Ship

Ship is a DevOps skill for Claude Code, published by rtk-ai in rtk.

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Install Ship

Copy Ship into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk/tree/develop/.claude/skills/ship ~/.claude/skills/ship

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: .claude/skills/ship/SKILL.md in rtk-ai/rtk
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/ship
Collection: One of 12 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: DevOps — 798 skills

What Ship does

Ship automates the complete release cycle for RTK: build verification, version bump, changelog update, git tag, and push to trigger CI/CD. Use it before tagging a new version to ensure quality checks pass and releases are safe.

Ship is cataloged under DevOps on DirSkills. Ship comes from a repository tagged agentic-coding, ai-coding, anthropic, claude-code and cli.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Ship Release

Systematic release workflow for RTK: build verification, version bump, changelog update, git tag, and push to trigger CI/CD.

When to Use

Manual invocation: When ready to release a new version
After feature completion: Before tagging and publishing
Before version bump: To automate the release checklist

Pre-Release Checklist (Auto-Verified)

Before running /ship, verify:

1. Quality Checks Pass

cargo fmt --all --check    # Code formatted
cargo clippy --all-targets # Zero warnings
cargo test --all           # All tests pass

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Ship provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/ship

Frequently asked about Ship

What else does rtk-ai publish alongside Ship?
Ship is one of 12 skills that DirSkills catalogs from rtk-ai/rtk, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Code Simplifier, Issue Triage and PR Review. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Ship does, and is maintained by rtk-ai in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the rtk-ai/rtk page.
How does Ship compare to other DevOps skills?
Ship ranks #13 by stars among the 798 DevOps skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Backend Patterns, API Connector Builder and Migration. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Ship against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.