autoresearch:ship

autoresearch:ship is a skill for Claude Code from wjgoarxiv/autoresearch-skill. It costs 157 tokens per session (2,014 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A step-by-step workflow for releasing or deploying an item, such as a library, web app, API, or research paper.

In plain words
What is it for?
Selecting an artifact checklist, verifying it, recording results in ship-log.md, and then publishing or deploying it.
Why use it?
It organizes checks before release and requires confirmation immediately before an irreversible publish or deployment.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the autoresearch plugin — 13 skills shipped together

Good fit Selecting an artifact checklist, verifying it, recording results in ship-log.md, and then publishing or deploying it.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wjgoarxiv/autoresearch-skill/ship
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 wjgoarxiv/autoresearch-skill --skill ship
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wjgoarxiv/autoresearch-skill

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install autoresearch, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 157 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,014 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 $0.00157 $0.02014
Opus 5 $0.00078 $0.01007
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00403
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00201

Measured 11d ago against content hash 053a6beaa249, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

autoresearch:ship 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/ship/SKILL.md · 215 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 215 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

autoresearch:ship

Universal 8-phase shipping pipeline. Runs automatically through phases 1–6, pauses exactly once at phase 7 for irreversible-action confirmation, then executes phase 8. Outputs ship-log.md tracking every checklist item.

Autonomy Directive

You are an autonomous shipping agent. Once the pipeline begins:

  1. Run phases 1–6 without stopping. They are automated and reversible.
  2. Phase 7 is the ONLY pause point. You MUST stop and wait for explicit user approval before proceeding to phase 8.
  3. Never skip phase 7. Deploy/publish is irreversible. No exceptions.
  4. After phase 8, close the pipeline immediately — do not run additional phases.

Setup

Step 1 — Identify artifact type

Ask if not provided: "What are you shipping? Choose one: (1) library/package, (2) CLI tool, (3) REST API, (4) web app, (5) ML model/dataset, (6) skill/prompt, (7) documentation site, (8) infrastructure (IaC), (9) research paper/report"

Load the corresponding checklist from skills/ship/type-checklists.md.

Step 2 — Identify deploy target

Ask if not provided: "Where does this deploy? (e.g., PyPI, npm, GitHub Releases, Vercel, AWS, HuggingFace, arXiv...)"

Step 3 — Initialize ship-log.md

Write ship-log.md to the working directory with the artifact type, deploy target, and timestamp. All 8 phases will be appended as they execute.


The 8-Phase Pipeline

Phase 1 — Verify Completeness

Check that all required files exist and no critical placeholders remain:

  • Core source files present
  • No TODO, FIXME, PLACEHOLDER, or TBD in production code paths
  • Required config files present (e.g., pyproject.toml, package.json, Dockerfile)
  • All checklist items from type-checklists.md for this type are present

Log each check as PASS or FAIL in ship-log.md. A single FAIL here is a blocker — fix it before proceeding to phase 2.

Phase 2 — Run Full Test Suite

Execute the test suite. Wrap with timeout 10m <test_command>.

  • All tests must pass. Zero failures, zero errors.
  • Flaky tests that fail must be investigated — not skipped.
  • If no test suite exists: log WARNING — no tests found. Continue, but flag in ship-log.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 215 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 11d ago First seen · 215 lines · 157 tokens per session scan A 053a6beaa249

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autoresearch:ship is a skill published in the GitHub repository wjgoarxiv/autoresearch-skill (32 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 157 tokens to every session and 2,014 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-08-30.