shipkit-engineering-goals

shipkit-engineering-goals is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from stefan-stepzero/shipkit. It costs 39 tokens per session (4,377 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for deriving measurable technical targets from an engineering plan, such as response time, reliability, and test coverage.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or evaluate engineering goals and add technical requirements to project stage gates.
Why use it?
It turns design decisions into criteria that can be tracked and checked against actual results.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/stefan-stepzero/shipkit/shipkit-engineering-goals
Any agent
npx skills add stefan-stepzero/shipkit --skill shipkit-engineering-goals
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/stefan-stepzero/shipkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,377 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 $0.00039 $0.04377
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.02188
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00875
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00438

Measured 3d ago against content hash 76425861451c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

shipkit-engineering-goals 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 3d 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.

install/skills/shipkit-engineering-goals/SKILL.md · 441 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 441 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

shipkit-engineering-goals — Technical Performance Criteria

Purpose: Derive measurable technical performance criteria from the engineering blueprint. Each mechanism, component, and design decision implies criteria for "how do we know this performs?" — this skill makes those criteria explicit, measurable, and trackable.

What it does: Reads the engineering blueprint + stage context, derives technical criteria from cited signals, writes the engineering goal file, and adds engineering criteria to existing stage gates. Most criteria are grounded from engineering-definition.json, stack.json, and stage — only hard performance targets with no signal become questions.

Protocol: This skill follows the canonical elicitation protocol defined in install/shared/references/elicitation-protocol.md (the mechanics — marker, state files, resume).

Calibration: Apply install/shared/references/ground-or-ask-calibration.md (the intelligence — propose vs ask). Ground first: this is a DERIVATION skill — most criteria flow directly from engineering-definition.json (mechanisms → performance/quality/reliability targets), stack.json (stack norms), goals/strategic.json (stage gates), and goals/product.json (outcome alignment). Cite the signal for every proposed threshold and tag it with its source. Flag low-leverage guesses (guessed: true). The only HIGH-LEVERAGE ungrounded fields are hard performance/reliability TARGETS where no signal (stage, stack norms, product goals) implies the number — ask those and only those. Questions are rare (often zero for a well-defined stack); if you're generating more than 2–3, re-ground first.

Output: One JSON file:

  • goals/engineering.json — Technical-performance criteria (EM owns)

Strategic goals (stage, constraints, business metrics: S-) are handled by /shipkit-stage, owned by the Visionary agent. Run that skill first — it creates the stage gates that engineering criteria are added to. Product goals (user outcomes: P-) are handled by /shipkit-product-goals, owned by the PM agent.


Read the full file on GitHub · 441 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 3d ago First seen · 441 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 76425861451c

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shipkit-engineering-goals is a skill published in the GitHub repository stefan-stepzero/shipkit (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 4,377 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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