ship-workflow

ship-workflow is a skill for Claude Code from Mathews-Tom/armory. It costs 71 tokens per session (1,562 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A release workflow that takes a feature branch through checks, testing, review, version updates, changelog creation, pushing, and pull-request creation. A feature branch is a separate line of development, and a pull request is a proposed change for review.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare a feature for release, create orderly commits, update the version and changelog, push the branch, and open a pull request.
Why use it?
It catches an unsuitable branch, uncommitted work, remote changes, test failures, or other release problems before the change is proposed for merging.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the armory plugin — 85 skills shipped together

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/mathews-tom/armory/ship-workflow
Any agent
npx skills add Mathews-Tom/armory --skill ship-workflow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Mathews-Tom/armory

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install armory, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 85 skills.

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-workflow

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,562 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 $0.00071 $0.01562
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00781
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00312
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00156

Measured yesterday against content hash 825006b024b9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ship-workflow 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 yesterday.

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/ship-workflow/SKILL.md · 217 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 217 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ship Workflow

Automated release pipeline that takes a feature branch from working state to merged PR. Executes a deterministic sequence of pre-flight checks, testing, review, versioning, and PR creation — stopping immediately on any failure with specific remediation instructions.

Pipeline Overview

pre-flight → merge main → test → review → version bump → changelog → bisectable commits → push → PR

Each step has explicit stop conditions. The pipeline never auto-resolves ambiguity.


Step 1: Pre-flight Checks

Run all three checks before proceeding:

  1. Not on default branch — detect the default branch dynamically:

    git symbolic-ref refs/remotes/origin/HEAD | sed 's@^refs/remotes/origin/@@'
    

    If the current branch matches: STOP. Instruct the user to create a feature branch.

  2. Clean working treegit status --porcelain must produce no output. If dirty: STOP. List the uncommitted files and instruct the user to commit or stash.

  3. Up-to-date with remotegit fetch origin then compare local HEAD with origin/<current-branch>. If the remote is ahead: STOP. Instruct the user to pull or rebase.

If any check fails, STOP with the specific remediation instruction. Do not proceed.


Step 2: Merge Default Branch

git fetch origin
git merge origin/<default-branch>
  • If merge conflicts occur: STOP. Report the conflicting files. Do not auto-resolve.
  • If clean: proceed.

Step 3: Run Tests

Detect the test command from project configuration using references/project-detection.md:

Indicator Test Command
Makefile with test target make test
package.json with test script <detected-pkg-manager> run test
pyproject.toml with pytest config uv run pytest (or detected runner)
Cargo.toml cargo test
go.mod go test ./...
Gemfile + Rakefile bundle exec rake test

Read the full file on GitHub · 217 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. yesterday First seen · 217 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 825006b024b9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ship-workflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository Mathews-Tom/armory (316 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 1,562 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 2026-09-05.

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