ship-check SKILL.md skillA

ship-check from joetawil7/first-pass is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add joetawil7/first-pass/ship-check@git:20261017.09925bf

Pins git:20261017.09925bf in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
joetawil7/first-pass
Path
skills/ship-check/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
15
Latest version
git:20261017.09925bf, committed Oct 17, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 25, 2026
Size
24,125 bytes
Repository stars
107
License
MIT

The definition of done. Run before calling any change done, fixed, verified, ready or shippable, for features and bug fixes alike. Checks the pre-mortem was answered, proves the tests fail on the old code, gets a fresh breaker review, runs CI's own checks in a clean checkout, checks the user-facing words, and writes the evidence report. Also use when asked "is it done", "is it ready", "did you verify it" or "can we merge".

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# ship-check

Walk every step. A step you cannot do goes in the report under "Not verified" with the
reason; it is never skipped silently. The repo's commands, test limits and heavy-run rules
are in the `first-pass:project` block of its instruction file (AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md); if
there is none, read them from the CI config and say so in the report. Its test limits bind
every step below, and so do the machine block's limits (how this machine bounds a heavy run,
and the browsers and devices it can look at a UI with).

Run everything inside the repo that changed (`cd <repo>`, `git -C <repo>`), not from a main
folder above it. A change that spans repos walks the steps once per repo.

A prompt with several items walks steps 1 and 2 per item, while each is built, running only
the tests that item touches; one clean checkout of the base serves every item's fail-first
run. Steps 3 and 4 run once for all of them, after the last item is built: one review per
item (small items that touch the same code can share one), started together only where the
repo's test limits say side-by-side runs are safe (at most three at once), otherwise one
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add joetawil7/first-pass/ship-check@sha256:2fe31062fd94e6ae

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261017.09925bf, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_gvp3pufucexxozdz.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_gvp3pufucexxozdz)

3 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 15 versions of this file, between Sep 25, 2026 and Oct 17, 2026, about one every 2 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261017.09925bf latest2026-10-17 09925bf 24,125 BA view · diff
git:20261017.8c8e14b2026-10-17 8c8e14b 23,963 BA view · diff
git:20261014.81d2b782026-10-14 81d2b78 23,222 BA view · diff
git:20261013.d07a35c2026-10-13 d07a35c 21,748 BA view · diff
git:20261009.f5bc4132026-10-09 f5bc413 21,659 BA view · diff
git:20261008.9b47d322026-10-08 9b47d32 17,486 BA view · diff
git:20261007.2d3e8392026-10-07 2d3e839 16,378 BA view · diff
git:20261001.a4388fa2026-10-01 a4388fa 14,523 BA view · diff
git:20260930.5defa602026-09-30 5defa60 13,015 BA view · diff
git:20260929.5291e172026-09-29 5291e17 11,728 BA view · diff
git:20260927.b061d042026-09-27 b061d04 8,919 BA view · diff
git:20260927.68f71e32026-09-27 68f71e3 8,543 BA view · diff
git:20260927.561b84d2026-09-27 561b84d 6,797 BA view · diff
git:20260927.4ea71a72026-09-27 4ea71a7 6,359 BA view · diff
git:20260925.b12fce82026-09-25 b12fce8 6,027 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (24125 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

joetawil7/first-pass · 107 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-17 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_gvp3pufucexxozdz
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=joetawil7/first-pass/ship-check
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/2fe31062fd94e6ae35535a7750077631bf963b4347b7b224879a2ba12e2f1b9d

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.

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