Shiplog

The captain's log for your codebase. Every decision, discovery, and change logged as you ship code.

Use GitHub as a complete knowledge graph where every brainstorm, commit, review, and decision is traceable. This skill orchestrates existing skills and references; it defines when and how to invoke them and what documentation protocol to follow.

Core Principle

Nothing gets lost. Every brainstorm becomes an issue. Every issue drives a branch. Every branch produces a PR. Every PR is a timeline of the entire journey. Git becomes the uber-memory.

Golden-Path Walkthrough

A complete issue-to-merge example using a concrete fake issue #999. Follow this sequence and every artifact produced will pass the acceptance checklists in commands/shiplog/*.md.

Step 1 — Plan Capture (/shiplog plan)

A brainstorm produces: "Add rate-limit headers to the API so clients can back off intelligently." Load commands/shiplog/plan.md and create the issue: