| name | publish |
| description | Refactor the changes made in this session, ship them as a PR with auto-merge, then monitor CI and auto-fix failures until merged. Scopes itself to the repos this session actually worked in. |
| user-invocable | true |
| allowed-tools | Read, Edit, Write, Bash, Glob, Grep, Agent, WebFetch |
Publish
Refactor the changes made in this session, ship them as a PR
with auto-merge, then watch CI until the PR merges (or a
hard-stop is reached). Be thorough on refactoring, efficient
on shipping.
Input: "$ARGUMENTS"
The input (everything between the quotes above — it may be
empty) optionally describes what was done, used for the commit
message and PR description, and/or names the repo(s) to
publish.
Everything here is plain git / gh run through Bash. There
are no helper scripts: when a command's output is ambiguous or
a step fails, read the actual error and adapt — do not retry a
canned pipeline.
Phase 0 — Scope (which repos)
Publishing too much is the worst failure mode of this skill.
Scope comes from session context only — never from scanning
the filesystem.
Build the candidate list in priority order:
- Repos explicitly named in the input.
- Repos containing files this session created or edited
(look back at the conversation, not at the disk).
- The repo containing the current working directory.
- Only if cwd is not itself a repo but a multi-repo workspace
(a directory of symlinks that each resolve to a git repo —
e.g. a thurbox symlink workspace): the member repos.
Hard rules:
- Never enumerate repos beyond the list above. No scanning
~, no "all accessible directories", no sibling worktrees,
no find/Glob sweeps for .git.
- A candidate qualifies only if it is on a feature branch
(not the default branch) and has uncommitted changes or
commits ahead of
origin/<default>.
- A qualifying repo whose changes this session did not
make (pre-existing dirt, someone else's branch) is not
published. List it under "skipped" in the final output so
the user can decide.
Exception: the cwd repo when the user invoked
/publish
with no other context — they are standing in it, publish it.
- Zero qualifying repos → STOP: "Nothing to publish."
State the final scope in one line ("Publishing: ;
skipped: <repos + reason>") before doing any work, then run
Phases 1–4 for each scoped repo sequentially.
Phase 1 — Sync
Per repo, before touching code:
git fetch origin.- Determine the default branch (e.g.
git symbolic-ref --short refs/remotes/origin/HEAD; if
unset, ask gh repo view — pick whichever works, don't
parse git remote show output).
- If on the default branch, STOP for this repo: "Create a
feature branch first."
- Rebase onto
origin/<default>. On conflict: abort the
rebase, record the conflicting files, skip this repo's
remaining phases, continue with the next repo.
Phase 2 — Refactor (2 passes)
Review only the changes being shipped: the diff against
origin/<default> plus uncommitted changes. Establish the
file list from that diff.
Pass 1 — Structure & Clean Code
Re-read the identified files from disk, then:
- Clean Code: intention-revealing names, small
single-responsibility functions, DRY, remove dead code and
unused imports, replace magic values with constants.
- KISS: straightforward logic, early returns over
nesting, no premature abstractions.
- Readability: match project formatting, comments only
for non-obvious "why".
Apply fixes, then summarize.
Pass 2 — Coherence & Consistency
Re-read the same files fresh, then:
- Cross-file coherence: naming, patterns, abstractions
consistent with each other and the project.
- API consistency: signatures, return types, error
handling coherent between callers and callees.
- Logic review: contradictions, redundant conditions,
unreachable branches, mismatched assumptions.
Apply fixes, then summarize. These summaries are intermediate
— continue straight into Phase 3.
Phase 3 — Ship
Execute efficiently; do not deliberate.
- Stage deliberately. Review
git status and stage the
files that belong to this work — never git add -A
blindly. Leave out secrets and junk (.env, credentials,
keys, large binaries, scratch files).
- Commit. If
HEAD is already on the remote (or shared
with the default branch), create a new conventional commit;
if the tip commit is local-only, amend it. Use the input
to inform the message; infer type and scope from the diff.
Skip if nothing to commit.
- Re-sync.
git fetch origin and rebase again to pick up
anything that landed meanwhile (same conflict handling as
Phase 1).
- Push.
git push --force-with-lease origin HEAD.
- PR. If
gh pr view finds an open PR, reuse it.
Otherwise gh pr create — title under 70 chars, body with
## Summary bullets and a ## Test plan.
- Auto-merge.
gh pr merge --auto --rebase. If the repo
doesn't allow it, note that and move on — do not merge
without auto-merge unless the user asked.
Record the PR URL for Phase 4.
Phase 4 — Monitor & validate
Watch the PR until it merges or hits a hard stop. Adapt to the
repo: first check whether it has CI checks
(gh pr checks) and whether auto-merge actually got enabled
(gh pr view --json autoMergeRequest). No checks and no
auto-merge → nothing to monitor, go to Final Output.
Monitor loop — up to ~10 rounds, sleeping 30s at first and
backing off toward 2 minutes between polls. Each round, check
PR state and checks via gh pr view / gh pr checks:
- Merged → validate (below), then next repo.
- Closed without merging → record and stop this repo.
- Merge conflict → record "rebase manually" and stop this repo.
- A check failed → fix (below).
- Otherwise → keep waiting.
Fixing a failed check — at most 3 fix attempts per repo,
then record "manual intervention required" and stop this repo.
Pull the failing job's log (gh run view <id> --log-failed),
diagnose the root cause from the actual error — don't guess
from the check name. Apply the fix, commit
(fix: resolve CI failure in <check>), rebase, push, and
resume monitoring from a fresh 30s wait.
Validate after merge — look for a deployment workflow on
the default branch (gh run list --branch <default>). If one
is running, poll briefly (a few rounds) until it concludes;
if none exists, skip — not every repo deploys.
Final Output
One block per repo (and only now — nothing earlier is a
terminal summary):
- Refactor: Pass 1 + Pass 2 changes (counts)
- Commit: new or amended, with message
- PR: URL
- CI: passed / fixed N times / no checks / failed
- Merge: confirmed / pending / conflict
- Deploy: status / no deployment detected
If any repos were skipped in Phase 0, list them with the
reason.
