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  "slug": "ai-end-to-end-ship-workflow",
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    "title": "AI End-to-End Ship Workflow",
    "subtitle": "A field guide to the /relay-ship skill",
    "description": "Shipping a PR is 12 steps. /relay-ship runs them: merge base, run tests, audit coverage, review diff, bump version, commit, push, create PR. Stops only for real judgment.",
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    "publishedAt": "2026-02-09",
    "updatedAt": "2026-02-09",
    "readingMinutes": 7
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      "type": "paragraph",
      "text": "Shipping a PR is the same sequence every time and yet teams botch it on a regular basis. Forgot to merge main first, tests fail because of an unrelated upstream change. Forgot the version bump. Pushed without running the full test suite. Created the PR without the right description. The sequence is mechanical, the failures are common, and each one is a small irritation that adds up across a team."
    },
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      "type": "paragraph",
      "text": "The `/relay-ship` skill is the end-to-end ship workflow. Merge the base branch into the feature branch. Run tests. Audit coverage to catch regressions. Review the diff for accidental changes. Bump version if applicable. Commit with a structured message. Push. Create the PR with a generated description and the test plan. The skill is non-interactive by default; it stops only for real judgment calls (test failure that needs attention, conflicting merge, ambiguous version bump)."
    },
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      "type": "heading",
      "level": 2,
      "text": "What ship workflow covers"
    },
    {
      "type": "paragraph",
      "text": "Eight steps. 1: Merge the latest main into the feature branch (rebase or merge depending on team policy). 2: Run the full test suite. 3: Audit test coverage if a coverage gate is configured. 4: Review the diff against the original commits to flag scope creep. 5: Bump the version if the project uses semver. 6: Commit with a structured message. 7: Push the branch. 8: Create the PR with a generated title, description, and test plan."
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      "text": "The single most useful checkpoint is the diff review. /relay-ship surfaces unrelated changes (logging tweaks, formatting drift, unintended file additions) before the PR is created so they can be removed or split rather than asked about in review."
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    {
      "type": "quote",
      "text": "Tonone's /relay-ship skill runs the end-to-end ship workflow non-interactively, stopping only for real judgment calls."
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    {
      "type": "heading",
      "level": 2,
      "text": "When to use /relay-ship"
    },
    {
      "type": "paragraph",
      "text": "`/relay-ship` is the right call when a feature branch is ready to merge and the team wants the mechanical steps automated. Skip it for work-in-progress commits or for branches that need design review before PR creation."
    },
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      "text": "Related skills"
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      "type": "heading",
      "level": 2,
      "text": "Install"
    },
    {
      "type": "paragraph",
      "text": "`/relay-ship` ships with the Relay agent in Tonone for Claude Code."
    },
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      "Tonone's /relay-ship skill runs the end-to-end ship workflow: merge base, test, coverage, diff review, version bump, commit, push, create PR.",
      "The skill is non-interactive by default and stops only for real judgment calls.",
      "Diff review surfaces unrelated changes before the PR is created.",
      "/relay-ship is part of Tonone, an MIT-licensed multi-agent system for Claude Code."
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    "comparisons": [
      {
        "alternative": "Manual git+test+pr loop",
        "difference": "Manual loop is the source of forgetting steps. /relay-ship runs them every time."
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      {
        "question": "What does /relay-ship do?",
        "answer": "It runs the end-to-end ship workflow: merge base into feature branch, run tests, review diff, bump version, commit, push, and create PR with description."
      },
      {
        "question": "Is /relay-ship interactive?",
        "answer": "Non-interactive by default. It stops only for real judgment calls (test failure, conflicting merge, ambiguous version bump)."
      },
      {
        "question": "How do I install /relay-ship?",
        "answer": "Install Tonone for Claude Code via tonone.ai/get-started. Tonone is free and MIT-licensed."
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