wb-ship

name: wb-ship description: WannaBuild ship/summary phase entrypoint for preparing verified work, asking for delivery mode, executing it, and cleaning up.

Contract Standard

This prompt follows docs/contract-standard.md and inherits the four mandates in skills/internal/build/references/doctrine.md; where this file is silent, the doctrine governs. Shared contract: purpose, inputs, process, hard gates, evidence, output, handoff, forbidden actions. Runtime gates fail closed and cannot be rationalized past; a runtime gate that cannot execute is a hard stop, never permission to proceed. Specialist judgment stays advisory unless a gate or acceptance criterion requires evidence.

Use this phase skill when the user wants to ship, merge, push, create a PR, or prepare final delivery. A wb-ship or wannabuild:wb-ship invocation starts or resumes the full WannaBuild loop. A direct jump to ship never bypasses an earlier phase: if the discovery baseline, review evidence, or QA evidence is missing, resume the missing phase before declaring the work ready (see Hard Gates).

Phase Bootstrap

Before any ship/summary phase work:

Confirm the discovery baseline Hard Gate below. If no concrete task exists, run the mandatory collaborative grill (one question at a time, each with a recommended answer) to establish the goal and acceptance criteria before any ship work. Never assume the goal — a vague goal or a one-word "ok" is not a baseline.
Work in the current checkout by default; do not create an isolated worktree for ship/handoff.
Hard-stop at the QA → Summary boundary before any delivery action: present what is ready to ship, name the delivery decision, and wait for an explicit approval word ("go", "proceed", "approved", "continue", "lgtm", "do it"). A vague acknowledgment ("ok", "sure") does not cross the boundary.

Purpose

Turn completed, reviewed, and QA-verified work into a clear ship-ready handoff, then ask for the delivery path.

Hard Gates (fail closed)

A FAIL or a missing artifact is a hard stop — it cannot be acknowledged away, waived, or rationalized past. Route every FAIL back to remediation; never proceed to a delivery action while any gate is failing.

Discovery baseline. .wannabuild/spec/requirements.md exists with an Acceptance Criteria section holding ≥1 concrete, checkable criterion. If absent, STOP and resume wb-discover and its mandatory collaborative grill — discovery fires on every task, including a one-line ship, and is never skipped because the request "looks trivial". Shipping has no anchor without it.
Review verdict. assert-review-ready passes: a PASS verdict from every required reviewer (security, performance, architecture, testing, code-simplifier, integration) for the latest iteration, each covering the entire changed surface. If review evidence is missing or any verdict is non-PASS, STOP and resume wb-review.
QA verdict. assert-qa-ready passes: QA validated execution (real tests ran, every acceptance criterion covered) — not text markers. If QA evidence is missing, STOP and resume wb-qa.
CI / verification evidence. Before declaring work ready you MUST hold pass/fail evidence for the change. Never declare CI "absent", "unverifiable", or "skipped" from a single failed lookup — exhaust the acquisition ladder below first. No required check may end in a "skipped" state.
Runtime summary gate. scripts/wannabuild-gate-check.sh <project_root> summary (which runs assert-summary-ready) returns PASS. Its FAIL is terminal and non-overridable: there is no acknowledgment path, no user wave-through. Route to remediation and re-run; do not proceed.

CI / Verification Acquisition Ladder

Exhaust, in order, and record each attempt in .wannabuild/outputs/acquisition-log.json (the assert-acquisition-attempted gate rejects any blocked/unverified status with no logged attempt):

GitHub Actions: gh pr checks <pr> and gh run list --branch <branch>; for an in-progress run, wait for it to finish (gh run watch) rather than reporting it as absent.
The project's own test, build, and lint commands run locally, with the exact commands, exit codes, and output captured into the verification evidence block.
Platform CI/deploy status via the project's connectors and CLIs when the project deploys through them — Railway, Vercel, Supabase, or Neon MCP tools and CLIs — because for those projects "CI status" lives there, not only in GitHub Actions.

A check that would be skipped for a missing resource (missing env, missing dependency, missing service) is not an acceptable end state: first obtain or stand up the resource (set required env from the project, spin up an ephemeral/local DB branch, run the app), then run the check. Only paid, outward-facing, or destructive acquisition is a stop-and-ask — present the specific resource and why; everything safe, local, and reversible you acquire yourself. Never silent-skip.

Defaults

Do not hide, omit, or soften any failed check. Report every check run and its result.
Do not create draft PRs unless the user explicitly asks for a draft.
Keep release notes and PR text grounded in actual changes — every claim traces to a real diff or a real check result. No placeholder, stub, or to-do text in shipped notes.
Use sub-agents only for distinct release, CI, documentation, or risk ownership.
Preserve active WannaBuild workflow state across turns until the task is complete or the user explicitly exits or stops.

Flow

Collect changed files, acceptance evidence, review status, and QA status.
Identify unresolved risks or follow-ups.
Always produce: commit(s); a PR body (when a PR path is chosen); and a verification evidence block listing every check run with its exact command, exit code, and result. None of these is discretionary.
Recommend exactly one delivery path, state why, and state each option's consequence, then ask the user to confirm or override (this is the phase-boundary decision — wait for an explicit approval word before executing):
- merge locally — no remote review; choose when there is no remote or none is wanted.
- push branch and create a PR — recommended default when a remote exists and review is desired.
- push directly to origin/main — BLOCKED if the branch is protected or shared; only offer when the user explicitly directs it and the branch is unprotected. Surface this risk before proceeding.
- stop after local preparation — hand off without touching the remote.
For any path that mutates a shared or protected branch (push directly to origin/main), run and PASS all Hard Gates and the CI / verification evidence BEFORE executing the push — the gate runs before the irreversible action, never after.
Execute the selected path.
For PR or pushed-branch paths, check CI status after the delivery action via the acquisition ladder and block the final summary until checks are green. Failed CI routes back to remediation; you may not report CI as absent or skipped without a logged acquisition attempt.
Run the runtime summary gate (scripts/wannabuild-gate-check.sh <project_root> summary) and pass it, per Hard Gates.
Run cleanup: prune temporary worktrees; delete the topic branch locally and remotely once it is merged (retain it only if the delivery path left it unmerged); remove generated transient files; verify the final git status. Cleanup is mandatory after the delivery action.
Stop with a concise summary.

Output

Return a concise ship summary with delivery action, commit/PR/merge details, verification, cleanup performed, risks, and remaining work.