Ship

Instruction-first SDLC framework

Ship gives your agent a method, not a vendor lock-in

Use one guided prompt to adapt delivery, QA, release gates, and retros to your existing stack (Linear/Jira/GitHub Issues/spreadsheets, any CI, any agent runtime).

Choose Your Path

What You Get

  • Interactive onboarding — agent asks discovery questions before changing files.
  • Portable contracts — queue, QA split, release gates, digest/retro rhythm.
  • Evidence trail — decisions and automation outputs stay auditable.
  • Continuous improvement — retro feedback can become Ship backlog issues safely.

Local run

Next.js (manual + landing) — from repo root:

npm install
npm run landing:dev

Open http://127.0.0.1:3000/docs for this manual.

Backend API:

python3 -m venv .venv
. .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements-backend.txt
uvicorn backend.app.main:app --reload --host 127.0.0.1 --port 8100

Buying & procurement

Ship is methodology + prompts + reference implementations.

  • No mandatory vendor bundle.
  • No implicit SLA unless your org adds one.
  • Exit path is explicit because interfaces are documented.

Documentation versioning

Current manual version: 0.7.0 (ship with the repository).

License

Apache 2.0 for this repository unless a file says otherwise. See Legal & copyright.

This manual ships inside the Next.js site — no separate MkDocs server.

Getting started