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Matt Sears

Creator2026–present

Shipyard

An autonomous engineering loop — a Claude Code plugin that finds, refines, and ships work from a GitHub backlog without per-step human approval.

  • Claude Code
  • Bash
  • GitHub Actions
  • jq
  • gh CLI

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Shipyard — illustrated flow of /audit and feedback sources feeding an issue backlog, the orchestrator running /do-work, and issue workers shipping containers onto cargo ships

Shipyard is an experimental Claude Code plugin that runs an autonomous engineering loop. It finds work (deep audits across UX, performance, security, a11y, SEO, privacy, dev experience, tech debt, and more — each finding becomes a GitHub issue), refines raw user feedback into actionable tickets, and burns down the backlog with a rolling pool of parallel workers in isolated git worktrees.

The orchestrator dispatches up to --concurrency workers at once, opens PRs that close their assigned issues, arms auto-merge, and gracefully handles failing CI, red main, and PR pileups via specialized diversion workers.

Shipyard is built with shipyard — the majority of merged PRs in the repo were opened by /do-work workers, fixed up through CI failures, and merged without a human touching the keyboard between issue triage and PR review. This portfolio site is also built with it.

Shipyard — Matt Sears