Ship

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Explicitly invokes $ship
• Publish the current main branch

Example prompts

• “/ship”

Requirements

• Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Bash(git status:*), Bash(git pull:*), Bash(git fetch:*), Bash(git diff:*), Bash(git show:*), Bash(git log:*), Bash(git add:*), Bash(git commit:*), Bash(git push:*), Bash(git branch:*), Bash(git rev-parse:*), Bash(git rebase:*)

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

1. 1Verify branch
2. 2Inspect state
3. 3Pull latest with rebase
4. 4Stage and commit (if changes pending)
5. 5Push
6. 6Report

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 2103ca1. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

  • Bash(git status:*)
  • Bash(git pull:*)
  • Bash(git fetch:*)
  • Bash(git diff:*)
  • Bash(git show:*)
  • Bash(git log:*)
  • Bash(git add:*)
  • Bash(git commit:*)
  • Bash(git push:*)
  • Bash(git branch:*)

  …and 2 more on the same allowed-tools line.

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • git

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

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use git, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

  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

Ship loads about 1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 53 tokens; SKILL.md has 497 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~53

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

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 bex-co/beancount-io at commit 2103ca1, republished under its MIT licence (© bex-co). 497 words, ~1,011 tokens.

name

ship

description

Ship pending changes on main by pulling with rebase, committing intentionally, and pushing to origin/main. Use only when the user explicitly invokes $ship or asks to ship or publish the current main branch.

allowed-tools

Bash(git status:*), Bash(git pull:*), Bash(git fetch:*), Bash(git diff:*), Bash(git show:*), Bash(git log:*), Bash(git add:*), Bash(git commit:*), Bash(git push:*), Bash(git branch:*), Bash(git rev-parse:*), Bash(git rebase:*)

git branch --show-current

git status

git diff --stat

git diff --cached --stat

git pull --rebase origin main

git commit -m "$(cat <<'EOF'
<message>
EOF
)"

git push origin main

Shipped: a1b2c3d feat(mobile): add account filters

© bex-co, 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 .agents/skills/ship of bex-co/beancount-io.

• SKILL.md
• agents/openai.yaml

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 2103ca1