Problem
What problem this solves
Project upkeep spreads across bugs, dependencies, docs, checks, audits, migrations, fixes, verification, and shipping, so maintenance can stall as a list of disconnected commands.
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Operate & Ship
Skill Detail
sg-maintain
Run project maintenance from triage through delegated fixes, verification, and ship routing.
A master maintenance lifecycle skill for reviewing project health, creating or continuing specs when needed, delegating remediation, verifying results, and routing ship or deploy.
Outcome
What changes when it works
You get a master maintenance run that triages, specs when needed, delegates bounded work, verifies, and routes ship or deploy.
Why It Matters
What this changes for a solo founder
This skill is the recurring maintenance pilot. It turns drift into handled work instead of another backlog report.
When to use it
- When a project has not had a maintenance pass recently
- When you want bugs, dependencies, docs, checks, audits, fixes, verification, and shipping handled together
- When you need a security-oriented maintenance route without creating a separate security audit skill
What you give it
- A ShipGlows-compatible project
- Optional mode such as quick, full, security, deps, docs, audits, global, or no-ship
- Any explicit maintenance concern you want prioritized
What you get back
- A lifecycle maintenance result: completed, verified, shipped, ship-ready, or blocked
- Spec/readiness routing when maintenance is non-trivial
- Delegated execution through owner skills such as sg-bug, sg-technical, sg-docs, sg-check, sg-audit, sg-fix, sg-build, sg-deploy, or sg-ship
- Clear proof gaps and ship blockers when evidence is partial
Typical examples
- /sg-maintain
- /sg-maintain quick
- /sg-maintain full
- /sg-maintain security
- /sg-maintain no-ship
- /sg-maintain global
Limits
- It orchestrates maintenance skills; it does not replace sg-technical, sg-docs, sg-audit, sg-check, sg-fix, sg-build, sg-deploy, or sg-ship
- It executes through owner skills and bounded subagents instead of duplicating their internals
- It does not ship when checks, verification, deployment proof, high-risk bugs, or security gates are unresolved
Arguments
Some arguments change the workflow, not just the wording.
These are the argument switches documented for this skill. For the general rule behind skill arguments, read the skill modes tutorial.
no argument / full
Runs the master maintenance lifecycle for the current project.
Consequence
Carries maintenance through spec/readiness when needed, delegated execution, verification, and ship/deploy routing.
quick
Runs read-only maintenance triage for the current project.
Consequence
Keeps the old report-only behavior when you explicitly want no writes.
security
Runs the security maintenance lifecycle for bug risk, dependency vulnerabilities, secret/config hygiene, auth and permission surfaces, remediation gates, verification, and ship routing.
Consequence
Uses sg-technical deps and sg-technical audit without inventing a separate security audit.
deps / docs / audits
Focuses the maintenance lifecycle on one owner lane.
Consequence
Still verifies and routes ship when the lane changes the project.
no-ship
Runs through verification but stops before sg-ship or sg-deploy.
Consequence
Returns a ship-ready or blocked report instead of releasing.
global
Builds a workspace maintenance dashboard from the project registry.
Consequence
Asks which projects to inspect before doing heavier work.
Related Skills
See the rest of the loop around this move.
Build & Fix
sg-bug
Run a bug from report to dossier, fix, retest, verification, and ship risk without skipping gates.
A professional bug loop executor that reads bug state and continues through the right ShipGlows owner skills when safe.
Open skill page Audit & Improve
sg-technical
Use one explicit technical mode for code risk, dependencies, performance, or a breaking migration.
A unified technical entrypoint with four bounded modes and evidence limits that match the work.
Open skill page Operate & Ship
sg-docs
Create or repair documentation so the repo stays navigable for both humans and agents.
A documentation skill for maintaining docs, metadata, and governance-layout compliance across project surfaces.
Open skill page Operate & Ship
sg-check
Run the standard technical checks and fix the obvious issues before you pretend the work is done.
A practical quality gate for typecheck, lint, build, and related technical validation in the current project.
Open skill page Audit & Improve
sg-audit
Run a broad project audit when you need a high-level map of what is weak before you decide what to fix.
The top-level audit skill scans across multiple quality domains so you can see where the real risk or drift sits.
Open skill page Operate & Ship
sg-tasks
Keep the task list coherent after work moves, instead of letting tracking fall behind reality.
A task-management skill for updating `TASKS.md`, reflecting progress, and capturing the next sensible steps.
Open skill page Build & Fix
sg-fix
Triage a bug fast, decide whether it is safe to patch now, and route it correctly.
The bug-first entrypoint for ShipGlows when the work starts from broken behavior instead of a new feature request.
Open skill page Build & Fix
sg-build
Run non-trivial work from story to spec, build, verification, closeout, and ship without making the user drive every gate.
The master user-facing lifecycle orchestrator for carrying a story, bug, or goal through ShipGlows's spec, readiness, implementation, verification, onboarding consideration, documentation, closure, and shipping gates.
Open skill page Operate & Ship
sg-deploy
Run the whole release confidence loop instead of stitching checks, ship, prod, browser proof, and verification by hand.
A release orchestration skill for moving work through technical checks, bounded shipping, deployment readiness, post-deploy evidence, final verification, and optional changelog routing.
Open skill page Operate & Ship
sg-ship
Commit and push quickly when the work is actually ready, instead of stretching closure into another vague step.
A shipping skill for moving finished work through the final commit-and-push path and recording the shipping result when a chantier spec is in scope.
Open skill pageGo Deeper
This public page explains the move. The repository explains the execution contract.
Use the public catalog for education and workflow selection. Move to the docs and GitHub when you want the operator-grade execution details behind the skill system.