Ship
Run Consult's guarded maintainer flow for commit, merge, version bump, validation, and push.From its SKILL.md
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Ship
When to Use
- Use when the user asks to ship this Consult repository or explicitly invokes
$ship. - Use only for this repository's maintainer release flow: commit, merge to
main, bump release artifacts, validate, and push.
When NOT to Use
- Do not use for ordinary commits; use the
commitskill instead. - Do not use for release preparation by itself; use the
releaseskill. - Do not use outside this repository.
Iron Law
DO NOT RUN THE WHOLE SHIP FLOW UNATTENDED; STOP AT EVERY CONFIRMATION GATE.
Repo Facts
- Main branch is
main; remote isorigin. - There are two independent release streams. Never bump them in lockstep.
- Plugin version lives in
plugin/.claude-plugin/plugin.json,plugin/.codex-plugin/plugin.json,plugin/.cursor-plugin/plugin.json,.claude-plugin/marketplace.json, and.cursor-plugin/marketplace.json.plugin/plugin.jsonshould match these too; reconcile drift when bumping. - The
consultnpm package version lives inconsult/package.json. Bump it only when the diff changes the published package. - Root
package.jsonis private tooling and is not versioned for release. - Version marker is the
CHANGELOG.mdheader## [X.Y.Z] (YYYY-MM-DD). Promote## [Unreleased]into a dated version section and leave a fresh empty## [Unreleased]above it. - Releases are not git-tagged in this repo. Do not create or push a tag unless the user explicitly asks.
- Commit messages use imperative subjects and no author-attribution trailers.
Workflow
- Pre-flight: run
git statusandgit rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD. If the working tree is clean and already onmain, report that there is nothing to ship and stop. - Commit: review
git diffandgit diff --cached, group uncommitted changes into logical commits, propose the grouping, and get user approval before committing on the current branch. - Merge to main, only when not already on
main: rungit fetch origin, bringmainup to date, get user approval, then merge the current branch intomain. On conflicts, stop and show the conflicted files. - Bump the version on
main: use thereleaseskill to classify the bump from the merged diff, or use the user's explicitpatch,minor, ormajoroverride. Confirm the proposed version before writing. Update the relevant release artifacts and commit the bump asRelease <version>. - Validate and push: run the project validation gate before pushing. Abort on
failure. Get user approval before
git push origin main.
Before Saying Done
Report the branch shipped, merge result, old and new version per release stream, validation result, pushed commit, skipped release streams, and any remaining publishing or plugin-sync work.
Verification
- The skill stopped at each approval gate before committing, merging, versioning, and pushing.
- Release-stream bumps matched the actual changed surface.
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CHANGELOG.mdand every relevant manifest agreed after the version bump. - Validation ran before push, or the skipped validation is clearly reported.
What ships with it
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Gives 0 of the 12 instructions most ship operate skills give in 737 tokens
Counted across 1,077 of the 1,713 authors here whose files we hold, read 2026-09-06
- Create GitHub releasein 44 of 1077, across 43 files
- Run the test suitein 30 of 1077, across 25 files
- Create and push git tagin 27 of 1077, across 26 files
- Push commits and tagsin 27 of 1077
- Create annotated tagin 25 of 1077, across 22 files
- Ensure working tree is cleanin 24 of 1077
- Check for product marketing context firstin 23 of 1077, across 6 files
- Commit version bump changesin 22 of 1077, across 21 files
- Update CHANGELOG.mdin 21 of 1077, across 20 files
- Structure launch marketing across three channel typesin 20 of 1077, across 5 files
- Commit and tag the releasein 20 of 1077, across 18 files
- Update the CHANGELOG for new releasesin 19 of 1077
Said here and by no other author read
- Stop at every confirmation gate
- Run git status and git rev-parse
- Merge the current branch into main
- Update the relevant release artifacts
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