OPS on-demand: This skill should be used when the user asks to "ship ops plugin", "merge all PRs and…

MITAuto-check: notesDevelopment

Install Ops Ship

skills CLI
$ npx skills add Lifecycle-Innovations-Limited/claude-ops --skill ops-ship -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install Lifecycle-Innovations-Limited/claude-ops ops-ship --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/Lifecycle-Innovations-Limited/claude-ops.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/claude-ops/skills/ops-ship .claude/skills/ops-ship && 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
ops-ship
GitHub stars
542
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
499 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
67
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

OPS on-demand: This skill should be used when the user asks to "ship ops plugin", "merge all PRs and…

  • Works in 3 steps: Dry-run — show the sweep + the version… → Confirm → Apply
  • Asks to ship ops plugin
  • SKILL.md covers ⚠️ It admin-merges EVERY open…, ⚠️ Run it from the REPO…, How to run it and Flags, plus 1 more section
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Ops Ship is an agent skill from Lifecycle-Innovations-Limited/claude-ops. OPS on-demand: This skill should be used when the user asks to "ship ops plugin", "merge all PRs and…

Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Development. The repository describes itself as: Business operating system for Claude Code — 57 skills, 21 agents, smart daemon. Unified inbox (WhatsApp/Email/Slack/Telegram), autonomous PR merge, full-AWS monitoring, revenue… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Asks to ship ops plugin
  • Merge all PRs and…

Example prompts

  • “ship ops plugin”
  • “/ops-ship”

Requirements

  • Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Bash, Read, AskUserQuestion

Workflow steps

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

  1. Dry-run — show the sweep + the version bump
  2. Confirm
  3. Apply

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1aa0928. 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
    • Read
    • AskUserQuestion

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are bash).

    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

Ops Ship loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 28 tokens; SKILL.md has 499 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~28
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.3k

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: notes

The automated check noted patterns worth knowing about, such as sudo or a known installer.

  • NotePre-approves every shell command (allowed-tools: Bash)SKILL.md
    allowed-tools: Bash, Read, AskUserQuestion

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 Lifecycle-Innovations-Limited/claude-ops at commit 1aa0928, republished under its MIT licence (© Lifecycle-Innovations-Limited). 499 words, ~1,301 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/ops-ship/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
ops-ship
description
OPS on-demand: This skill should be used when the user asks to "ship ops plugin", "merge all PRs and…
allowed-tools
Bash, Read, AskUserQuestion
argument-hint
[--type patch|minor|major] [--version X.Y.Z] [--notes "changelog body"] [--base BRANCH] [--no-update] [--dry-run]
disable-model-invocation
true

OPS ► SHIP — merge-all-PRs → release → update, in one command

Load ops-rules before acting. Public repo (no personal data). Outbound: one draft → one approval → one send. If AskUserQuestion / Workflow are missing, follow Rule 10 in ops-rules (Hermes: numbered options / two-turn Telegram card; delegate_task).

The whole release chain in a single shot:

  1. Sweep — admin squash-merge every open, non-draft PR targeting the base branch (default main), overriding required checks/reviews (gh pr merge --admin). A failed merge aborts before the release — no partial ship.
  2. Release — delegates to bin/ops-release: bump plugin.json + marketplace.json registry + package.json + CHANGELOG, open the release PR, admin-merge to main, tag vX.Y.Z.
  3. Update — runs the installed ops-update to pull the new version onto this box (skip with --no-update).

ops-ship = sweep + /ops:ops-release + /ops:ops-update in one. For just the publish step use /ops:ops-release; for just the pull step use /ops:ops-update.

⚠️ It admin-merges EVERY open non-draft PR — review the sweep first

By design the sweep is aggressive: it admin-merges all open non-draft PRs on the base branch, bypassing required checks (red CI, missing reviews) — exactly what you want for a trusted solo/own-org repo, dangerous if an unrelated or half-baked PR is open. So always dry-run first and show which PRs it will merge before applying (Rule 5 — bulk merge + outward-facing release + tag is high-impact and hard to reverse). It only skips drafts.

⚠️ Run it from the REPO CHECKOUT, not the cache

Like ops-release, ops-ship resolves its targets relative to its own path and needs REPO_ROOT/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json, which the plugin cache lacks. Run the copy inside a git checkout of the repo:

bash
SHIP=""
for d in ~/Developer/repos/claude-ops ~/Projects/claude-ops-workspace/claude-ops ~/Projects/claude-ops/claude-ops "$HOME"/Projects/*/claude-ops; do
  if [ -f "$d/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json" ] && [ -x "$d/claude-ops/bin/ops-ship" ]; then
    SHIP="$d/claude-ops/bin/ops-ship"; break
  fi
done
[ -n "$SHIP" ] || { echo "no claude-ops checkout with marketplace.json found"; exit 1; }

How to run it

1. Dry-run — show the sweep + the version bump
bash
"$SHIP" --type patch --dry-run

Present: the list of open PRs it will admin-merge, the version bump (current → new), the manifests touched, and the CHANGELOG block. (--notes defaults to a bullet list of the merged PR titles; pass --notes "…" to override.)

Show full SKILL.md (195 more words)Show less
2. Confirm

Use AskUserQuestion before applying (this merges PRs AND publishes):

Ship: admin-merge N open PR(s) on main, then release <CUR> → <NEW> + tag?
  [Ship it]
  [Dry-run only]
  [Cancel]
3. Apply
bash
"$SHIP" --type patch                 # or --version X.Y.Z, --notes "…", --no-update

Stream the step output (sweep → release → update). On success it ends with the new tag and the reload reminder. Surface the final line verbatim:

Restart Claude Code (or run /reload-plugins) to load v<NEW>.

Flags

FlagEffect
--type patch|minor|majorSemver bump for the release (default patch).
--version X.Y.ZExact target version instead of bumping.
--notes "…"CHANGELOG body. Defaults to a bullet list of the merged PR titles.
--base BRANCHBase branch for the PR sweep only (must be main; ops-release always publishes to main).
--no-updateDon't run ops-update afterwards (publish only).
--dry-runReport only — list PRs + the bump, change nothing. Always run this first.

Notes

  • PRs target main and are squash-merged with --admin (own-org PRs can't be self-approved; admin bypasses the review/required-check gates).
  • REST quota: the sweep and ops-release use gh (GitHub REST). If REST is exhausted (HTTP 403 rate-limit), wait for the reset window — ops-ship aborts before releasing if any merge fails rather than partial-shipping.
  • Publish ≠ loaded. The running session won't see the new version until ops-update (pull, run automatically unless --no-update) and /reload-plugins (load).
  • Siblings: /ops:ops-release (publish only), /ops:ops-update (pull only).

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Files

Just SKILL.md in claude-ops/skills/ops-ship of Lifecycle-Innovations-Limited/claude-ops.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1aa0928

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Questions about Ops Ship

What does Ops Ship do?

OPS on-demand: This skill should be used when the user asks to "ship ops plugin", "merge all PRs and…. Ops Ship is an agent skill from Lifecycle-Innovations-Limited/claude-ops.

When should I use Ops Ship?

Ops Ship fits situations like: asks to ship ops plugin; merge all PRs and….

How do I install Ops Ship in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add Lifecycle-Innovations-Limited/claude-ops --skill ops-ship -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (claude-ops/skills/ops-ship in Lifecycle-Innovations-Limited/claude-ops) into .claude/skills/ops-ship in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Ops Ship in Codex?

Run `npx skills add Lifecycle-Innovations-Limited/claude-ops --skill ops-ship -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (claude-ops/skills/ops-ship in Lifecycle-Innovations-Limited/claude-ops) into .agents/skills/ops-ship in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Ops Ship 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 Lifecycle-Innovations-Limited/claude-ops --skill ops-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/ops-ship, .gemini/skills/ops-ship, .github/skills/ops-ship and .opencode/skills/ops-ship in your project.

What does Ops Ship need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Ops Ship is instructions for the agent only. Its frontmatter pre-approves these tools: Bash, Read, AskUserQuestion.

Does Ops Ship 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 Ops Ship safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found notes only (pre-approves every shell command (allowed-tools: bash)), nothing it rates as a warning. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Ops Ship use?

Ops Ship 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 Ops Ship use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.2k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Ops Ship?

Lifecycle-Innovations-Limited (a GitHub organization) maintains it in Lifecycle-Innovations-Limited/claude-ops, which has 542 GitHub stars. The repository holds 67 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: Lifecycle-Innovations-Limited/claude-ops on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.