ship-mini

ship-mini is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tmusser/ai-engineering-skills. It costs 37 tokens per session (974 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A small safety check for deciding whether verified work is ready to cause real-world effects. It considers production or shared-data changes, unattended jobs, permissions, secrets, sensitive data, destructive actions, and approval needs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before publishing, sending, scheduling, triggering jobs, changing shared state, accessing credentials or personal data, or taking actions that are hard to undo.
Why use it?
It separates technical correctness from the separate question of whether activating the work is authorized and safe.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it before publishing, sending, scheduling, triggering jobs, changing shared state, accessing credentials or personal data, or taking actions that are hard to undo.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tmusser/ai-engineering-skills/ship-mini
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 tmusser/ai-engineering-skills --skill ship-mini
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tmusser/ai-engineering-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 974 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 $0.00037 $0.00974
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00487
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00195
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00097

Measured 9d ago against content hash 8598edf97c33, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ship-mini 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 9d 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-mini/SKILL.md · 103 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 103 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ship Mini

Purpose

Decide whether verified work is safe and authorized to activate in a real operating environment.

verify-contract owns correctness and evidence. ship-mini does not re-verify the implementation; it owns the additional operational question: should this verified thing be allowed to act on the world now?

When to use

Use after verification when activation introduces one or more material operational risks:

  • production or shared-state writes
  • scheduled, autonomous, or unattended execution
  • sending, publishing, triggering jobs, or other external side effects
  • new or expanded tool permissions
  • secrets, credentials, PII, or sensitive-data access
  • destructive or difficult-to-reverse actions
  • a required human approval boundary
  • a meaningful rollback, audit, or owner-notification requirement

Skip ship-mini for ordinary local or interactive changes whose effects remain reviewable and reversible. A user-facing change, shared report, dashboard update, model result, or successful verify-contract does not require ship-mini merely because it may be released or seen by others.

Do not create SHIP.md when no material activation risk exists.

Inputs

  • VERIFY.md status and evidence reference
  • What will be activated and where
  • Allowed tools / actions
  • Forbidden tools / actions
  • Target environment or shared state
  • Destructive or irreversible operations
  • Secrets, credentials, PII, or sensitive-data scope
  • Dry-run or staged activation path when relevant
  • Human approval gates
  • Audit logging
  • Rollback / disable path
  • Owner notification
  • Stop conditions

Workflow

  1. Confirm the implementation already has sufficient verification evidence. Reference VERIFY.md; do not replay correctness checks merely because ship-mini is invoked.
  2. Classify activation risk:
    • NONE — no material side effect, autonomy, permission, data, or rollback boundary exists. Stop without creating SHIP.md.
    • PRESENT — one or more material activation risks exist. Continue.
  3. Name the exact activation surface: what will run, write, send, publish, trigger, access, or mutate, and in which environment.
  4. Record allowed and forbidden actions, permission/data boundaries, destructive operations, and required human gates.
  5. Confirm the smallest practical dry-run or staged activation path when one exists.
  6. Confirm rollback or disable path before irreversible or shared-state effects are enabled.
  7. Confirm audit logging, owner notification, and stop conditions when unattended or externally visible effects are possible.
  8. Resolve any REVIEW_REQUIRED verification item that affects activation safety. A functional FAIL cannot be shipped.
  9. Create or update SHIP.md with the activation decision and only the operational evidence needed for GO / NO-GO.

Read the full file on GitHub · 103 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. 9d ago First seen · 103 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 8598edf97c33

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ship-mini is a skill published in the GitHub repository tmusser/ai-engineering-skills (4 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 974 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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