Shipmate
Your daily dev sidekick for tracking what you ship
Shipmate is a Claude Code plugin that generates conversational end-of-day summaries from your GitHub activity. Perfect for team standups, personal logs, or just remembering what you accomplished today.
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> Generate my end-of-day summary
⏺ I'm using the shipmate:eod skill to generate an end-of-day summary.
⏺ I'll generate your end-of-day summary. Let me start by creating a task list to track our
progress.
⏺ Now let me detect your GitHub organizations and username.
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⏺ User answered Claude's questions:
⎿ · Which GitHub activity would you like to include in your end-of-day summary? → Personal
account only (dreamiurg)
⏺ shipmate:github-analyzer-agent(Extract GitHub activity data)
⎿ Done (7 tool uses · 26.6k tokens · 1m 42s)
⏺ User answered Claude's questions:
⎿ · Which topics should be highlighted as main accomplishments? (Select 2-4. Everything else
will be grouped as 'Housekeeping') → Fixed Shipmate plugin naming and registration issues,
Wrote blog post about Shipmate development
⏺ shipmate:summarizer-agent(Generate conversational summary)
⎿ Done (0 tool uses · 6.4k tokens · 13.5s)
⏺ Here's your end-of-day summary:
Daily Update - November 5, 2025
- **Fixed Shipmate plugin naming and registration issues** - Spent some time debugging why the Shipmate
plugin kept triple-invoking itself. Turns out Claude Desktop’s plugin system auto-prefixes skill
names with the plugin name, so having both a slash command AND a skill with overlapping names was
causing conflicts. The skill was being called three different ways at once. Fixed it by removing the
slash command entirely and renaming the skill directory to match the expected registration name. Also
had to chase down a bunch of related issues - duplicate namespace prefixes, incorrect script paths
after the directory rename, and the version footer not updating properly. Got it all working and
released version 1.1.8 (https://github.com/dreamiurg/shipmate/releases/tag/v1.1.8)
- **Wrote blog post about Shipmate development** - Documented the journey of building the Shipmate
end-of-day summary skill, from initial idea through the naming issues I ran into today. Focused on
the process and what I learned about Claude Desktop’s plugin system - how it handles skill
registration, the auto-prefixing behavior, and why slash commands can collide with skill names. Also
added a style guide to my blog that emphasizes intellectual honesty and process-focused narrative,
inspired by writing principles of the blog authors I follow.
- **Housekeeping** - Set up pre-commit hooks for several repos (gitleaks for secrets, markdownlint for
documentation quality, conventional commits for PR titles), added CI workflow to Shipmate with
badges for build status and latest release, configured branch protection, updated documentation to
reference the main branch instead of master, and cleaned up some stale tool version files.
How It Works
The shipmate:eod skill follows a multi-phase workflow to generate conversational end-of-day summaries:
graph TB
Start([User asks Claude for<br/>end-of-day summary]) --> Detect[Phase 1: GitHub Detection<br/>Scan for GitHub organizations<br/>and personal account]
Detect --> Scope{Multiple GitHub<br/>identities found?}
Scope -->|Yes| AskScope[Ask user which scope:<br/>Personal, Org, or All]
Scope -->|No| ExtractGH
AskScope --> ExtractGH
ExtractGH[Phase 2: GitHub Extraction<br/>github-analyzer-agent Haiku]
ExtractClaude[Phase 3: Claude Session Extraction<br/>claude-analyzer-agent Haiku]
ExtractGH --> ParallelGH[Run parallel GitHub CLI queries<br/>for last 24 hours]
ExtractClaude --> SearchSessions[Search ~/.claude/ directory<br/>for session history]
ParallelGH --> Commits[Commits<br/>gh search commits]
ParallelGH --> Issues[Issues<br/>gh search issues]
ParallelGH --> PRs[Pull Requests<br/>gh search prs]
Commits --> Correlate
Issues --> Correlate
PRs --> Correlate
SearchSessions --> Correlate
Correlate[Phase 4: Correlation<br/>Match sessions to GitHub activity<br/>by time proximity + project path]
Correlate --> Enrich[Enrich GitHub activities with<br/>related session context]
