gstack/skills/ship/SKILL.md

name, description

name	description
ship	Prepare, land, deploy, monitor, or resume a release. Use for checks, versioning, docs, commits, PRs, merge gates, production verification, and rollback.

GStack Ship

Select one release stage, preserve human and automated gates, and make every external mutation explicit.

Required execution header

Before any substantive output, print these exact labels in this exact order. Resolve the specialist refinement first; do not put prose above the header.

Target: <concrete repository, product, URL, device, PR, or artifact>
Mode: <selected top-level mode>
Depth: <quick, standard, or deep>
Mutation: <report-only or exact authorized mutation boundary>
Active modules: <comma-separated internal specialist modules>
Skipped modules: <comma-separated non-active mandatory modules with compact reasons>
Web context: <none, optional, local-browser, or production>

Dispatch protocol

1. Infer the mode from product stage, surface, requested artifact, mutation authorization, evidence needs, and deployment state. Do not route by keyword alone.

2. Refine the public mode to the smallest applicable internal specialist set, then print the required execution header before any substantive output.

3. Read each active module in full from the path shown in the mode/alias tables. Its legacy body, behavioral contract, STOP gates, and appended upstream judgment ports are binding.

4. Read references/SHARED-JUDGMENT.md and references/AUTHORITY-POLICY.md for every invocation. Read references/WEB-CONTEXT.md before public-web or optional-runtime work.

5. If an old asset path is unavailable, use references/ASSETS.md. If legacy prose invokes another retired skill, resolve it through references/COMPATIBILITY.md and stay inside these six dispatchers.

6. Preserve report-only versus mutation boundaries. Commits, pushes, PRs, merges, deploys, messages, and other external mutations still require the authority stated by the active module and the user.

7. Match the user's language. Keep code identifiers, commands, and source quotations original when translation would reduce accuracy.

8. At exit, report completed artifacts, evidence, unresolved decisions, skipped modules with reasons, and any blocked gate.

9. Before push, PR creation/update, merge, deploy, rollback, release publication, or external notification, read references/EXTERNAL-EFFECTS.md and execute the action through its durable state wrapper.

Top-level modes

Mode	Target	Infer when	Candidate internal specialists
Prepare	A working branch or release artifact	The work needs checks, review, release metadata, documentation, commit, push, PR creation, or queue status.	references/legacy/ship.md, references/legacy/landing-report.md, references/legacy/document-release.md
Land	An approved open PR	The requested next irreversible stage is merge/landing.	references/legacy/land-and-deploy.md
Deploy	A landed change or deploy configuration	The change is ready for deployment or deployment must first be configured.	references/legacy/setup-deploy.md, references/legacy/land-and-deploy.md
Monitor	A production deployment	The deploy needs thresholded continuous canary monitoring.	references/legacy/canary.md
Resume	An interrupted release operation	Persisted release state must be restored and authoritative external state reconciled before continuing.	references/legacy/context-restore.md, references/legacy/land-and-deploy.md

Hard rules

• Never force push or bypass failing tests.
• A requested human review is a hard merge gate unless the user gives the dedicated explicit override.
• Breaking-change analysis overrides line-count bump heuristics.

Internal specialist routing aliases

Every specialist below is an internal implementation detail, including mandatory inputs. The legacy alias refines a top-level mode; it never adds a public skill or top-level mode.

Legacy invocation	Legacy alias	Public mode	Role	Module
/ship	ship	Prepare	mandatory	references/legacy/ship.md
/land-and-deploy	land	Land	mandatory	references/legacy/land-and-deploy.md
/landing-report	queue	Prepare	mandatory	references/legacy/landing-report.md
/document-release	docs	Prepare	mandatory	references/legacy/document-release.md
/setup-deploy	setup	Deploy	mandatory	references/legacy/setup-deploy.md
/document-generate	docs-generate	Prepare	supporting	references/legacy/document-generate.md
/gstack-upgrade	upgrade	Prepare	supporting	references/legacy/gstack-upgrade.md
/ios-clean	ios-clean	Prepare	supporting	references/legacy/ios-clean.md
/ios-sync	ios-sync	Prepare	supporting	references/legacy/ios-sync.md

Completeness invariant

Do not work from this dispatcher summary when a module is active. Read the referenced module completely, including its provenance marker, behavioral contract, full mechanically rendered source, and bug-fix overlays.