Agent skill

Ship

by nightly-labs in nightly-labs/openbot

Ship the current branch to main. An agent skill from nightly-labs/openbot.

Custom licenceAuto-check passedDevelopment

Install Ship

skills CLI
$ npx skills add nightly-labs/openbot --skill ship -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install nightly-labs/openbot 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/nightly-labs/openbot.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/ship .claude/skills/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
ship
GitHub stars
489
Token cost
~1.6k tokens
SKILL.md length
974 words
Files
2
Skills in repo
15
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Ship the current branch to main. An agent skill from nightly-labs/openbot.

  • Works in 5 steps: Commit the finished work. Write the… → Review origin/main...HEAD for… → Triage each finding as babysit Step 2… → …
  • A feature is done and the user asks to ship it
  • SKILL.md covers Before you start, Gate 1 — Review the diff locally, Gate 2 — Open the pull request and Gate 3 — Babysit the NorbiAI…, plus 4 more sections
  • Calls gh and git

What it does

Ship is an agent skill from nightly-labs/openbot. Ship the current branch to main. Review the diff, fix findings, open the pull request, babysit the NorbiAI review and CI until green, then squash-merge. Use when a feature is done and the user asks to ship it, open and merge a PR, or get the change to main.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.6k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files (for example `agents/openai.yaml`).

It sits in Development, covering Code review and Pull requests. It works with Git. The repository describes itself as: A local-first desktop workspace for persistent AI teammates. Run Codex, Claude, and Grok with dedicated workspaces, task queues, file sharing, browser control, and agent-to-agent…

When your agent uses it

  • A feature is done and the user asks to ship it
  • Open and merge a PR
  • Get the change to main

Example prompts

  • “/ship”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Commit the finished work. Write the message in ASD-STE100 Simplified
  2. Review origin/main...HEAD for correctness, data loss, the
  3. Triage each finding as babysit Step 2 says: fix only findings that
  4. Run the narrowest relevant test file and
  5. Commit the fixes. The pre-commit hook runs its own checks. Do not use

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit c7d6ee9. 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

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • gh
    • git

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

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use gh and 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 1.6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 66 tokens; SKILL.md has 974 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~66
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.6k

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

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 974 words (~1,582 tokens).

“Move one finished branch to main through five gates: local review, pull request, NorbiAI review, CI, merge. Do each gate in sequence. Do not skip a gate to go faster.”

— opening of SKILL.md by nightly-labs, Custom licence
name
ship

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file in .agents/skills/ship of nightly-labs/openbot.

  • SKILL.md
  • agents/openai.yaml

Open the folder on GitHubat commit c7d6ee9

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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.

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Ship this skillnightly-labs/openbot489—~1.6kAutomated safety check: PassCustom licence
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Understand Diff AnalysisEgonex-AI/Understand-Anything86k—~1.4kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
Code Reviewflutter/flutter179k—~1.4kAutomated safety check: PassBSD-3-Clause
PR Review State Fetchprisma/orm48k—~767Automated safety check: PassApache-2.0
Knowledge Graph PR Reviewtirth8205/code-review-graph32k—~452Automated safety check: PassMIT

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Questions about Ship

What does Ship do?

Ship the current branch to main. An agent skill from nightly-labs/openbot. Ship is an agent skill from nightly-labs/openbot. Ship the current branch to main.

When should I use Ship?

Ship fits situations like: A feature is done and the user asks to ship it; open and merge a PR; get the change to main.

How do I install Ship in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Ship in Codex?

Run `npx skills add nightly-labs/openbot --skill ship -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/ship in nightly-labs/openbot) into .agents/skills/ship in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use 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 nightly-labs/openbot --skill 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/ship, .gemini/skills/ship, .github/skills/ship and .opencode/skills/ship in your project.

What does Ship need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Ship needs the command-line tools its instructions call (gh and git).

Does Ship access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Its commands use gh and git, which can reach the network depending on how they are called. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Ship 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 Ship use?

Ship has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Ship use?

About 1.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.3k 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 Ship?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Ship: Open Code Review CLI (alibaba/open-code-review, 46k stars), Understand Diff Analysis (Egonex-AI/Understand-Anything, 86k stars), Code Review (flutter/flutter, 179k stars) and PR Review State Fetch (prisma/orm, 48k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Ship?

nightly-labs (a GitHub organization) maintains it in nightly-labs/openbot, which has 489 GitHub stars. The repository holds 15 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: nightly-labs/openbot on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.