# Cw Land

Use when turning verified Codewhale work into commits on main and pushing them, or...

- Repository: https://github.com/codewhale-hq/Codewhale (41164 stars)
- Category: Git and review
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-11-01
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add codewhale-hq/Codewhale --skill cw-land -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add codewhale-hq/Codewhale --skill cw-land -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add codewhale-hq/Codewhale --skill cw-land -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add codewhale-hq/Codewhale --skill cw-land -g -a gemini-cli -y`

## Description

Use when turning verified Codewhale work into commits on main and pushing them, or merging a contributor PR: staging only your paths, the pre-push drift checks, preserving contributor credit, and honoring the gate artifact before merging.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# cw-land

Verified work still has to land without stepping on other writers, losing
contributor credit, or merging past a gate that has not actually passed. This
stage is about the boundary between "it works" and "it is in `main`", and about
which of those steps you are allowed to take.

Stage 5 of the loop: [cw-orient](../cw-orient/SKILL.md) →
[cw-slice](../cw-slice/SKILL.md) → [cw-gates](../cw-gates/SKILL.md) →
[cw-dogfood](../cw-dogfood/SKILL.md) → **land** →
[cw-handoff](../cw-handoff/SKILL.md).

## When to use

- The change is verified and needs to become a commit on `main`.
- You are landing someone else's PR, harvesting a contributor's work, or
  resolving a conflict caused by `main` moving.
- You are about to merge something behind a required gate.

## Workflow

1. **Land on the canonical checkout's `main`.** `AGENTS.md` owns this: no
   maintainer PR branches, worktrees, nested clones or integration lanes.
   Several agents share the checkout, so partition by file, check
   `git status` before staging, stage only your paths (never `git add -A`),
   and retry a commit that fails on `index.lock`. Push verified `main`
   directly. A push is not a CI request: hosted CI runs once, at the final
   release step (`docs/RELEASE_CHECKLIST.md`), and routine slice commits carry
   `[skip ci]`. PRs are for contributors.

2. **Commit narrow and build-green.** One coherent change per commit; the tree
   builds at every commit. Put the real verification in the message, actual
   pass/fail counts, not "tests pass".

The rest: https://github.com/codewhale-hq/Codewhale/blob/HEAD/docs/skills/cw-land/SKILL.md