Worker Preamble | Agent Skills Atlas

About this skill

Shared worktree-discipline + dispatch-contract preamble for every /shipyard:do-work worker mode (issue-work, fix-checks-only, fix-rebase, fix-main-ci, fix-failing-prs-batch, investigate). Dispatch prompts in commands/do-work.md reference this skill instead of inlining the same preamble per mode — one source of truth for worktree isolation rules, return-contract scaffolding, and the --label shipyard requirement. This thin core keeps the universally-needed hot rules; rarely-hit reference material lives in on-demand fragments alongside this file. Closes 107, split into core + fragments by 617.

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worker-preamble

Original description

Shared worktree-discipline + dispatch-contract preamble for every `/shipyard:do-work` worker mode (issue-work, fix-checks-only, fix-rebase, fix-main-ci, fix-failing-prs-batch, investigate). Dispatch prompts in `commands/do-work.md` reference this skill instead of inlining the same preamble per mode — one source of truth for worktree isolation rules, return-contract scaffolding, and the `--label shipyard` requirement. This thin core keeps the universally-needed hot rules; rarely-hit reference material lives in on-demand fragments alongside this file. Closes [#107](https://github.com/mattsears18/shipyard/issues/107), split into core + fragments by [#617](https://github.com/mattsears18/shipyard/issues/617).

About this listing

Category: General
Reported license: MIT
Listing language (estimated): English
Review status: Not individually reviewed
Agent compatibility: Atlas installation supports Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. Skill-specific dependencies and features are checked during setup.