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Shipping Methodology

Enforces a five-stage ship pipeline — verify gate, commit strategy, docs, PR, human-approved merge — with code integrity checks.

Dev & CodingIntermediate★ 126⑂ 8AI score 9/10Last updated: Apr 22, 2026

What it does

  • Gate check first: confirms claudikins-kernel:verify passed and that code hasn't changed since (commit SHA plus file-manifest hash comparison).
  • Five stages: pre-ship review → commit strategy (squash vs preserve history) → README/CHANGELOG/version updates → PR creation → CI check, human-approved merge, branch cleanup.
  • Templates: commit formats for feat/fix/breaking change/chore, a PR body structure (Summary/Changes/Testing/Screenshots), and Keep a Changelog entries.
  • Safety rails: blocks force pushes to main/master/release, detects breaking changes (removed public functions, changed signatures), retries GitHub API 3× with backoff, and defines CI-failure recovery paths.
  • State tracking: writes ship-state.json with per-phase approvals, PR number, merge SHA, and deleted branches.

Who it's for

  • Developers who want PRs, changelogs, and version bumps done consistently every time
  • Team leads who want to stop AI agents from auto-merging unverified code to main
  • Users of the claudikins-kernel plugin (verify/ship commands)

Example uses

  1. Shipping three feature branches: it summarises +450/-120 lines and verify status, asks squash vs preserve, then drafts a commit message for approval.
  2. You tweak one line after verification: the commit-hash check fires and it demands a re-verify instead of shipping.
  3. CI reports 2 lint errors and 1 test failure: it offers view-logs / fix-and-retry / skip-with-caveat instead of merging anyway.

· · · Install guide · · ·

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  2. In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
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Copy the skills/shipping-methodology folder from the GitHub repo povvo/claudikins-kernel into my ~/.claude/skills/shipping-methodology/.
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Install with a command instead

git clone https://github.com/povvo/claudikins-kernel.git /tmp/claudikins-kernel && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r /tmp/claudikins-kernel/skills/shipping-methodology ~/.claude/skills/

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Open a terminal.
  2. Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/povvo/claudikins-kernel.git
  3. Create the skills directory: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  4. Copy the skill: cp -r claudikins-kernel/skills/shipping-methodology ~/.claude/skills/
  5. Verify the bundled references/ docs came along: ls ~/.claude/skills/shipping-methodology
  6. Restart Claude Code, then ask something like "prepare the PR" or "run the ship process" to trigger it.
  7. For the gate checks to work end to end, also install the claudikins-kernel plugin that provides the verify/ship commands.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT