shipkit-preflight

A production-readiness checklist for checking whether an MVP is safe and usable for its first users. MVP means the first small version of a product, and the audit produces structured results in .shipkit/preflight.json.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for a go-live check, launch checklist, or thorough preflight review when deciding whether an MVP is ready for users.
Why use it?
It catches launch-critical gaps in security, data integrity, error handling, basic user experience, and legal compliance before release.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,218 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00029 $0.06218
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.03109
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.01244
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00622

Measured yesterday against content hash 1cf0a2232877, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

shipkit-preflight scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 yesterday.

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.

Strips warnings and disclaimersmediumAnti-refusal

Omitting safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.

- Build passes without warnings
install/skills/shipkit-preflight/SKILL.md · 697 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 697 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

shipkit-preflight - MVP Production Readiness Audit

Purpose: Ensure your project is ready for first users — the essentials that can't wait.

What it does: Runs an MVP-focused production checklist covering security, data integrity, error handling, UX basics, and legal compliance. Generates .shipkit/preflight.json with structured results. For scale/enterprise readiness (observability, performance, operational maturity), use /shipkit-scale-ready after you have traction.

Output format: JSON — readable by Claude, machine-readable by other tools, and the single source of truth for production readiness status.

Philosophy: With AI dev, building is cheap — but security, data integrity, and user trust aren't. This checklist keeps what matters for MVP while deferring optimization concerns.


When to Invoke

User triggers:

  • "Am I ready to ship?"
  • "Production readiness check"
  • "Preflight", "Go live check"
  • "Is this ready for users?"
  • "Launch checklist"

For thorough mode (deep code review per partition):

  • "Thorough preflight", "Deep preflight"
  • "Really scrutinize before launch"
  • → See Thorough Mode section

Workflow position:

  • After features are implemented
  • Before deploying to production
  • When transitioning from "it works" to "it's shippable"

Prerequisites

This skill aggregates context from other skills. It will route you to create missing context.

Needed Context Source Skill File Required?
Tech stack, deployment target /shipkit-project-context stack.json Yes
Vision, constraints, scale /shipkit-why-project why.json Yes
Architecture decisions, auth model /shipkit-engineering-definition architecture.json Recommended
Data shapes, what's stored /shipkit-engineering-definition engineering-definition.json Recommended
Feature specs /shipkit-spec specs/active/*.json Helpful

Read the full file on GitHub · 697 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. yesterday First seen · 697 lines · 29 tokens per session scan B 1cf0a2232877

Subscribe to this mod's changes

shipkit-preflight is a skill published in the GitHub repository stefan-stepzero/shipkit (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 6,218 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (strips warnings and disclaimers). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.