repo-harness-ship

name	repo-harness-ship
description	Final repo-harness closeout workflow. Runs review/check gates, commits finished contract worktrees, pushes codex branches, and creates GitHub PRs by default.
when_to_use	repo-harness-ship, ship repo-harness work, close out contract worktree, commit push PR, cleanup merged worktree, local merge harness work

repo-harness-ship

Use this command when implementation is complete and the user wants the harness to close out worktrees and create reviewable PRs.

Protocol

1. Run worktree safety preflight with git status --short --branch -uall and git worktree list --porcelain.
2. In default PR mode, run bash .ai/harness/scripts/ship-worktrees.sh; it validates review/check evidence, runs .ai/harness/scripts/contract-worktree.sh finish --no-merge, pushes codex/<slug>, and creates a draft PR with gh pr create --base main --head codex/<slug>.
3. For a dirty target branch that is explicitly attributable to the active plan, pass --slug <slug> so the script creates codex/<slug>-main-closeout and opens a PR instead of committing to main.
4. For maintainer-only local closeout, run bash .ai/harness/scripts/ship-worktrees.sh --local-merge; this preserves the older finish -> fast-forward main -> cleanup path.
5. After a PR has merged and local main contains the branch, run bash .ai/harness/scripts/ship-worktrees.sh --cleanup-merged to remove only proven-merged local worktrees and branches. If the branch is merged but the linked worktree is dirty, pick/apply/commit useful changes first; use --discard-scaffold-only only when the dirty paths are generated plan/contract/review/notes scaffold.

CHECKPOINTS

• CHECKPOINT: before push, PR creation, local merge, or cleanup, verify review, external acceptance, and verify-sprint evidence are present and passing.

Failure Modes

• If the target worktree is dirty with unrelated files, stop and report the dirty paths.
• If a PR already exists, reuse it instead of creating a duplicate.
• If cleanup finds a dirty merged worktree, preserve useful changes or use --discard-scaffold-only only for generated scaffold files.

Boundaries

• Default mode creates PRs; it does not fast-forward main, merge PRs, publish releases, or tag versions.
• Does not run git reset --hard, git clean, or automatic stash.
• Does not treat _ops tgz archives as a successful closeout path; merged dirty worktrees must be committed/picked/applied or explicitly discarded as scaffold-only.
• Does not commit, push, open PRs, or cleanup when Waza /check, external acceptance, or verify-sprint evidence is missing or failing.
• Does not absorb unrelated dirty target or sibling worktree changes.
• Re-reads existing PR state after a create failure or before creating a new PR to avoid duplicates.