By Ship-With-AI
Ship With AI's full methodology kit as Claude Code skills: autopilot (single-project harness), factory (multi-project org chart via Paperclip), go-live (deploy), launch-day (first-user outreach), night-shift (overnight builds), parallel-build (multi-feature), context-tax (session diagnostic), graveyard (dead-project closeout), collect-feedback (tester pipeline). Companion to the Ship With AI newsletter at shipwithai.substack.com.
Use this skill whenever the user wants to ship a side project end-to-end on a deterministic, repeatable agent harness. Also trigger when the user says "/autopilot", "ship my side project on autopilot", "set up the harness", "wire up Archon for me", or "run the 5-decision setup". Takes idea + target user + stack as input, scaffolds three input files (idea.md/user.md/stack.md) plus done.md per feature, installs Archon, drops in the canonical SCOPE→BUILD→DEPLOY→FIRST-USER workflow with three approval gates, and runs it end-to-end. Human-in-the-loop: agent pauses at each gate (continue/revise/kill). Never auto-pushes to live URL without DEPLOY-gate approval. Appends one new rule to the project CLAUDE.md after every run.
Use this skill whenever the user wants to get feedback on their MVP, find testers, prepare outreach messages, create test scripts for users, analyze user feedback, or convert feedback into feature specs. Also trigger when the user mentions testers, user research, validation, feedback collection, or wants to know what to build next based on real user input. Use this even when the user says things like "I just built this, now what?" or "should I add more features?" — redirect them to collecting feedback first.
Retrospectively analyze the current Claude Code session and estimate how much time and tokens were spent on context work (explaining the codebase, style guide, conventions, correcting Claude when it reinvented existing utilities) vs. actual feature work. Use this skill whenever the user wants to audit session efficiency, measure how much time they lost to re-explaining context, or decide whether to invest in persistent project docs. Trigger on "/context-tax", or phrases like "calculate my context tax", "how much did I waste on context this session", "audit this session", "session breakdown", "was this session efficient", even if the user doesn't explicitly say "context tax".
Use when evaluating, filtering, scoring, validating, or pressure-testing a side project, startup idea, app idea, AI product idea, MVP, weekend build, or one-sentence product concept before implementation.
Use this skill whenever the user wants to run multiple side projects in parallel via an AI org chart. Also trigger when the user says "/factory", "ship multiple side projects in a day", "hire an AI company", "run my side-project portfolio", or "scale beyond one harness". Takes a company goal + monthly budget + 3-5 side-project ideas + stack defaults + day-plan start time, then installs Paperclip, creates a company with budget cap, hires a 3-5 agent org chart (CEO + CTO + 2 engineers + marketer for 5 projects), wires per-agent budgets and heartbeats, drops in a 12-hour day-plan calendar with explicit human-attention windows. Companion to /autopilot — assumes the reader has shipped at least one /autopilot run before. Human-in-the-loop at the four daily attention windows (9am standup / 1pm checkpoint / 5pm gate review / 9pm daily review).
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Reusable Claude Code skills for shipping side projects with AI. Each skill packages one Ship With AI methodology edition as a one-command install.
Two paths. Pick whichever fits your setup.
Single command. Works for 40+ agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, OpenCode, Amp, Cline, Aider, and more — auto-detected).
# Install all 12 skills to all detected agents
npx skills add Ship-With-AI/skills --all
# Or cherry-pick a single skill (e.g., just /autopilot)
npx skills add Ship-With-AI/skills --skill autopilot
# Or pick a few
npx skills add Ship-With-AI/skills --skill autopilot --skill factory
# Non-interactive (CI/CD or skip prompts)
npx skills add Ship-With-AI/skills --all -g -y
From vercel-labs/skills. No CLI install needed — npx fetches it on demand.
If you're Claude-Code-only and prefer native tooling (no extra CLI):
# 1. Register the marketplace (one-time)
claude plugin marketplace add Ship-With-AI/skills
# 2. Install the plugin (gets all 12 skills)
/plugin install ship-with-ai@ship-with-ai-skills
Every skill is available via natural-language invocation (/autopilot, /factory, /graveyard, etc.) regardless of which install path you used — agents trigger skills via the description: field in each SKILL.md, not via path or namespace.
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| autopilot | Wire the deterministic 5-decision harness that ships your next side project end-to-end — three input files, four named stages, three approval gates, one reflection rule per run. |
| collect-feedback | Find testers, prepare outreach, analyze feedback, and convert it into buildable specs. |
| context-tax | Audit a Claude Code session — measure how much time and tokens went to re-explaining context vs. shipping features. |
| evaluate-side-project | Evaluate, score, and pressure-test a side project idea before implementation — Reddit problem mining, Kaufman 10-factor score, and one-feature PASTA MVP verdict. |
| factory | Run multiple side projects in parallel via an AI org chart — Paperclip company, 3-5 agents, per-agent budgets, four daily attention windows. Companion to /autopilot at the portfolio scale. |
| go-live | Deploy to production — stack detection, hosting setup, domain config, and verification. |
| graveyard | Close out dead or abandoned side-project repos — produces portfolio story, three rehearsable STAR+R stories, and a closing README commit. |
| launch-day | Get first users and revenue — platform-specific launch posts, outreach templates, and a 24-hour timeline. |
| night-shift | Run autonomous overnight builds safely — pre-sleep checklists, guardrail configuration, and morning review. |
| parallel-build | Build multiple features simultaneously — dependency analysis, parallel agent sessions, and integration checks. |
| pre-flight | 4-question first-user-readiness eval — runs after /autopilot or /factory says "shipped." Checks output (does the URL work), trace (does the user flow complete), component (do promises resolve to code), drift (still shipping the original idea?). Produces a SHIP/FIX/REBUILD verdict. |
| steering-loop | Scaffold an agent harness inside any project (guides + sensors + steering-log) and iterate it one rep at a time — Read → Guide → Run → Sense → Log. The companion to the WHAT/WHY/HOW skill stack. |
This repo is a Claude Code plugin marketplace. Layout:
Ship-With-AI/skills/
├── .claude-plugin/
│ ├── marketplace.json # marketplace catalog
│ └── plugin.json # plugin manifest (name, version, skills path)
└── skills/
├── autopilot/
│ ├── SKILL.md # skill definition (required)
│ ├── assets/ # templates and static files
│ └── scripts/ # executable helpers
└── ... # one directory per skill
Per the Claude Code plugins reference: one plugin manifest, one marketplace catalog, skills nested under skills/<name>/SKILL.md. Adding a new skill = drop a new directory under skills/ — no additional metadata edits needed.
Ship With AI publishes a weekly methodology edition at shipwithai.substack.com. Each skill in this repo ships alongside an edition that explains the methodology behind it.
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