.

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