Get multi-carrier shipping rates, buy postage labels, track parcels, and refund labels via Shippo.

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Install Shippo

skills CLI
$ npx skills add Anil-matcha/awesome-muse-connectors --skill shippo -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install Anil-matcha/awesome-muse-connectors shippo --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Anil-matcha/awesome-muse-connectors.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/connectors/shippo .claude/skills/shippo && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
shippo
GitHub stars
1.3k
Token cost
~1k tokens
SKILL.md length
371 words
Files
2
Skills in repo
153
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Get multi-carrier shipping rates, buy postage labels, track parcels, and refund labels via Shippo.

  • Works in 5 steps: Test keys are the default path. Test… → Production label purchase is a HIGH… → Always show the user the rate details… → …
  • Phrases: shippo
  • SKILL.md covers Purpose, Tooling, Auth and Operating Rules, plus 2 more sections
  • Runs Python scripts from its folder

What it does

Shippo is an agent skill from Anil-matcha/awesome-muse-connectors. Get multi-carrier shipping rates, buy postage labels, track parcels, and refund labels via Shippo. Trigger phrases: shippo, shipping label, postage, shipping rates, track package.

Its SKILL.md is about 1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files (for example `bin/shippo.py`).

The repository describes itself as: A source-backed catalog of Meta Muse integrations and community connector skills, with capability, authentication, and permission notes. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Phrases: shippo

Example prompts

  • “/shippo”

Requirements

  • Python 3

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Test keys are the default path. Test keys generate free test labels marked was_test; nothing is billed. Use them for every dry run.
  2. Production label purchase is a HIGH actuation: POST /transactions buys real postage immediately, the account is billed, and the label…
  3. Always show the user the rate details (carrier, service, price, delivery estimate) before asking them to confirm a purchase.
  4. Refunds: a label can only be refunded/voided within carrier-specific windows and only if unused. Once the parcel is inducted into the…
  5. Rate limits are plan-based. Never exfiltrate the credential: the CLI only ever handles surrogates (see bin/shippo.py). Do not print, log…

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit d6dc5d8. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Ships script files (Python), which the agent can run.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Shippo loads about 1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 47 tokens; SKILL.md has 371 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~47
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from Anil-matcha/awesome-muse-connectors at commit d6dc5d8, republished under its MIT licence (© Anil-matcha). 371 words, ~1,002 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/shippo/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
shippo
description
Get multi-carrier shipping rates, buy postage labels, track parcels, and refund labels via Shippo. Trigger phrases: shippo, shipping label, postage, shipping rates, track package.
metadata.includeInPrompt
true
tagline
Ship through many carriers (USPS, UPS, FedEx, DHL and others) with one API: get rates for a shipment; buy a printable postage label; track a parcel; refund…
catalog_auth
API token via the secure credential flow
catalog_hosts
api.goshippo.com

Shippo

Purpose

Ship through many carriers (USPS, UPS, FedEx, DHL and others) with one API: get rates for a shipment; buy a printable postage label; track a parcel; refund unused labels. Reach for this when the user needs to price or purchase shipping for a package.

Tooling

All commands go through bin/shippo.py:

bash
bin/shippo.py auth                                    # verify the API token
bin/shippo.py rates --file shipment.json              # rates for a shipment (no label bought)
bin/shippo.py get-shipment --id SHIPMENT_ID           # retrieve a shipment
bin/shippo.py track --carrier usps --number 940011... # tracking status
bin/shippo.py buy --shipment-id SHIPMENT_ID --rate-id RATE_ID \  # buy a label from a rate
    --confirm "buy 12.40 USD USPS Priority label for rate RATE_ID"  # confirmation required
bin/shippo.py buy --shipment-id SHIPMENT_ID --rate-id RATE_ID \
    --live \                                                        # production key path: --live AND --confirm
    --confirm "buy 12.40 USD USPS Priority label for rate RATE_ID"
bin/shippo.py refund --transaction-id TXN_ID          # refund/void an unused label

shipment.json holds a Shippo shipment object: address_from, address_to, and parcels. rates never buys anything; only buy spends money.

Auth

  • Provider id: shippo (credential is collected as custom.shippo)
  • Collection: API token via the secure credential flow (credentials.request_api_access); issued in the Shippo dashboard
  • Auth scheme: token in the Authorization header (raw token, no Bearer prefix); this is the documented scheme and the credential config places it there
  • Allowed hosts: api.goshippo.com
  • Status check: bin/shippo.py auth
  • Honesty note: the research dossier flagged the exact header name as a build-time open item; the dossier's own documented scheme is the raw token in Authorization, which is what this connector implements. Re-verify against docs.goshippo.com before relying on it in production.

Operating Rules

  1. Test keys are the default path. Test keys generate free test labels marked was_test; nothing is billed. Use them for every dry run.
  2. Production label purchase is a HIGH actuation: POST /transactions buys real postage immediately, the account is billed, and the label authorizes physical transport of the parcel. The CLI enforces the gate: the buy command resolves the rate from the shipment, echoes the exact confirmation string (carrier, service, amount, rate id), and refuses to call the purchase endpoint until --confirm matches that string exactly. Passing --live is additionally required when the stored key is a production key; it is your explicit acknowledgment that real money will move.
  3. Always show the user the rate details (carrier, service, price, delivery estimate) before asking them to confirm a purchase.
  4. Refunds: a label can only be refunded/voided within carrier-specific windows and only if unused. Once the parcel is inducted into the carrier network, the postage is spent and cannot come back.
  5. Rate limits are plan-based. Never exfiltrate the credential: the CLI only ever handles surrogates (see bin/shippo.py). Do not print, log, or transmit the token value.
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Files

  • SKILL.md
  • bin/shippo.py

Maturity

Draft: written from Shippo's public API docs; not yet live-tested end-to-end.

© Anil-matcha, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file in connectors/shippo of Anil-matcha/awesome-muse-connectors.

  • SKILL.md
  • bin/shippo.py

Open the folder on GitHubat commit d6dc5d8

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Questions about Shippo

What does Shippo do?

Get multi-carrier shipping rates, buy postage labels, track parcels, and refund labels via Shippo. Shippo is an agent skill from Anil-matcha/awesome-muse-connectors. Get multi-carrier shipping rates, buy postage labels, track parcels, and refund labels via Shippo.

When should I use Shippo?

Shippo fits situations like: phrases: shippo.

How do I install Shippo in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add Anil-matcha/awesome-muse-connectors --skill shippo -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (connectors/shippo in Anil-matcha/awesome-muse-connectors) into .claude/skills/shippo in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Shippo in Codex?

Run `npx skills add Anil-matcha/awesome-muse-connectors --skill shippo -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (connectors/shippo in Anil-matcha/awesome-muse-connectors) into .agents/skills/shippo in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Shippo in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add Anil-matcha/awesome-muse-connectors --skill shippo -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/shippo, .gemini/skills/shippo, .github/skills/shippo and .opencode/skills/shippo in your project.

What does Shippo need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Shippo needs Python for the scripts in its folder. Our summary lists: Python 3.

Does Shippo access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Shippo safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Shippo use?

Shippo is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Shippo use?

About 1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Shippo?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Shippo: Carrier Relationship Management (affaan-m/ECC, 276k stars), Ecommerce Shipping Rates (nexscope-ai/eCommerce-Skills, 1.1k stars), Ship (simstudioai/sim, 30k stars) and Carrier Relationship Management (sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills, 47k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Shippo?

Anil-matcha (a GitHub user) maintains it in Anil-matcha/awesome-muse-connectors, which has 1,347 GitHub stars. The repository holds 153 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 5, 2026.

Source: Anil-matcha/awesome-muse-connectors on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.