prep SKILL.md skillA
prep from mikestankavich/claude-ship-workflow is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add mikestankavich/claude-ship-workflow/prep@git:20260907.7795998Pins git:20260907.7795998 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- mikestankavich/claude-ship-workflow
- Path
skills/prep/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260907.7795998, committed Sep 7, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 3, 2026
- Size
- 16,685 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
Spec a ticket before it is dispatched. Brainstorms it, decides everything it can recommend an answer for, asks a present human about the little that survives, and leaves the spec, the decisions and anything still open as one ticket comment. No worktree, no branch, no pull request, and the ticket stays where it was.
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
# Prep a ticket for dispatch **Announce at start:** "Using csw:prep to spec <ticket> without touching the repo." Invocation: $ARGUMENTS A batch loop only compounds *after* a failure: a ticket blocks, the question lands on the ticket, and the next dispatch starts from a better brief — so one wasted dispatch is the price of every question discovered. Prep moves that discovery in front of the dispatch, where it costs a comment instead of a night. Prep does not implement anything. It reads, it decides everything it can defend a recommendation for, it asks about the little that survives that test, and it writes one comment carrying all of it. **Prep is an interactive command**, and that is the design centre rather than a variant of it. The person who can answer typed the invocation and is sitting there for the whole run, so a run ends in one of two states, both of which leave the ticket **dispatchable**: - Every question that would block an autonomous build has an answer, recorded on the ticket in the run that asked it. - There were none, and prep says so. The second is the common one and the one to aim for. A question left in a comment for someone …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add mikestankavich/claude-ship-workflow/prep@sha256:a2f530b0cf0a27b9The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260907.7795998, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_sibcpckbrxh4fdnn)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Aug 3, 2026 and Sep 7, 2026, about one every 9 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260907.7795998 latest | 2026-09-07 | 7795998 | 16,685 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260804.a7332c6 | 2026-08-04 | a7332c6 | 15,768 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260804.c449fa2 | 2026-08-04 | c449fa2 | 14,952 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260804.2dc8349 | 2026-08-04 | 2dc8349 | 13,436 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260803.fbf7233 | 2026-08-03 | fbf7233 | 7,401 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (16685 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
mikestankavich/claude-ship-workflow · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-08 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_sibcpckbrxh4fdnn GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mikestankavich/claude-ship-workflow/prep GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a2f530b0cf0a27b9146a584b12689b503ebad11ca83e8299f5cd9798aefe5a51
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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