Ship Flow
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Ship Flow is a personal workflow concept for getting work out the door efficiently when using AI agents, described as the overarching process that governs how a practitioner moves from task conception to shipped output. It is a component of the broader Ask-Plan-Audit-Build-Verify Workflow.
Core Description
Ship Flow is characterized as "basically my process of getting work out the door" and serves as the practical, end-to-end framework for shipping work with agent assistance. To Give an Agent a Workspace, 29:20
Key Practices
Atomic PRs as a Structural Principle
A central advocacy within the Ship Flow approach is the use of highly atomic pull requests — splitting work into the smallest coherent change rather than bundling large or medium-sized changes together. The speaker notes that "our PRs are now like very atomic" as a direct consequence of optimizing for agent-assisted shipping. To Give an Agent a Workspace, 1:17:55
This preference for atomic PRs reflects a broader principle in agent engineering: smaller, well-scoped units of work are more tractable for agents to execute correctly and easier for humans to audit and verify — aligning with the audit and verify stages of the Ask-Plan-Audit-Build-Verify Workflow that Ship Flow is part of.
Points of Disagreement
No dissenting views on Ship Flow are represented in the current evidence base.