ship

name	ship
description	Verify and publish by pushing, opening a PR, and watching CI; land mode merges then cleans branches. Triggers "ship it", "create PR", "/ship", "watch the PR", "babysit CI"; land mode "land it", "/ship land", "fix CI and merge".
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Ship Pipeline

Standalone Codex

Skip the Claude marker and !command interpolation below. Run git branch --show-current, git status --porcelain, and git log --oneline -5 explicitly. Create a new reviewer with spawn_agent, continue it while live with send_message, trigger another turn once it is idle with followup_task, wait with wait_agent, and stop its current turn with interrupt_agent only when necessary. Never spawn codex-verifier and never run codex-run.ts from inside Codex.

Writers share the working tree unless the live host explicitly offers isolation. Assign non-overlapping ownership and serialize any implementer and test-writer fixes; only read-only reviewers may overlap. Codex implementers are not promised Claude worktree isolation. Codex also skips TLDR and uses git diff --name-only, direct import searches, and test-name searches to choose affected tests.

Claude-only marker: standalone Codex must skip this command. mkdir -p ~/.claude/tmp && echo "ship" > ~/.claude/tmp/heavy-skill-active && date -u +"%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ" >> ~/.claude/tmp/heavy-skill-active

You are in Maestro orchestration mode. Execute the shipping checklist in order.

Claude current state

• Branch: !git branch --show-current 2>/dev/null || echo "unknown"
• Working tree: !git status --porcelain 2>/dev/null | head -20
• Recent commits: !git log --oneline -5 2>/dev/null || echo "no commits"

Pipeline (All Steps Mandatory)

Step 0: Preflight

ssh-add -l

If no identities loaded: Unlock 1Password and retry — git signing will fail otherwise. Agent drops mid-flow are a recurring cause of failed pushes; catch it now, not after the commit.

Do not commit until Steps 1–4 (typecheck/build/test/lint) are green. Skipping ahead is where amend churn comes from — --amend to fix a lint error you would have caught in 30 seconds invalidates signatures and CI runs.

Step 1: Type Check

bunx tsc --noEmit

If errors: fix them. Do not proceed until clean.

Step 2: Build

bun run build

If errors: fix them. Do not proceed until clean.

Step 3: Test (if tests exist)

3a. Affected tests first. In Claude, use TLDR when available. Standalone Codex uses the native searches in its host branch. Run only the tests touched by your changes before the full suite.

tldr change-impact --project . 2>/dev/null

If TLDR returns a list, run those tests first (bun test <file> or vitest run <file>). If they fail, fix before the full run — don't waste cycles on the rest.

3b. Full suite.

Select one configured runner before executing it. Never treat a second runner as a fallback after a real test failure:

if bun -e 'const p = await Bun.file("package.json").json(); process.exit(typeof p.scripts?.test === "string" ? 0 : 1)'; then
  bun run test
elif bun -e 'const p = await Bun.file("package.json").json(); process.exit(p.devDependencies?.vitest || p.dependencies?.vitest ? 0 : 1)'; then
  ./node_modules/.bin/vitest run
else
  bun test
fi

If no tests or runner are configured, record the evidence and skip this step. If the selected runner fails, stop and fix that failure. Do not run a narrower suite to turn a real failure green.

Step 4: Lint

biome check .

If errors: fix or justify.

Step 5: Web Quality Gate

Quick sanity check before review:

• No loading="lazy" on above-fold/LCP images
• Images have explicit dimensions or fill prop
• No console.log left in production code
• Meta tags present on new pages (title, description, canonical)
• Structured data valid on new content pages

If issues found: fix them before proceeding to review.

Step 6: Review Changes

Spawn reviewer agent:

Agent(reviewer, "Review all staged changes for quality, TypeScript strictness, a11y, and performance issues.")

Standalone Codex branch: follow the native lifecycle above and use a fresh read-only reviewer. Skip the Claude bridge branch below.

When the Codex bridge is available, run a cross-model review in parallel — a different model family catches what Claude self-review misses, and this is right before a commit lands, the cheapest place to catch a Critical:

Agent(codex-verifier, "Cross-model review of the staged diff. Report findings by severity.")

If Claude and Codex disagree on a Critical/HIGH finding, surface it to the user as a gate before Step 7 — don't auto-commit through a cross-model disagreement. The bridge is gated and fails open: if Codex is unavailable, proceed with the Claude review alone.

If the codex-verifier spawn fails, or it reports that Bash was stripped (forked skill contexts), run bun "$HOME/.claude/src/scripts/codex-run.ts" review directly instead — never skip the cross-model pass.

Step 7: Commit (Bisectable)

Analyze the diff to decide commit strategy:

git diff --cached --stat | tail -1

Small diff (<50 lines changed across <4 files): Single commit.

git add <relevant files>
git commit -m "<type>: <description>"

Larger diff: Split into ordered commits by dependency layer. Each commit must be independently valid — no broken imports, no forward references.

Commit order (skip layers with no changes):

1. Infrastructure — config files, env changes, package.json, build config
2. Types/interfaces — type definitions, schemas, shared interfaces
3. Logic — utilities, hooks, services, lib code (group with their tests when small)
4. UI — components, pages, styles (group with their tests when small)
5. Tests — remaining test files not already grouped with their subjects
6. Meta — docs, changelog, version bumps — always last commit

Per-commit validation: Each commit must independently pass:

npx tsc --noEmit && biome check .

If a commit would break either check in isolation, merge it with the next commit in the sequence.

Commit messages: Each gets a conventional prefix (feat:, fix:, refactor:, test:, chore:, docs:).

Step 8: Push and PR

git push origin HEAD

If gh is not available, provide the push command and instruct the user to create the PR manually.

Author the PR body — do NOT use --fill. --fill dumps the commit messages into the description, which reads as technical and over-engineered. Lead with a plain-English "What this does" (see rules/git.md "Signal, not spam"):

gh pr create --title "<type>: <concise, plain-English title>" --body "$(cat <<'EOF'
## What this does
<2–3 plain sentences: what changed and why it matters — the real-world effect,
not the mechanism. A teammate who didn't write it should get it on one read.>

## Summary
- <technical bullet — the how>

## Test Plan
- [ ] <how it was verified>
EOF
)"

Write "What this does" from the diff and its purpose, not by pasting commit subjects. If you can't explain it plainly, the change is unclear — say so, don't reach for bigger words.

Step 9: Watch CI Until Green (post-push)

After gh pr create, watch the PR-attached checks until all pass. Use gh pr checks as the source of truth — it covers all PR checks, not just GitHub Actions runs (which gh run list would miss).

gh pr checks --json name,bucket,state,workflow,link
gh pr checks --watch --fail-fast

If a check fails:

1. Identify the failing job and fetch logs (gh run view RUN_ID --log-failed for GHA; follow the link for external services).
2. Reproduce the exact failing guard locally against the real built artifact before pushing a fix — run the same test script / check command CI ran, against the binary or output CI would see. A fix verified only by reasoning is a push-and-pray loop.
3. Apply the smallest fix. Use the fix skill's "Variant: Failing PR CI" if the failure is non-trivial. For version/metadata guards, use the repo's canonical script (bump-version.sh-style) — never hand-edit versioned fields; hand-bumps desync the sibling fields the script maintains.
4. Push, then re-read gh pr checks — the check set can change between runs.
5. Repeat until green.

Guardrails:

• Scope each fix to a single failure cause.
• If failures are flaky, retry once and report flake evidence rather than chasing a phantom fix.
• If the failure is unrelated to the PR and already fixed on main, merge main into the branch instead of bloating the PR.
• Never take a watcher pipeline's exit code as the verdict — in gh run watch ID; gh run view ID ... the shell reports the last command's exit, not the run's outcome. Read the conclusion explicitly: gh run view ID --json conclusion --jq .conclusion (or gh pr checks).

Land Mode (existing PR → merged → clean)

Invoked as /ship land or when the ask is "review/fix CI then merge then clean up" on a PR that already exists. Skip Steps 0–8; run:

1. Capture the head you're validating: gh pr view --json headRefOid,reviewDecision,mergeable. Everything below is checked against THIS headRefOid.
2. gh pr checks — if red, run the Step 9 CI-fix loop until green. A CI fix that pushes a new commit moves the head: re-capture headRefOid and re-check against it.
3. Confirm review state from step 1: if reviewDecision is CHANGES_REQUESTED or mergeable is CONFLICTING, stop and report — do not merge through either.
4. Re-validate immediately before merging — gh pr view --json headRefOid,reviewDecision,mergeable. All three can drift while the CI loop ran (a new push moves headRefOid; a late review flips reviewDecision to CHANGES_REQUESTED; a base-branch change flips mergeable) — the head moving is not the only race. If headRefOid differs from the SHA you validated, STOP and re-run checks against the new head; if reviewDecision/mergeable regressed, STOP and report. Don't merge stale-green. (A post-merge SHA check can't catch a moved head: a squash commit does not contain the PR head as an ancestor, so the guard has to run before merge. See the gh-merge-race learning.)
5. Merge with the repo's preferred strategy (gh pr merge --squash --delete-branch unless repo convention says otherwise). Branch protection / a merge queue, if enabled, is the atomic final gate.
6. Cleanup: git checkout main && git pull, delete the local branch, prune remotes (git remote prune origin). Leave only main unless other branches have open PRs.
7. Report: PR link, merge commit, branches deleted.

Per the Autonomy Contract (CLAUDE-FULL.md): steps 5–7 are pre-approved once CI is green, the head is confirmed unchanged, and review is clean — report, don't ask. External-org repos: land mode is forbidden entirely.

Rules

• NEVER skip the type check or build step
• NEVER create a PR with failing tests
• Conventional commit messages only (feat:, fix:, refactor:, etc.)
• No AI attribution in commits or PR descriptions — see rules/git.md.
• Each bisectable commit must pass tsc --noEmit AND biome check independently
• If total diff is small, single commit is fine -- don't over-split

Output

Return:

• Build status: Pass/Fail
• Test status: Pass/Fail (with count)
• Lint status: Pass/Fail
• Review status: Approved/Needs Changes
• Commits created: Count and summary of each
• PR link: URL if created