ship-decision

ship-decision is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from rockscy/solo-skills. It costs 76 tokens per session (959 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A quick decision framework for a solo founder choosing between two or three concrete product options. It compares effort, the cost of undoing each choice, and signs of success or failure within 30 days.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for choices such as building one feature or another, shipping now or polishing, or making a product free or paid. It does not cover legally or financially binding decisions.
Why use it?
It reduces indecision by making trade-offs and stopping rules explicit, especially when the choice can be reversed within a week.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it for choices such as building one feature or another, shipping now or polishing, or making a product free or paid. It does not cover legally or financially binding decisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rockscy/solo-skills/ship-decision
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add rockscy/solo-skills --skill ship-decision
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rockscy/solo-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 959 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 $0.00076 $0.00959
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.00479
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00192
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00096

Measured 10d ago against content hash f55f02461278, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ship-decision 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 10d 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-decision/SKILL.md · 99 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 99 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ship Decision / 出货决策

When to use

  • The user has 2–3 concrete options on the table and can't pick.
  • The decision is reversible within a week (otherwise escalate to a longer process).
  • They are a solo operator (no committee to satisfy).

When NOT to use

  • The user is just venting — they don't want a decision yet, they want to think out loud.
  • The decision is legally or financially binding (contracts, equity splits) — those need a lawyer / accountant, not a quick framework.
  • They have not yet named the options. Force them to articulate concrete options before applying this skill.

The framework

For each option, fill in four lines only:

  1. Cost — hours of focused work + dollars committed.
  2. Reversal cost — if this turns out wrong, how many hours to undo?
  3. Best-case 30-day signal — what observable thing tells you it's working?
  4. Worst-case 30-day signal — what tells you to kill it?

Then apply the regret-minimization tiebreaker:

"In 12 months, which choice will I regret not having tried?"

If reversal cost < 1 week of work AND you have a clear 30-day kill signal → ship the higher-regret option, no further deliberation.

Output format

Always produce a table. Keep cells under 12 words.

Option A Option B
Cost
Reversal cost
Best-case signal
Worst-case signal
Recommendation ✅ / ❌ ✅ / ❌

Then one sentence on the why.

Worked example

User: "Should I rebuild my landing page in Framer or stick with my hand-coded Next.js page?"

Output:

Framer Stay Next.js
Cost 6 hrs migration 0 hrs
Reversal cost 2 hrs (re-deploy old) 0 hrs
Best-case signal conv. rate +20% in 30 days conv. unchanged
Worst-case signal conv. drops, no analytics no growth, blame self for not trying
Recommendation

Framer wins: reversal cost is trivial, and the regret of not testing a dedicated landing tool is higher than 6 hours of migration.

Read the full file on GitHub · 99 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. 10d ago First seen · 99 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A f55f02461278

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ship-decision is a skill published in the GitHub repository rockscy/solo-skills (8 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 959 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 2026-08-31.

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