autopilot

autopilot is a skill for Claude Code from nelsonwerd/idea-to-ship-skills. It costs 219 tokens per session (3,024 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An automated workflow that takes a grounded software idea through exploration, research, planning, implementation, and review. It produces a first draft of the product and records which parts still require a person or real-world validation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to turn a real niche or product concept into an initial build, with idea validation, research, implementation prompts, an automated build cycle, and a list of unresolved questions.
Why use it?
It reduces the coordination work involved in moving from a concept to working software. It keeps the stages connected while making clear that an automated first draft is not the same as a finished, market-tested product.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the idea-to-ship-skills plugin — 6 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to turn a real niche or product concept into an initial build, with idea validation, research, implementation prompts, an automated build cycle, and a list of unresolved questions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nelsonwerd/idea-to-ship-skills/autopilot
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 nelsonwerd/idea-to-ship-skills --skill autopilot
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nelsonwerd/idea-to-ship-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install idea-to-ship-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 219 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,024 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 29
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00219 $0.03024
Opus 5 $0.00110 $0.01512
Sonnet 5 $0.00044 $0.00605
Haiku 4.5 $0.00022 $0.00302

Measured 11d ago against content hash b85a192912a1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

autopilot 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/autopilot/SKILL.md · 131 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 131 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Autopilot — autonomous idea→ship orchestrator

autopilot flies the idea-to-ship pipeline end to end, autonomously, in character as a grounded founder-persona — productizing the "paste one kickoff and the pipeline runs itself" pattern. It takes a real, grounded niche and hands back a near-finish-line-AIMED first-draft product + an honest validation ledger.

It is an orchestrator: it composes the existing skills and never reimplements them. It invokes ideate, deep-dive, prompt-pack, and build-loop, carries each one's file output into the next, and adds only the connective tissue — the autonomy contract, the corrected gate, the kill-ledger, and an honest hand-off. If you find yourself pasting a sub-skill's procedure into this run, stop: invoke the skill instead.

It states its limits in its own text (below) because the whole point is an honest first draft, not an oversold "finished product."

When to use this

Strong triggers — invoke without asking:

  • "Run autopilot" / "fly the whole pipeline" / "take this idea→ship autonomously"
  • "Spin up a grounded founder-persona and build it" / "autonomous first-draft from this concept/niche"

Softer triggers:

  • You have a grounded niche (real lived pain or real data) and want a first-draft product + an honest validation ledger without hand-running each phase.

Do NOT use this for:

  • Driving each phase yourself — use ideate / deep-dive / prompt-pack / build-loop directly.
  • A concept with no real grounding — autopilot will not invent demand to fill the gap (see the firewall in Bounds).
  • Market validation — out of scope; that is the human/market handoff.
  • A settled code change (prompt-pack) or a soundness audit (deep-dive).

Routing tie-breaker: autopilot automates the manual tier. Reach for it to fly the pipeline end-to-end with eyes open on the bounds — not to replace human taste, finish, or market judgment.

What it produces — and its honest bounds (read this before you trust it)

Read the full file on GitHub · 131 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. 11d ago First seen · 131 lines · 219 tokens per session scan A b85a192912a1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

autopilot is a skill published in the GitHub repository nelsonwerd/idea-to-ship-skills (83 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 219 tokens to every session and 3,024 once invoked, about $0.0011 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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