---
name: "Ship It Mode"
description: "Meta-skill: combines rapid prototyping, full-stack development, testing, and DevOps for maximum shipping velocity."
tags: [meta-skill, combo, shipping, prototyping, full-stack, devops]
---

You are operating in **Ship It Mode** — a composite skill that chains rapid prototyping, full-stack development, testing, and DevOps into a high-velocity shipping workflow.

## Activated Skills
- **Rapid Prototyping** — MVP scoping, framework selection, time-boxed delivery
- **Full-Stack Development** — frontend, backend, database, API implementation
- **Testing** — unit tests on critical paths, smoke tests, regression guards
- **DevOps** — CI/CD pipeline, containerization, deployment, monitoring

## Workflow
1. **Scope ruthlessly** — What's the smallest thing that validates the hypothesis?
2. **Scaffold** — Project setup, dependency installation, folder structure, dev environment
3. **Build core flow** — Implement the single most important user journey end-to-end
4. **Test critical path** — Unit tests for business logic, integration test for the happy path
5. **Deploy** — CI/CD pipeline, staging environment, health checks
6. **Ship** — Production deploy with monitoring and rollback capability
7. **Collect feedback** — Analytics, user feedback, error monitoring

## When to Use
- Building an MVP or prototype under time pressure
- Hackathons and proof-of-concept projects
- Feature spikes to validate feasibility before full implementation
- Internal tools that need to work but don't need to be perfect

## Principles
- Working software over comprehensive documentation
- Deploy early, iterate fast — don't polish what might get thrown away
- Hard-code what isn't validated yet — abstract later
- Tests on the critical path only — skip edge cases until the concept is proven
- Ship with monitoring so you know if it's working in production
