diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 33fc1b2..dcd7cdd 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ on:
       - 'bun.lockb'
       - 'tsconfig*.json'
       - '.github/workflows/ci.yml'
+      - 'scripts/**'
+      - '.claude/skills/**/scripts/**'
 
 jobs:
   lint:
@@ -26,6 +28,55 @@ jobs:
       - run: bun install
       - run: bun run lint
 
+  shellcheck:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    defaults:
+      run:
+        shell: bash
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
+      - name: Install shellcheck v0.10.0
+        run: |
+          set -euo pipefail
+          url="https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck/releases/download/v0.10.0/shellcheck-v0.10.0.linux.x86_64.tar.xz"
+          sha256="6c881ab0698e4e6ea235245f22832860544f17ba386442fe7e9d629f8cbedf87"
+          curl -sSL --fail --retry 3 --retry-all-errors "$url" -o "$RUNNER_TEMP/shellcheck.tar.xz"
+          echo "$sha256  $RUNNER_TEMP/shellcheck.tar.xz" | sha256sum -c -
+          tar -xJf "$RUNNER_TEMP/shellcheck.tar.xz" -C "$RUNNER_TEMP"
+          echo "$RUNNER_TEMP/shellcheck-v0.10.0" >> "$GITHUB_PATH"
+      - name: Run shellcheck
+        run: |
+          set -euo pipefail
+          # severity=warning: `error` is a no-op gate (0 findings against this
+          # tree, before and after); `warning` caught the real issues (2 SC2034
+          # in scripts/ship.sh, both fixed here) without the noise of `style`
+          # (5 on the current tree — all SC1091/SC2016/SC2317, none real
+          # defects). No --enable=all: SC2310/SC2311 fire zero times here, so
+          # enabling `all` would only add tens of info and hundreds of style
+          # findings (37 and 614 when this was written) for no signal on the
+          # case it was proposed for.
+          shopt -s nullglob globstar
+
+          script_files=(scripts/**/*.sh)
+          if [ "${#script_files[@]}" -eq 0 ]; then
+            echo "::error::scripts/**/*.sh matched no files"
+            exit 1
+          fi
+
+          skill_files=(.claude/skills/**/scripts/**/*.sh)
+          if [ "${#skill_files[@]}" -eq 0 ]; then
+            echo "::error::.claude/skills/**/scripts/**/*.sh matched no files"
+            exit 1
+          fi
+
+          # shellcheck is silent when clean, so without this the log records no
+          # evidence of WHAT was checked. It also surfaces a partial-coverage
+          # regression that leaves both groups non-empty — the case the guards
+          # above cannot see.
+          echo "shellcheck: ${#script_files[@]} in scripts/, ${#skill_files[@]} in .claude/skills/"
+
+          shellcheck --severity=warning "${script_files[@]}" "${skill_files[@]}"
+
   unit-tests:
     strategy:
       matrix:
diff --git a/scripts/ship.sh b/scripts/ship.sh
index 7b4ae6a..1355cf1 100755
--- a/scripts/ship.sh
+++ b/scripts/ship.sh
@@ -38,9 +38,9 @@ promote_issues() {
 # GraphQL, which is eventually consistent — mergeCommit is briefly null. Retry
 # rather than hard-stop: past this point a bail leaves the release unpublished.
 resolve_merge_sha() {
-    local pr="$1" attempt
+    local pr="$1" _
     MERGE_SHA=""
-    for attempt in $(seq 1 5); do
+    for _ in $(seq 1 5); do
         MERGE_SHA=$(gh pr view "$pr" --json mergeCommit --jq '.mergeCommit.oid // empty' 2>/dev/null || true)
         [ -n "$MERGE_SHA" ] && [ "$MERGE_SHA" != "null" ] && return 0
         sleep 3
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ resolve_merge_sha() {
 tag_and_publish() {
     local sha="$1" version="$2"
     local tag="v$version"
-    local existing run attempt
+    local existing run _
 
     # The merge commit is created server-side — fetch before tagging it.
     git fetch origin main --quiet || {
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ tag_and_publish() {
     # registration lag, then fail loudly rather than exiting 0 on a guess.
     info "Waiting for publish workflow..."
     run=""
-    for attempt in $(seq 1 30); do
+    for _ in $(seq 1 30); do
         run=$(gh run list --workflow publish.yml --commit "$sha" --limit 1 --json databaseId --jq '.[0].databaseId // empty' 2>/dev/null || true)
         [ -n "$run" ] && break
         sleep 10