vc:publish
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Push agent harness improvements from the current development repo to the remote kit repository. Use when you want to publish local harness changes back to the shared kit. Diffs managed files, shows what changed, bumps version, and pushes.
- Commits and pushes
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
4 rules. About 0 are common, 3 are distinctive, and 1 is very specific to this project.
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Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
≈3
Distinctive · estimate
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
1
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Distinctive: line 50
Never modify the kit repo without user approval
- Very specific: line 51
Never use --no-verify to skip hooks
- Distinctive: line 52
Never widen scope beyond the resolved file sets
- Distinctive: line 53
Never push if leak detection fails (Step 8)
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 308,232 skill files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
vc-publish
Push harness improvements from the current development repo to the remote kit repository. This is the maintainer counterpart to vc-update.
vc-update= user pulls latest harness INTO their project FROM the remotevc-publish= maintainer pushes improvements FROM the dev repo TO the remote
Codex Mirror Note
The .codex/agents/*.toml files are generated from .claude/agents/*.md by the build step build-codex-toml.mjs. Before publishing agent source changes, run:
node .claude/skills/vc-audit-vc/scripts/build-codex-toml.mjsvalidate-agent-parity.mjs --strict rejects any hand-edited TOML — all TOML must be generated.
Prerequisites
- Local checkout of the kit repo
- Git push access to the remote
v3 (D3):
.vc-publish-configis no longer a prerequisite. v3 diffs against the last git tag in the upstream kit repo; the legacykitRepoPathconfig is preserved as a fallback for v2.x consumers.
Workflow (11 steps, see references/vc-publish.md for full contract)
- Load config — read
.vc-publish-config(v2.x) or prompt for kit repo path (v3). Verify worktree is clean. - Read manifest — extract
versionfromvc-manifest.jsonin the kit repo. - Resolve both file sets — run the kit repo's
resolve-manifest.mjs --jsonagainst both roots. ExtractfilesandkitOnly. - Compute diff — additions, removals, modifications,
strip(CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md always flagged). - Print summary — table of
[modified]/[new]/[removed]/[strip]/[unchanged]. - STOP — confirm publish — show the summary, ask the user to confirm or modify. Never auto-publish.
- Apply changes — copy files from dev to kit repo, preserving executable bits on
.cjshooks. Runnpm installinvc-mcp-management/scripts/if changed. - Leak detection — grep for vendor-stack references (
flowser|tRPC|Prisma|Supabase|CloakBrowser|OpenClawin v2.x; broader set in v3) against the dev repo. Zero matches expected for a portable kit. - Commit + tag —
git -C <kitRepoPath> add -A, thencommit -m "publish v<version>", thentag v<version>. Never use--no-verify. - Push —
git -C <kitRepoPath> push origin main --tags. - Print final summary — committed hash, tag, list of pushed files.
Strict Rules
- STOP at Step 6 — never auto-publish, never skip the confirmation
- Never modify the kit repo without user approval
- Never use
--no-verifyto skip hooks - Never widen scope beyond the resolved file sets
- Never push if leak detection fails (Step 8)
End every response with the subagent status block:
**Status:** DONE | DONE_WITH_CONCERNS | BLOCKED | NEEDS_CONTEXT
**Summary:** [1-2 sentence summary]
**Files modified:** [comma-separated list]
**Concerns/Blockers:** [if applicable]Other versions1 project uses a version of this.
Word for word · 0
None found.
Edited · 0
None found.
Wrote their own version · 1
- opencue/cuecards★ 6same name
How matches are found. Word for word: the exact same text. Edited: shares passages with this file (“99% same” means 99% of its five-word phrases also appear here; 10% or more counts). Their own version: similar meaning, or, weakest, the same name. We can’t tell which project had it first. Projects are counted among the 200 most-starred candidates, and mentions are links to the repository we found, up to 50 per site, so both counts are a floor.
In this repository51 other files it gives its agents.
- AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- CLAUDE.mdCLAUDE.md
- vc:kitSkill
- vc:auditSkill
- vc:autoresearchSkill
- vc:chrome-devtoolsSkill
- vc:context-engineeringSkill
- vc:debugSkill
- vc:docs-seekerSkill
- vc:generate-contextSkill
- vc:generate-planSkill
- vc:mcp-managementSkill
- vc:merge-worktreeSkill
- vc:previewSkill
- vc:problem-solvingSkill
- vc:publishSkill
- vc:repomixSkill
- vc:scoutSkill
- vc:securitySkill
- vc:sequential-thinkingSkill
- vc:setupSkill
- vc:stress-testSkill
- vc:tech-graphSkill
- vc:updateSkill
- vc:watzupSkill
- vc:web-testingSkill
- vc:xiaSkill
- vc:kitSkill
- vc:auditSkill
- vc:autoresearchSkill
- vc:chrome-devtoolsSkill
- vc:context-engineeringSkill
- vc:debugSkill
- vc:docs-seekerSkill
- vc:generate-contextSkill
- vc:generate-planSkill
- vc:mcp-managementSkill
- vc:merge-worktreeSkill
- vc:previewSkill
- vc:problem-solvingSkill
- vc:repomixSkill
- vc:scoutSkill
- vc:securitySkill
- vc:sequential-thinkingSkill
- vc:setupSkill
- vc:stress-testSkill
- vc:tech-graphSkill
- vc:updateSkill
- vc:watzupSkill
- vc:web-testingSkill
- vc:xiaSkill
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