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name: prove-it-ship-gate

description: >

Auto-trigger when claiming a feature, worker, or integration is done, shipped,

or working and the Goal includes live side effects (Linear tickets, deploy,

live mine, external APIs). Unit/fixture tests and UI registration alone are

not enough — route to prove-it for live evidence before treating the claim

as settled.

---

# prove-it-ship-gate

Thin routing skill for ship/done claims with live side effects.

Follow Invoker or a locally installed `prove-it` for the shared evidence rule.

This file only adds the ship/done auto-route; it does not replace `prove-it`.

## Rule

When the work under claim has live side effects:

- **Fixture ≠ live.** Unit tests, mocked fixtures, and UI registration Visual

Proof do not prove the live path ran.

- Before stating done / shipped / working: show **live evidence in the same

turn**, or prefix the claim with `UNVERIFIED: live path`.

- Do not frame UI Visual Proof (for example worker registration in a settings

panel) as product e2e of the live side effect.

+ ## Mechanical enforcement

+ The same-turn check is a Stop hook, `engine/hooks/prove-it-ship-gate/`

+ (installed by `install.sh`). It blocks the turn when a done/shipped/live claim sits

+ near a live-side-effect noun with no chaseable evidence, no live command this turn,

+ and no `UNVERIFIED: live path` prefix. This file keeps the judgment half: deciding

+ whether the work really has live side effects.

## Incident

Invoker PRs #10553–#10558 published cross-repo-research after unit + fixture +

UI only; the user forced a live Linear e2e and a reflect afterward.

## Related

If the claim isn't done/shipped but repeated failed attempts on one problem within a live session, that's `narrow-the-scope`, not this skill.

If a grading/validation board came back FAIL or NEEDS_WORK, or the user says "/thrash", that's `thrash-reflect-automate`.