submit

A command that packages a WordPress plugin, checks its files and documentation, and uploads it to WordPress.org for review.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to submit a new plugin or reupload a pending submission, with options for dry runs and selected checks.
Why use it?
It removes the need to perform the packaging, readme validation, and official Plugin Check steps separately before submission.

Command

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/automattic/pressship/submit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Automattic/pressship
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 310 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00000 $0.00310
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00155
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00062
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00031

Measured 2d ago against content hash 49b5859a9fea, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

submit scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

website/docs/commands/submit.md · 41 lines

What it actually says

Submit

pressship submit ./my-plugin

submit is the explicit WordPress.org review upload flow. It is equivalent to publish --submit.

It will:

  1. discover the plugin main file;
  2. parse WordPress plugin headers;
  3. parse and validate readme.txt;
  4. validate readme.txt with WordPress.org;
  5. build a WordPress-installable zip;
  6. stage package contents for Plugin Check;
  7. run the official WordPress.org Plugin Check;
  8. ask for confirmation when blocking findings are reported;
  9. upload the zip to WordPress.org.

If WordPress.org already has a pending submission matching the plugin slug or name, Pressship uses the reupload form instead of the new-plugin form.

Options

pressship submit ./my-plugin --dry-run
pressship submit ./my-plugin --no-verify
pressship submit ./my-plugin --skip-plugin-check
pressship submit ./my-plugin --skip-readme-validator
pressship submit ./my-plugin --wp-path /path/to/wordpress
pressship submit ./my-plugin --ignore "assets/**/*.mp4"
pressship submit ./my-plugin --output-dir ./build
pressship submit ./my-plugin --yes

Use --no-verify only when you intentionally want to skip both readme validation and Plugin Check before uploading. Use --skip-plugin-check when you only want to bypass Plugin Check.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 41 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 49b5859a9fea

Subscribe to this mod's changes

submit is a command published in the GitHub repository Automattic/pressship (51 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 310 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.