Publish Meteor agent skills

Prepare one catalog version for Codex, Claude Code, GitHub release assets, and direct skill installation. Read RELEASING.md before changing release state.

Choose the release stage

A GitHub repository does not need to be public for local working-tree tests. It must be public before testing installation through meteor/agent-skills@<tag> or submitting to public directories.

Catalog releases may be published independently for skill additions, corrections, evaluation improvements, packaging changes, or other catalog maintenance. For an independent release, follow the normal beta or stable flow without requiring a Meteor release audit, compatibility mapping, or Meteor artifact gates. Apply the coordinated rules below only when the catalog is intentionally paired with a Meteor release.

Preserve the release branch

For a beta or a catalog paired with a Meteor beta/RC, publish from the existing release PR branch. Record its repository, branch, PR and freshly fetched head SHA. Keep preparation, audits and post-publication records on that same branch/PR. Leave the PR open and the branch unmerged after publication; do not merge, close or delete either project's release branch/PR just to publish or finish cleanup. Publication approval is not merge approval. A merge requires a separate explicit user request, including during stable promotion.

Use the clean reviewed PR head as the beta candidate, not main or a synthetic PR merge commit. Green CI must cover that exact content; default-branch CI alone is insufficient. For stable publication, retain the reviewed, merged default-branch candidate gate, but ask for merge authorization if it is not already granted. For beta/RC, if the PR is already merged/closed or its branch is missing, ask which branch to use; do not silently create a replacement PR or rewrite history.

Coordinate with a Meteor release

When Meteor's release process requests a paired catalog, record the Meteor version, release commit, Agent Skills audit report, audited Agent Skills revision, publish commit, and exact catalog tag. Catalog semver is independent from Meteor semver. Do not derive one version from the other.

The documented catalog stages are public beta and stable, so a Meteor RC remains paired with an Agent Skills beta unless the repository adopts a separate RC policy.

Before preparing the catalog version:

1. Require a completed release audit against the final Meteor release commit and a clean Agent Skills candidate from the freshly fetched release PR branch for beta/RC, or default branch for stable. If an earlier audit used uncommitted documentation or a different Agent Skills revision, require a new incremental report and preserve the earlier committed record.
2. Confirm every authorized release-blocking finding is implemented and its affected manual cases pass.
3. Confirm CI is green on the candidate commit. Beta/RC PRs remain open; only stable publication requires the authorized merge into the default branch.
4. Select the catalog version explicitly. A user may approve a new beta snapshot with no distributable skill change when the purpose is to record tested compatibility with a Meteor candidate.

Load this publishing skill from the same clean checkout and revision selected for the release candidate. Record that commit as AGENT_SKILLS_CANDIDATE_SHA. If the selected remote branch advances before version preparation, report the drift and explicitly choose whether to keep the reviewed candidate or update it. Updating requires a new audit of every affected catalog claim and another validation pass.

Publish the Agent Skills tag only after the paired Meteor packages, tool builds, and bootstrap tarballs are live. A stable catalog must be based on a tagged beta that passed local checks, remote installation tests, and affected behavioral cases. If its guidance changed afterward, publish and test another beta before stable promotion.

After publication, record the exact Meteor-to-catalog mapping and live GitHub release URL in the release handoff. Request Meteor's dedicated Agent Skills changelog section only when this is a newly published paired tag and its remote installation tests pass; otherwise the section must be omitted, not filled with N/A. Independent catalog releases never create that Meteor changelog section.

Keep the Meteor changelog handoff concise and client-neutral. For a Meteor beta or RC, record the exact tested vX.Y.Z-beta.N release link and promote the generic npx skills@latest add 'meteor/agent-skills#vX.Y.Z-beta.N' installer. For an official Meteor release, use the same shape with the verified stable tag in both the link and command. Test the displayed npm command remotely and verify its installed files match the tag. Keep client-specific commands in this catalog's release notes. Link the changelog section to the official Meteor Agent Skills guide for further installation options.

On a repeated skills add, selected existing skill directories are replaced and their skills-lock.json refs are updated; unselected installed skills remain in place.

Prepare the version

Inspect the worktree first and preserve unrelated changes. Set the same global version in both plugin manifests with:

pnpm release:bump 1.0.0-beta.1

Use a stable version only after its beta has passed local and tagged remote installation tests:

pnpm release:bump 1.0.0

Do not add versions to package.json or individual SKILL.md files. The repository tag identifies the complete catalog snapshot.

Verify

Run the checks in RELEASING.md. The tag workflow automatically rejects a tag that does not match both manifests.

Test from the working tree before making the repository public. After pushing a beta tag, repeat the Codex, Claude Code, and individual-skill installations from that exact tag.

For branch-policy changes, run the affected release acceptance cases in read-only fresh conversations.

Publish

Treat preparation and publication as separate operations.

• A request to prepare a release authorizes local version changes and checks.
• A request to publish a release authorizes the requested commit, tag, push, and GitHub release flow on the selected branch, not a PR merge or closure.
• Marketplace submissions require the publisher account, approved listing details, and explicit authorization for that submission.

When publication is authorized, commit the verified preparation on the selected branch and resolve it as AGENT_SKILLS_PUBLISH_SHA. Show the diff from $AGENT_SKILLS_CANDIDATE_SHA and require it to contain only the approved maintenance and deterministic release preparation. Run the release checks from that clean exact commit, tag that commit with the matching v prefix, and push the tag. Do not load the publishing skill from one revision and tag another.

For beta/RC, push preparation to the existing PR and confirm its head SHA and CI before tagging. Add verified installation links and results to that same PR branch after publication. These documentation commits do not move the published tag.

The GitHub workflow validates the version again, builds skill ZIPs, and creates the GitHub release. Beta tags are marked as prereleases. Confirm the release succeeds before testing remote installation.

Do not reuse or move a published tag. Prepare a new beta number or patch version when a tagged release needs a correction.