ship-task

ship-task is a skill for Claude Code from patforna/auto-task. It costs 21 tokens per session (1,407 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A finishing step for a completed coding task that marks it done, merges its changes into the main branch, and pushes them.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps close a task after implementation and review by updating its status and integrating its commits into the project's default branch.
Why use it?
It removes the manual wrap-up work after review, including merging and cleaning up the task.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the at plugin — 13 skills shipped together

Good fit It helps close a task after implementation and review by updating its status and integrating its commits into the project's default branch.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/patforna/auto-task/ship-task
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 patforna/auto-task --skill ship-task
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/patforna/auto-task

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install at, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills.

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Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,407 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 $0.00021 $0.01407
Opus 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00563
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00281
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00141

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 4baff6a4bad0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ship-task 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 1mo 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/ship-task/SKILL.md · 102 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 102 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ship Task

Usage

/at:ship-task <task-path>

Goal

Wrap up a finished task - set status to done, merge, clean up.

Context

This skill is typically run as part of a larger workflow:

create-task → clarify-task → plan-task → impl-task → review-code → review-task → ship-task

As steps (e.g. clarify, plan, impl, review) typically run in new sessions, it's imperative that the task file plus repo state carry everything the next agent needs.

Task files live in the project's task store. Project config can override its location and other defaults: read .claude/auto-task.config.md (project, committed) and .claude/auto-task.config.local.md (personal overrides — win on conflict) if they exist. /at:config owns the defaults and the precedence rules.

Guidance

  • main throughout this skill means the repo's default branch — substitute yours (e.g. master) if it differs.
  • Squash-merge by default — the task's commits collapse into a single commit on main.
  • Push is automatic — invoking ship-task authorises the merge and push. No separate approval needed.
  • Untracked files in the worktree are fine. Refuse only on uncommitted tracked changes.
  • After the merge, re-install dependencies in the primary repo if the branch changed a dependency manifest — the primary's installed deps (node_modules/, a virtualenv, etc.) don't update on merge. Run the ecosystem's install for each changed manifest (e.g. lockfile → package-manager install; regenerate any gitignored generated artefacts that depend on changed sources). The project config may list the exact commands.

Protocol

Step 1: Pre-Flight

Branch must be task/NNN-... with no uncommitted tracked changes.

Step 2: Mark Done

Set the task status to done. By default (in-repo task store), edit the frontmatter status: field and commit on the task branch with a (task/NNN) subject suffix — the squash in Step 3 carries it to main. If the config routes tasks to a separate repo, use its task-status command; the bump then commits there and the squash carries code only.

Read the full file on GitHub · 102 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. 1mo ago Changed 4baff6a4bad0
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 102 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A 57e2ceac1fa6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ship-task is a skill published in the GitHub repository patforna/auto-task (10 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 1,407 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.

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