Overview
shipping-and-launch is an open-source workflow skill for Claude Code and compatible agents, published by addyosmani. Its author describes it as: “Prepares production launches. Use when preparing to deploy to production, or when asking what needs to be in place before shipping. Use when you need a pre-launch checklist, when setting up monitoring, when planning a…”. The project has 98k stars on GitHub and is available under the MIT license. Add it to your setup with `/plugin marketplace add addyosmani/agent-skills`.
What shipping-and-launch does
Ship with confidence. The goal is not just to deploy — it's to deploy safely, with monitoring in place, a rollback plan ready, and a clear understanding of what success looks like. Every launch should be reversible, observable, and incremental.
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What’s inside
The SKILL.md for shipping-and-launch is organised into these sections:
- Overview
- When to Use
- The Pre-Launch Checklist
- Code Quality
- Security
- Performance
- Accessibility
- Infrastructure
- Documentation
- Feature Flag Strategy
- Staged Rollout
- The Rollout Sequence
Installation
Add shipping-and-launch to your agent with:
/plugin marketplace add addyosmani/agent-skillsReview a skill’s source before installing it — skills can instruct your agent to run commands. This command comes from the skill’s public repository, which is the source of truth for setup steps. New to skills? Read how to install Claude Code skills.
Supported agents
- Claude Code — ships a claude code plugin marketplace
- Codex — declared in the repository topics
- Cursor — declared in the repository topics
- Antigravity — declared in the repository topics
License
shipping-and-launch is published under the MIT license.
Strengths
- Clear MIT license — safe to read and adapt within its terms
- Ships in addyosmani/agent-skills, an established project with 97,992 GitHub stars
- Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Antigravity
- Actively maintained — repository updated in the last 30 days
- Its repository gained 16,916 GitHub stars over the last 52 days
Author
Topics
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Frequently asked questions
- What does shipping-and-launch do?
- Prepares production launches. Use when preparing to deploy to production, or when asking what needs to be in place before shipping. Use when you need a pre-launch checklist, when setting up monitoring, when planning a staged rollout, or when you need a rollback strategy.
- How do I install shipping-and-launch?
- Run /plugin marketplace add addyosmani/agent-skills in your agent, then reload your skills. Review the source at https://github.com/addyosmani/agent-skills before installing.
- Is shipping-and-launch free to use?
- Yes. shipping-and-launch is free and open source under the MIT license, so you can read, run, and adapt it within that license's terms.
- Which agents does shipping-and-launch work with?
- shipping-and-launch lists Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Antigravity — named in its SKILL.md, its plugin marketplace or its repository topics. Skills use the portable SKILL.md format, so other agents that read that format may load it too.
- Where does shipping-and-launch come from?
- shipping-and-launch ships inside addyosmani/agent-skills, a repository that contains 26 catalogued skills in total. The repository's 97,992 GitHub stars apply to that whole collection, not to this skill on its own.
