publish-plugins

publish-plugins is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vinta/hal-9000. It costs 26 tokens per session (885 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A release checklist for plugins and skills in a code repository. It identifies changed plugins, updates their version numbers, and checks that their manifest files match the files on disk.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when preparing changes under skills/ or plugins/ for release, deciding which plugin versions to update, and validating plugin manifests.
Why use it?
It prevents releases with missing version updates or inaccurate plugin descriptions. It also avoids bumping a plugin more than once for the same unreleased work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/vinta/hal-9000/publish-plugins
Any agent
npx skills add vinta/hal-9000 --skill publish-plugins
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vinta/hal-9000

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for publish-plugins

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/vinta/hal-9000/publish-plugins.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/vinta/hal-9000/publish-plugins)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/vinta/hal-9000/publish-plugins"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/vinta/hal-9000/publish-plugins.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 885 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 $0.00026 $0.00885
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00443
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00177
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00089

Measured 4d ago against content hash 547381960d8c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

publish-plugins 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 4d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/check_manifest_sync.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

.claude/skills/publish-plugins/SKILL.md · 87 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 87 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Publish Plugins

Prepare the repo's plugins for release: work out which ones changed, bump their versions, and check the manifests still describe what is on disk.

Each plugin owns its version in its own .claude-plugin/plugin.json, and the repo-root .claude-plugin/marketplace.json carries no version fields:

Plugin Manifest
hal-skills skills/.claude-plugin/plugin.json
hal-voice plugins/hal-voice/.claude-plugin/plugin.json
hal-session-auto-rename plugins/hal-session-auto-rename/.claude-plugin/plugin.json

1. Find the changed plugins

git diff --name-only origin/main...

skills/** belongs to hal-skills, plugins/<name>/** to that plugin. Only the plugins with changes are candidates for a bump.

2. Check what is already bumped

For each candidate, compare the working-tree version against origin/main:

git show origin/main:skills/.claude-plugin/plugin.json

If a plugin's version already differs from origin/main, it was bumped for unreleased work. Do not bump it again. Only bump a plugin whose version still matches origin/main. Check each candidate independently — a change under skills/ says nothing about whether hal-voice needs a bump.

3. Bump

  • Patch (0.2.0 -> 0.2.1): bug fixes, config changes, style cleanup
  • Minor (0.2.0 -> 0.3.0): new features, new hooks, new commands
  • Major (0.2.0 -> 1.0.0): breaking changes to hook behavior or config format

4. Check the manifests are in sync

python3 .claude/skills/publish-plugins/scripts/check_manifest_sync.py

Every plugin is described twice on purpose: once in its own .claude-plugin/plugin.json and once as an entry in .claude-plugin/marketplace.json. For each plugin the script checks that

Read the full file on GitHub · 87 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 4d ago First seen · 87 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 547381960d8c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

publish-plugins is a skill published in the GitHub repository vinta/hal-9000 (125 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 885 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. 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.

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