publish

Publish Command

You are helping publish a Claude Code plugin to the Claude Market marketplace.

Overview

This command validates changed plugins, generates the marketplace manifest, creates a semantic commit, and opens a pull request to the marketplace repository.

Step 1: Identify Changed Plugins

Check the current branch with git branch --show-current.

If on main branch:

• Run git status --porcelain to find uncommitted/staged changes
• Parse the output to identify which plugins have been modified

If on a different branch:

• Run git diff main --name-only to find all changed files compared to main
• Parse the output to identify which plugins have been modified

Look for paths matching {plugin-name}/.claude-plugin/plugin.json or {plugin-name}/*.

Extract the unique plugin names from the changed paths.

If no plugin changes are detected, inform the user and exit.

Step 2: Branch Management

Check the current branch (already checked in Step 1).

If on main branch:

• Attempt to get GitHub username with git config user.github || git config user.name
• Create branch name in format: {github-user}/{plugin-affected}/{very-short-description}
  • Use kebab-case for all parts
  • Keep description to 3-4 words max
  • Example: danielkov/browser-tools/add-chromium-mcp
• Run git checkout -b {branch-name} to create and switch to new branch
• Note: Do not stage or commit yet - changes will be committed after validation passes

If on a different branch (not main):

• Continue with the existing branch
• Note: Do not stage or commit yet - changes will be committed after validation passes

Step 3: Validate Changed Plugins in Parallel

For each changed plugin identified in Step 1, spawn a sub-agent using the Task tool to validate the plugin.

Use a single message with multiple Task tool calls to validate all plugins simultaneously:

For each plugin, spawn an agent with:
- subagent_type: "general-purpose"
- model: "haiku" (for speed)
- description: "Validate {plugin-name}"
- prompt: "Run the command `/plugin-builder:validate {plugin-name} --minimal` and return ONLY the exit code and output. The output should start with either '0' (success) or '1' (failure) followed by any error details."