Finishing a Development Branch
obra/superpowers
Walks the last step of a branch: confirm tests pass, detect the git environment, ask how to integrate, carry out your choice and clean up the worktree.
Turn completed branch work into a reviewer-ready PR: directly coordinate cleanup, rebase, one advisory full suite, repair/route failures, and spectre-createpr.
$ npx skills add joenandez/spectre --skill spectre-ship -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install joenandez/spectre spectre-ship --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joenandez/spectre.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/spectre/skills/spectre-ship .claude/skills/spectre-ship && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "spectre-ship" agent skill from https://github.com/joenandez/spectre/tree/main/plugins/spectre/skills/spectre-ship into .claude/skills/spectre-ship/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "spectre-ship", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/joenandez/spectre/tree/main/plugins/spectre/skills/spectre-shipType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add joenandez/spectre --skill spectre-ship -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install joenandez/spectre spectre-ship --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joenandez/spectre.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/spectre/skills/spectre-ship .agents/skills/spectre-ship && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "spectre-ship" agent skill from https://github.com/joenandez/spectre/tree/main/plugins/spectre/skills/spectre-ship into .agents/skills/spectre-ship/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "spectre-ship", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add joenandez/spectre --skill spectre-ship -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install joenandez/spectre spectre-ship --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joenandez/spectre.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/spectre/skills/spectre-ship .cursor/skills/spectre-ship && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "spectre-ship" agent skill from https://github.com/joenandez/spectre/tree/main/plugins/spectre/skills/spectre-ship into .cursor/skills/spectre-ship/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "spectre-ship", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/joenandez/spectre.git --path plugins/spectre/skills/spectre-ship--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add joenandez/spectre --skill spectre-ship -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install joenandez/spectre spectre-ship --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joenandez/spectre.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/spectre/skills/spectre-ship .gemini/skills/spectre-ship && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "spectre-ship" agent skill from https://github.com/joenandez/spectre/tree/main/plugins/spectre/skills/spectre-ship into .gemini/skills/spectre-ship/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "spectre-ship", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install joenandez/spectre spectre-shipInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add joenandez/spectre --skill spectre-ship -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joenandez/spectre.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/spectre/skills/spectre-ship .github/skills/spectre-ship && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "spectre-ship" agent skill from https://github.com/joenandez/spectre/tree/main/plugins/spectre/skills/spectre-ship into .github/skills/spectre-ship/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "spectre-ship", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add joenandez/spectre --skill spectre-ship -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install joenandez/spectre spectre-ship --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joenandez/spectre.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/spectre/skills/spectre-ship .opencode/skills/spectre-ship && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "spectre-ship" agent skill from https://github.com/joenandez/spectre/tree/main/plugins/spectre/skills/spectre-ship into .opencode/skills/spectre-ship/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "spectre-ship", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
spectre-shipTurn completed branch work into a reviewer-ready PR: directly coordinate cleanup, rebase, one advisory full suite, repair/route failures, and spectre-createpr.
Spectre Ship is an agent skill from joenandez/spectre. Turn completed branch work into a reviewer-ready PR: directly coordinate cleanup, rebase, one advisory full suite, repair/route failures, and spectre-createpr. Use when asked to ship finished work. Proof is optional. Do NOT use for implementation, main/master pushes, releases, or autonomous request-to-PR delivery.
Its SKILL.md is about 1.8k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 5 other files, including reference files (for example `references/prune.md`, `references/rebase.md` and `references/sweep.md`).
It sits in Development, covering Pull requests. The repository describes itself as: Spectre is a battle-tested 6 stage agentic engineering workflow for building complex, production-ready features. You stay in the loop for the decisions that matter. Your agents…. The licence is MIT.
6 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 931c9e8. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
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.
No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Spectre Ship loads about 1.8k tokens when it runs, and up to ~6.3k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 82 tokens; SKILL.md has 765 words of instructions outside code blocks.
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.
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.
The full file from joenandez/spectre at commit 931c9e8, republished under its MIT licence (© joenandez). 765 words, ~1,786 tokens.
.claude/skills/spectre-ship/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 4 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.Own cleanup, rebase, advisory suite, and draft PR.
$ARGUMENTS: optional feature root/artifact, target (default origin/main), feedback focus, or --draft; live branch/tree/remotes/PR state.FEATURE_ROOT only when explicit/current-thread evidence ties it to this work (physical directory wins; never branch/recency/lifecycle/scans); distinct work ignores ambient roots. Otherwise, including on collision, standalone MUST first load and follow @skill-spectre:spectre-feature-root through DONE; orchestrated calls escalate. Keep writes beneath it and pass it unchanged.Proof is optional: do not inspect, infer, invoke, or gate on it. Only authority/publication-safety impasses prevent PR creation.
CI: pending, measurement, and PR_OPENED status PASS|REPAIRED|PRE_EXISTING_FAILURES|INDETERMINATE|KNOWN_FAILURES_REMAIN.DONE when: Prune analysts/Test testers finish their gates, then Sweep, rebase, one full suite, repair/routing, measurement relay/degradation, and PR URL. Non-green verification never prevents DONE.
main/master. Read the exact branch; never derive work identity from branch, recency, or ambient roots — selection binds to the frozen post-rebase candidate. FEATURE_ROOT is artifact-only. Reuse unambiguous ancestral CLEANED_THROUGH_SHA. Invoke spectre-workflow measure start --label Ship; below, measure means spectre-workflow measure.measure start for Prune/Test. Load ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/spectre-ship/references/prune.md and ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/spectre-ship/references/test.md with the set/risk/FEATURE_ROOT/--orchestrated. Skill loading imports instructions, not phase delegation: the primary owns both contracts and makes one parallel dispatch of leaf @spectre:analyst/@spectre:tester batches; no phase child spawns agents. Neither stages/commits. Invoke measure finish after all batches, attaching a child identity only when singular; relay compact paths/checks and repair/route cross-boundary needs unless NEEDS_AUTHORITY.measure start --label "Sweep"; load ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/spectre-ship/references/sweep.md with --orchestrated, unchanged set, and both results. It alone integrates stale/uncovered checks, repairs attributable failures, and commits; invoke measure finish for the Sweep snapshot.measure start --label "Rebase"; load ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/spectre-ship/references/rebase.md with target, --orchestrated --verification-owner parent; retain backup summary. No checks; invoke measure finish for the Rebase snapshot.FULL_SUITE_SHA, derive and freeze candidate {repository, base, head, diff} as EXPECTED_BASE_SHA/EXPECTED_HEAD_SHA/EXPECTED_DIFF_SHA256. Before the first PR side effect, select against that frozen tuple with knowledge-cli.mjs work membership --branch <exact-branch> --candidate <tuple-json>; freeze its selected work-ID set and report excluded/ambiguous without substituting recency. Still before Create PR, invoke Skill(spectre-work-record) per selected record: finalize a complete one with execution.state finalized and remainingWork exactly None.; refresh a blocked/incomplete one truthfully and never finalize it. No PR, CI, review, or readiness value enters remainingWork. Then invoke measure start --label "Full suite" and measure start --label "Create PR". In parallel run the full-suite lane and Skill(spectre-create_pr) pending with target, --orchestrated --pr-phase pending, the frozen set, and the tuple; it returns a draft with local verification RUNNING. At each end invoke measure finish with child identity when available. No duplicate suites or raw child output.branch-caused|unrelated|indeterminate, preferring target-SHA CI and otherwise reproducing only the failing check at target.CI: pending.Skill(spectre-create_pr) with target, --orchestrated --pr-phase final-update, URL/body, the same frozen set, refreshed tuple, and FINAL_VERIFICATION_SUMMARY; change Testing only. Refresh claims after repairs; on PR_CANDIDATE_STALE, refresh and retry. Once PR identity exists, re-run work membership against the final tuple after any repair; a record it no longer proves is reported, not associated. Annotate the still-selected set through one work associate --work-id <id> … --pull-request-id <id> --candidate <final-json> --pull-request <json>, replaying retry.expectedRevisions via --expected-revisions until associated/noop and reporting partial remaining. Association annotates only: it never confers finality, PR state is draft-open, never merged, and a later Execute run on this branch keeps its own record and joins this same PR only when the updated candidate proves membership. Ambiguity or capture failure returns recovery input but does not block PR. Run measure summary --rows … --outer-snapshot … --persist --project-dir … --feature-root "$FEATURE_ROOT" --base-sha "$EXPECTED_BASE_SHA" --head-sha "$EXPECTED_HEAD_SHA" --diff-sha256 "$EXPECTED_DIFF_SHA256"; relay table, persistence status, and history path. Persistence degradation never blocks PR completion; never inspect transcripts, track clocks, or calculate. Unattributed Prune/Test and Full suite/Create PR use one exact parallel-group total; unavailable measurement never blocks Ship.Never use --no-verify, force-push over unrelated remote history, suppress failures, or publish evidence containing secrets/PII.
| Handoff | Details |
|---|---|
| 🧭 Current phase | Done |
| 📦 What was just done | Result |
| ▶️ Proposed next step | Render resolved action. |
Return PR URL + PR_OPENED/verification; review PR, CI owns merge-gating full-suite. Terminal: no handoff.
NEEDS_AUTHORITY: no safe path exists without new user authority.© joenandez, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file
SKILL.md and 4 other files (references) in plugins/spectre/skills/spectre-ship of joenandez/spectre.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 931c9e8
Spectre Ship next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.
| Skill | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Repo updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spectre Ship this skilljoenandez/spectre | 164 | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Finishing a Development Branchobra/superpowers | 297k | 5 repos | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| PR Babysitteropeninterpreter/openinterpreter | 69k | 3 repos | ~4.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | |
| Check PRonyx-dot-app/onyx | 32k | 2 repos | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| PR Design DocOpenHands/OpenHands | 91k | — | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| WooCommerce Code Reviewwoocommerce/woocommerce | 11k | 3 repos | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence |
obra/superpowers
Walks the last step of a branch: confirm tests pass, detect the git environment, ask how to integrate, carry out your choice and clean up the worktree.
openinterpreter/openinterpreter
Watches an open GitHub pull request until it merges, handling review comments, diagnosing CI failures and retrying flaky checks along the way.
onyx-dot-app/onyx
Checks a GitHub, GitLab, or Perforce (p4) pull request (or merge request, or shelved changelist) for unresolved review comments, failing status checks, and incomplete PR descriptions.
OpenHands/OpenHands
For a non-trivial pull request, write a self-contained HTML design doc under the temporary .pr/ directory and link a visibility-appropriate preview in the PR description, so maintainers grasp the…
woocommerce/woocommerce
Reviews WooCommerce code changes against the project's standards, flagging backend PHP architecture, naming, documentation, data integrity and testing violations.
payloadcms/payload
A skill your agent uses when a Payload pull request needs a concise visual walkthrough for reviewers.
joenandez/spectre
A skill your agent uses when validating that the Spectre plugin itself still works after ANY change to this repo — skills, prompts, agents, hooks, the CLI, the Codex mirror, or a release.
joenandez/spectre
A skill your agent uses when modifying the Codex SPECTRE install flow, SessionStart continuity, project skill syncing, registry injection, or Codex-specific runtime files.
joenandez/spectre
Save a quiet, branch-keyed session snapshot with continuity, active work, and optional task/todo state for automatic resume.
joenandez/spectre
User-invoked front door for durable capture. An agent skill from joenandez/spectre.
joenandez/spectre
Rewrite a verbose SPECTRE skill into a compact, contract-form Spectre skill proposal — clear on WHAT, silent on HOW — grounded in the spectre-light distillation and freedom-tier budget.
joenandez/spectre
Rewrite Spectre subagent definitions into compact, contract-driven agents with clear routing, least-privilege tools, output schemas, and an auditable rewrite trail.
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Turn completed branch work into a reviewer-ready PR: directly coordinate cleanup, rebase, one advisory full suite, repair/route failures, and spectre-createpr. Spectre Ship is an agent skill from joenandez/spectre. Turn completed branch work into a reviewer-ready PR: directly coordinate cleanup, rebase, one advisory full suite, repair/route failures, and spectre-createpr.
Spectre Ship fits situations like: asked to ship finished work; main/master pushes; autonomous request-to-PR delivery.
Run `npx skills add joenandez/spectre --skill spectre-ship -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/spectre/skills/spectre-ship in joenandez/spectre) into .claude/skills/spectre-ship in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
Run `npx skills add joenandez/spectre --skill spectre-ship -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/spectre/skills/spectre-ship in joenandez/spectre) into .agents/skills/spectre-ship in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add joenandez/spectre --skill spectre-ship -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/spectre-ship, .gemini/skills/spectre-ship, .github/skills/spectre-ship and .opencode/skills/spectre-ship in your project.
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Spectre Ship is instructions for the agent only.
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.
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.
Spectre Ship is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
About 1.8k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7.1k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 4.5k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Spectre Ship: Finishing a Development Branch (obra/superpowers, 297k stars), PR Babysitter (openinterpreter/openinterpreter, 69k stars), Check PR (onyx-dot-app/onyx, 32k stars) and PR Design Doc (OpenHands/OpenHands, 91k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
joenandez (a GitHub user) maintains it in joenandez/spectre, which has 164 GitHub stars. The repository holds 26 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 2, 2026.
Source: joenandez/spectre on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.