What problem does it solve?
Manual build pipeline orchestration for complex software features is prone to human error, including skipped review steps, inconsistent state management, and unaddressed merge drift that leads to painful conflict resolution during pull requests. This skill eliminates those risks by automating the entire build process with strict, non-negotiable guardrails.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Automated Task Manifest Execution: Dispatches specialized builder agents for each task in a build manifest, with support for model escalation for high-complexity work like schema migrations or cross-domain seams.
- Mandatory Review Checkpoints: Enforces review panels after every build round, including UI auditing, quality reviews, and context mapper checks, with a strict no-skip policy for any mandatory step.
- Proactive Drift & Bug Prevention: Automatically merges upstream main branch changes every 3 rounds to reduce merge conflicts, and checks the internal knowledge base for high-severity lessons to avoid repeating past bug patterns.
- Use Case: Engineering teams building full-stack features can use this skill to standardize their build process, ensuring every round follows the same rigorous checks for wiring errors, orphaned components, and schema mismatches before code reaches review.
Quick Start
Use the ship-foreman skill by providing the path to your task manifest file and the path to your worktree directory to automate your entire build pipeline with enforced review checkpoints, drift prevention, and bug pattern checks.