ss-ship

ss-ship is a skill for Claude Code from MartyBonacci/specswarm. It costs 28 tokens per session (719 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A quality-gated workflow for merging a feature branch into its parent branch and deleting the feature branch. It requires confirmation before this destructive shipping action.

In plain words
What is it for?
Shipping, deploying, releasing, or merging completed features after confirming the target context and intended destructive operation.
Why use it?
It adds a deliberate checkpoint before changes are merged, deployed, or released, reducing the chance of an accidental merge or branch deletion.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the ss plugin — 10 skills, 34 commands, 6 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Shipping, deploying, releasing, or merging completed features after confirming the target context and intended destructive operation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/martybonacci/specswarm/ss-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 MartyBonacci/specswarm --skill ss-ship
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MartyBonacci/specswarm

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ss, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 34 commands, 6 agents, 4 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 719 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 $0.00028 $0.00719
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00360
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00144
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00072

Measured 8d ago against content hash d7a67eea1d09, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ss-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.

plugins/ss/skills/ss-ship/SKILL.md · 89 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 89 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SpecSwarm Ship Workflow

Provides natural language access to /ss:ship command.

Dynamic Context

Current branch: !git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD 2>/dev/null || echo "Unknown branch"

When to Invoke

Trigger this skill when the user mentions:

  • Shipping, deploying, or releasing features
  • Merging to main/production
  • Completing or finishing features
  • "Ship it" (common casual phrase - ALWAYS confirm)

Examples:

  • "Ship the authentication feature"
  • "Deploy to production"
  • "Merge this to main"
  • "Ship it" ← Ambiguous - might be casual approval
  • "Release version 2.0"

Instructions

ALWAYS Confirm (Regardless of Confidence):

  1. Detect that user mentioned shipping/deploying/merging

  2. Extract context about what to ship (if provided)

  3. ALWAYS ask for confirmation using AskUserQuestion tool with this format:

    Question: "⚠️ SHIP CONFIRMATION - Destructive Operation"

    Description: "This will merge your feature branch to main/parent branch and delete the feature branch. This is a DESTRUCTIVE operation that cannot be easily undone."

    Options:

    • Option 1 (label: "Yes, ship this feature"): "Merge to main branch and delete feature branch (DESTRUCTIVE)"
    • Option 2 (label: "No, cancel"): "Cancel - I'm not ready to ship" (or if this was just casual "ship it" approval)
  4. If user selects Option 1, run: /ss:ship

  5. If user selects Option 2, process normally without SpecSwarm

  6. Note: The /ss:ship command may have its own confirmation as an additional safety layer

What the Ship Command Does

/ss:ship runs complete workflow:

  • Runs quality analysis and validation
  • Checks quality threshold (default 80%)
  • Shows merge plan with confirmation prompt
  • Merges to parent branch
  • Cleans up feature branch

Important: This is DESTRUCTIVE - it merges and deletes branches. The command itself may have built-in confirmation as a second safety layer.

Semantic Understanding

This skill should trigger not just on exact keywords, but semantic equivalents:

Read the full file on GitHub · 89 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 · 89 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A d7a67eea1d09

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ss-ship is a skill published in the GitHub repository MartyBonacci/specswarm (65 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 719 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.