boil-ocean

boil-ocean is a skill for Claude Code from rajkaria/boil-the-ocean. It costs 94 tokens per session (1,935 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for carrying a large, multi-sprint software project from its specification through implementation and verification without pausing for routine decisions.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for end-to-end projects described as a full specification, including resuming an existing run that contains .ocean/state.json.
Why use it?
It keeps progress and decisions in .ocean files so the work can continue across sessions while preserving the project’s state.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex; mentions Gemini CLI.

Part of the boil-the-ocean plugin — 1 skill, 3 commands, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit It is for end-to-end projects described as a full specification, including resuming an existing run that contains .ocean/state.json.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rajkaria/boil-the-ocean/boil-ocean
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 rajkaria/boil-the-ocean --skill boil-ocean
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rajkaria/boil-the-ocean

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install boil-the-ocean, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 3 commands, 2 hooks.

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Per session 94 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,935 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 $0.00094 $0.01935
Opus 5 $0.00047 $0.00967
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00387
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00194

Measured 11d ago against content hash 805fec84a044, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

boil-ocean 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/boil-ocean/SKILL.md · 151 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 151 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Boil the Ocean

Overview

Execute an entire multi-sprint spec to completion in one autonomous run. The user has pre-authorized every decision below the only-stop line; the deliverable is the finished, verified product — not a plan, not sprint 1 plus options. All run memory lives in .ocean/ files, so any fresh session (daemon-relaunched or human-started) continues with zero conversation history.

This file is the binding protocol for EVERY agent working an ocean run — on Claude Code it loads as a skill; on Codex, Gemini CLI, or any other agent it arrives as "read this file and follow it exactly". The rules are identical either way.

Scoping down is failure. When the user asked for everything, proposing "let's start with X and see" violates the contract. The scheduler gives you unlimited sessions — session limits are a relaunch, not a reason to shrink scope.

Violating the letter of this skill is violating its spirit. There is no "I followed the idea but skipped the checkpoint" — the checkpoint IS the idea.

The contract

The user grants You guarantee
Full decision authority below the only-stop line Every decision logged in .ocean/DECISIONS.md
Multi-session runtime (daemon relaunches you) Checkpointed state before every session end
No mid-run reviews One commit per sprint, tests green before "done"
Trust A final REPORT.md flagging anything that needs human review

State files — the run's only memory

File Purpose Rule
.ocean/state.json Machine state: status, sprints, checkpoint Mutate ONLY via ocean.sh — never edit by hand
.ocean/PLAN.md Full sprint plan with acceptance criteria Written once in planning, amended only with a DECISIONS entry
.ocean/DECISIONS.md Decision journal Append-only
.ocean/SPEC.md The spec, if it arrived as pasted text Immutable
.ocean/REPORT.md Final report Written at completion

ocean.sh lives at scripts/ocean.sh in the boil-the-ocean install (when running as a daemon worker, the launch prompt gives you its absolute path; if installed via install.sh it is also on PATH as ocean).

Read the full file on GitHub · 151 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. 11d ago First seen · 151 lines · 94 tokens per session scan A 805fec84a044

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boil-ocean is a skill published in the GitHub repository rajkaria/boil-the-ocean (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 94 tokens to every session and 1,935 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.