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Idea To Ship Skills

Composable Agent Skills (Claude + OpenAI Codex) for taking an idea from fuzzy → validated → sequenced build → shipped — a manual tier (ideate, deep-dive, prompt-pack) and an autonomous tier (autopilot, build-loop, audit-and-fix).

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Composable Agent Skills for Claude and Codex that guide an idea from validation through sequenced build to shipping, with manual and autonomous tiers.

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idea-to-ship

Composable Agent Skills — for Claude and OpenAI Codex — that take an idea from fuzzy → validated → sequenced build → shipped: by hand, or on autopilot.

Most "build with AI" workflows skip the hard half. They jump straight to code — and skip deciding what's actually worth building, validating it honestly, and planning the build so it ships in safe, verifiable steps. idea-to-ship is that missing front half — plus the autonomous build loop on the far side of it: a small, sharp suite of Agent Skills (they run in Claude and OpenAI Codex), reverse-engineered from real idea→ship journeys (including the mistakes those journeys made), so you don't repeat them.

The idea-to-ship pipeline — ideate → deep-dive → prompt-pack → build-loop — run by hand (manual tier), or flown by the autonomous tier: autopilot flies the whole line from an idea, while audit-and-fix re-enters at deep-dive on a codebase that already exists (including the one autopilot just built), skipping ideation because the code is the grounding. ↗

The proof ate the project: 18+ days of autopilot running autonomously on Codex 5.6 — every sealed commit plotted from the run's own log, verification milestones towering over product milestones. ↗
_{Live right now: autopilot's second stress test — 18+ days autonomous on Codex 5.6, every claim backed by a recorded receipt. See the mid-run debrief, failures included.}

They're separate, composable skills on purpose — sharp triggers, lean context, independent use. Run them by hand (the manual tier), or let autopilot fly the whole line for you (the autonomous tier).

Who it's for. Solo and small-team builders who tend to start coding before decidi

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# idea-to-ship

**Composable Agent Skills — for Claude and OpenAI Codex — that take an idea from *fuzzy* → *validated* → *sequenced build* → *shipped*: by hand, or on autopilot.**

Most "build with AI" workflows skip the hard half. They jump straight to code — and skip *deciding what's actually worth building*, *validating it honestly*, and *planning the build so it ships in safe, verifiable steps*. `idea-to-ship` is that missing front half — plus the autonomous build loop on the far side of it: a small, sharp suite of Agent Skills (they run in **Claude** and **OpenAI Codex**), reverse-engineered from real idea→ship journeys (including the mistakes those journeys made), so you don't repeat them.

<p align="center">
  <img src="assets/pipeline.svg" alt="The idea-to-ship pipeline — ideate → deep-dive → prompt-pack → build-loop — run by hand (manual tier), or flown by the autonomous tier: autopilot flies the whole line from an idea, while audit-and-fix re-enters at deep-dive on a codebase that already exists (including the one autopilot just built), skipping ideation because the code is the grounding." width="760">
</p>

<p align="center">
  <img src="assets/countershape-run.png" alt="The proof ate the project: 18+ days of autopilot running autonomously on Codex 5.6 — every sealed commit plotted from the run's own log, verification milestones towering over product milestones." width="760">
  <br>
  <sub>Live right now: <code>autopilot</code>'s second stress test — <strong>18+ days autonomous on Codex 5.6</strong>, every claim backed by a recorded receipt. See <a href="https://github.com/nelsonwerd/proof-ate-the-project">the mid-run debrief</a>, failures included.</sub>
</p>

They're **separate, composable** skills on purpose — sharp triggers, lean context, independent use. Run them **by hand** (the manual tier), or let **`autopilot`** fly the whole line for you (the autonomous tier).

**Who it's for.** Solo and small-team builders who tend to start coding before decidi

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