# workflow-ship-change

Enforces a structured release pipeline with test runs, visual proof, changelog entries, and strict guards before pushing or publishing changes.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 328 installs · ★ 7001
- Author: MengTo
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/MengTo/Skills/tree/HEAD/agent-skills/workflow/workflow-ship-change/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-25
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/workflow-ship-change

## What it does

The skill walks a change through a seven-step pipeline: taking 1600×900 screenshots, adding player-facing changelog entries with pictures, running full test suites, and building cleanly off `origin/main`. It forces staging explicit paths only, avoiding loose `git add -A` patterns, credentials, or build artifacts.

Under the hood, it pairs with scripts like `push-main.sh` and `commit-size.sh` to measure commit payloads and prevent accidental non-fast-forward pushes. It also checks sibling worktrees to prevent collisions when multiple sessions edit the repository at once.

Any upload exceeding 50 MB stops the process until you approve it, preventing accidental bulk uploads or silent quota spikes.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add MengTo/Skills --skill workflow-ship-change -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/workflow-ship-change/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/workflow-ship-change/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add MengTo/Skills --skill workflow-ship-change -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/workflow-ship-change/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add MengTo/Skills --skill workflow-ship-change -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/workflow-ship-change/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install MengTo/Skills workflow-ship-change
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/workflow-ship-change/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add MengTo/Skills --skill workflow-ship-change -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/MengTo/Skills --path agent-skills/workflow/workflow-ship-change
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/workflow-ship-change/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add MengTo/Skills --skill workflow-ship-change -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/MengTo/Skills/tree/HEAD/agent-skills/workflow/workflow-ship-change/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- capture inline gameplay screenshots for release verification
- prevent accidental force-pushes and non-fast-forward merges to main
- verify incoming commit test suites alongside local changes
- block unconfirmed file uploads exceeding 50 MB

## Example prompts
- Ship the latest fix according to workflow-ship-change
- Commit our staged work, verify test runs, and push to main
- Publish the current branch live and update the changelog

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: workflow-ship-change
description: Ship every change the way the user requires, with the guardrails. Take screenshots of the start, the key moment and the result; give the change its own changelog version with pictures; verify with tests; commit only your own files; merge with the latest main and push as a fast-forward; publish that exact main live; confirm each step; and report measured sizes, asking before any upload over 50 MB. Use at the end of every change (feature, fix, tweak, art, balance, polish) and whenever the user says "ship it", "commit", "push", "merge", "publish", "deploy", "go live" or "update the changelog". Project specifics (hosting, the changelog pipeline, merge conflicts) go in an optional local references/<project>.md next to this skill.
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# Workflow: ship a change

A change is **done** only when all of these are true, and the report shows each one:

1. **Screenshots** of the real rendered game: the start state, the key moment and the result. They're shown inline in the report.
2. **Its own changelog version**, with its pictures on the in-game changelog page.
3. **Verified**:
   - your own tests;
   - the tests of commits you merged in;
   - the asset checks;
   - the full suite, run on the pushed commit.
4. **Committed**: one cohesive commit, with only your own files staged.
5. **Pushed** to `main` as a fast-forward, and confirmed on GitHub.
6. **Live**: the build of that exact `main` is published, and confirmed working on the real domain.
7. **Measured**: the sizes of the commit, the push, any upload and the publish, all measured, never estimated.

Pushing and publishing are standing authorizations for the project's own repository and live site. So don't ask before them, **except** where a guardrail below says stop. Read the project's `AGENTS.md` before starting, and this skill's `references/<project>.md` if there is one. Project rules change often, and wherever they differ from this skill, they win.

## Guardrails: stop and ask the user

- **Any upload over 50 MB.** That covers a git push, a Netlify deploy, a media release, and files sent to any outside service.
  - Measure first (`upload-size.sh`, or the pack size `push-main.sh` prints), and state the size when asking.
  - Count the whole operation, and never split it to get under.
  - A full Supabase media release (about 861 MiB) always needs asking.
- **A force-push**, rewriting remote history, changing repository visibility, or pushing to another repository.
- **A new site or project**, or changing a site's access, domain or DNS, unless the task is exactly that and the user asked for it.
- **When the permission check blocks** a deploy, rollback or upload: stop. Don't retry it another way or through another thread. Tell the user the exact click path or command.
- **Live broken after your publish:** say so first in your report, with the measured evidence and the rollback click path. Don't bury it.

## Guardrails: never
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