astro-preview-release

name	astro-preview-release
description	Trigger and monitor a preview release for an Astro pull request. Use this skill whenever the user wants to publish a preview/canary build of an Astro PR so that reporters or users can test a fix before it merges — including phrases like "create a preview release", "add the preview label", "let someone test this PR", "publish a canary for this fix", or "how do I get a preview package for this PR". Specific to the withastro/astro monorepo and pkg.pr.new.
license	BSD-3-Clause
metadata	{"author":"matthewp","version":"1.0"}

Astro PR Preview Release

Preview releases let users install and test a PR's changes before it merges, using pkg.pr.new.

How to trigger

Add the pr preview label to the PR:

gh pr edit <PR_NUMBER> --repo withastro/astro --add-label "pr preview"

This kicks off a "Publish preview release" GitHub Actions job.

Monitoring

Poll until the job completes:

gh pr checks <PR_NUMBER> --repo withastro/astro | grep -i "preview"

The job typically completes within a few minutes. Once it shows pass, a pkg-pr-new bot will post a comment on the PR with install commands.

Reading the comment

The bot comment contains per-package install commands, for example:

npm i https://pkg.pr.new/astro@<PR_NUMBER>
npm i https://pkg.pr.new/@astrojs/cloudflare@<PR_NUMBER>
npm i https://pkg.pr.new/@astrojs/node@<PR_NUMBER>

Share the relevant package command(s) with the issue reporter so they can test the fix directly.

Which package to share

Point the reporter to the package(s) that contain the fix:

• Fix in packages/astro/ → share astro@<PR_NUMBER>
• Fix in packages/integrations/node/ → share @astrojs/node@<PR_NUMBER>
• Fix in packages/integrations/cloudflare/ → share @astrojs/cloudflare@<PR_NUMBER>
• Fix touches multiple packages → share all relevant ones

Posting to the issue

After getting the install command, post a comment on the original issue so the reporter can try it:

gh issue comment <ISSUE_NUMBER> --repo withastro/astro --body "A preview build is available for testing:

\`\`\`
npm i https://pkg.pr.new/astro@<PR_NUMBER>
\`\`\`

Please let us know if this resolves the issue."