ship-vertical-slice

ship-vertical-slice is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from lucasviola/specwiki. It costs 37 tokens per session (400 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A development workflow for delivering one small feature from command-line input through processing to printed output. A vertical slice is a narrow change that works end to end.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding a command flag, output format, or shipping-data path. It covers tests, input validation, carrier adapters, output formatting, documentation, and exit codes.
Why use it?
It keeps a feature small and testable, reducing the risk of mixing unrelated refactoring, infrastructure, or interface work into the same change.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lucasviola/specwiki/ship-vertical-slice
Any agent
npx skills add lucasviola/specwiki --skill ship-vertical-slice
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lucasviola/specwiki

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for ship-vertical-slice

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/lucasviola/specwiki/ship-vertical-slice.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/lucasviola/specwiki/ship-vertical-slice)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/lucasviola/specwiki/ship-vertical-slice"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/lucasviola/specwiki/ship-vertical-slice.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 400 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00037 $0.00400
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00200
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00080
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00040

Measured 6d ago against content hash f1c90373c070, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ship-vertical-slice 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.

examples/agent-harness-parcel/custom-skills/ship-vertical-slice/SKILL.md · 52 lines

What it actually says

Ship vertical slice

Ship one thin end-to-end path before polishing edge cases or refactoring.

Slice template

Input (CLI args)
  → validate / parse
  → carrier adapter (fixture or client)
  → domain types (TrackingEvent[])
  → formatTimeline() + next-action copy
  → stdout + exit code

Workflow

  1. Write the test first — one happy-path integration test from argv to expected stdout.
  2. Implement the narrowest path — skip flags you do not need yet.
  3. Add one failure test — bad id, unknown carrier, or adapter throw.
  4. Document user-facing changes — README flag table + example command.
  5. Run the session checklist from CLAUDE.md:
    • npm test before and after
    • Re-run only the tests you touched if iterating

Scope guardrails

  • Do not add a database, web UI, or label printing in the same slice.
  • Do not refactor unrelated carriers — leave drive-by cleanups for a separate PR.
  • Keep diffs commit-sized; if the slice spans more than ~3 files, split it.

Exit codes (do not change casually)

Code Meaning
0 Success
1 Usage / validation (bad args, unknown flag)
2 Carrier or runtime failure

Done when

  • Happy + one failure path covered
  • README updated for anything users type differently
  • Verbose output still PII-safe (run /review-pii-redaction if you added logging)
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 First seen · 52 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A f1c90373c070

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ship-vertical-slice is a skill published in the GitHub repository lucasviola/specwiki (11 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 400 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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