/ship (v2 — full workflow)

Encodes the whole shipping pipeline as committed milestones: a session cutoff loses at most one step, never everything. v2 adds what real repos demanded: behavioral proof before commit, and branch-protection-aware delivery (PR-only mains, required signatures, squash-only merges).

The pipeline

0. Preflight   → where am I, what branch, what's dirty, what do the rules allow
1. Validate    → build + tests green, zero NEW warnings
2. Prove       → drive the actual change end-to-end and observe the behavior
3. Commit      → milestone commits, project style, rich message
4. Deliver     → push to main when allowed; branch + PR when protected
5. Verify      → remote accepted it; CI/deploy noted; journal updated

0 · Preflight

• git status --short + git log --oneline -5 — know the tree and the commit style before touching anything. Confirm with the user if unexpected files are staged.
• Respect the repo's branch model (check its CLAUDE.md). If it says "feature branches, PRs against main" — start on a branch, don't discover the rule at push time.

1 · Validate

Find the project's real check command (CLAUDE.md, then package.json scripts, then Package.swift/Makefile):

• Astro/blog: npm run check · TypeScript: npx tsc --noEmit · Swift: swift build && swift test --parallel · generic: npm test/make test
• Do not proceed on failure. Show the error, stop.
• Treat new warnings as failures-in-waiting (Swift 6 mode, deprecations) — fix them now or state why not.

2 · Prove (the step everyone skips)

Tests passing is not the change working. Exercise the actual surface once: run the CLI with real flags, curl the endpoint, load the page. Capture the observed output — it goes in the commit/PR body as evidence. If the change can't be driven end-to-end, say so explicitly rather than implying it was.

3 · Commit

• Milestone commits per logical unit (feat: …, fix: …, test: …, docs: …) — never one WIP: lots of changes at the end.
• Message body says WHY and cites the proof ("verified end-to-end: <observed>").
• Follow the project's style from git log; include the current model's standard Co-Authored-By: Claude … trailer.
• If the work invalidates any CLAUDE.md claim (backlog items done, files moved), update it in the same commit — map and territory together.

4 · Deliver — the protection decision tree

Try git push origin main only when the repo allows it. On rejection, read the error — it tells you the rules:

PR body = what/why + the end-to-end proof + anything the reviewer must know. Merge only when the user asked you to; otherwise leave the PR open and hand over the URL.

5 · Verify

• Show the actual push/merge output — never claim delivery without it.
• Note the deploy surface (e.g. Cloudflare Pages auto-deploys on push to main; verify: curl -sf <url> | grep -o '<title>[^<]*</title>').
• Watch for post-push remote warnings (Dependabot alerts ride in on git push output) — relay them, don't swallow them.
• If a workspace journal exists (docs/journal/DECISIONS.md), record what shipped and why.

Gotchas (all field-tested)

• Pipes eat exit codes. gh pr merge … | tail -2 || fallback never runs the fallback — the pipeline's status is tail's. Check $? on the command itself, or use set -o pipefail. A "merged" that wasn't is the worst failure mode this skill exists to prevent.
• After a squash merge, local main doesn't have the squash commit: git checkout main && git pull before building on top; delete the branch with --delete-branch at merge time.
• GPG signing failures — gpg-agent not running → gpgconf --launch gpg-agent; expired passphrase cache → gpg --card-status; wrong key → git config user.signingkey.
• Beta toolchains lie. A frontend crash compiling tests (Xcode-beta) can masquerade as your bug — get a real diagnostic with a direct swift build --build-tests before assuming fault.
• Worktrees share the remote, not the tree — confirm git status is the worktree you think it is before staging.
• npm run check takes 10–30s cold on Astro — expected, full rebuild.

Project quick-reference

• mazze-leczzare-blog: validate npm run check; Cloudflare Pages auto-deploys main; verify title via curl on mazzeleczzare.com.
• context-synapse: swift build && swift test --parallel; main is PR-only + signed + squash-only + Code Scanning — always the PR path.
• stele: pnpm (pnpm build, pnpm test); main is PR-only + signed — PR path.