butler-deploy

butler-deploy is a skill for Claude Code from Yesterday-AI/skills. It costs 57 tokens per session (1,169 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Instructions for publishing HTML5 games—games that run in a web browser—to itch.io using the butler command-line program.

In plain words
What is it for?
Installing and logging into butler, creating an itch.io project, uploading builds such as dist/, updating channels, and adding deployment to CI.
Why use it?
It explains the setup and upload steps needed to put a browser game online or update an existing build.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the systems-operations plugin — 3 skills shipped together

Good fit Installing and logging into butler, creating an itch.io project, uploading builds such as dist/, updating channels, and adding deployment to CI.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yesterday-ai/skills/butler-deploy
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.

Any agent
npx skills add Yesterday-AI/skills --skill butler-deploy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Yesterday-AI/skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install systems-operations, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills.

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Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,169 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00057 $0.01169
Opus 5.5 $0.00023 $0.00468
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00234
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00117

Measured 2mo ago against content hash c7186342d91b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

butler-deploy scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 2mo 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -L -o butler.zip https://broth.itch.ovh/butler/linux-amd64/LATEST/archive/default
plugins/systems-operations/skills/butler-deploy/SKILL.md · 137 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 137 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Butler Deploy

Push HTML5 game builds to itch.io with the butler CLI. Butler does delta uploads (only changed files after the first push) and the game is live the moment the push completes.

When to use

  • First-time publish of a web build to itch.io
  • Updating an existing itch.io page with a new build
  • Wiring an itch.io deploy step into CI

Prerequisites

1. Install butler (one-time, per machine)

# macOS
brew install butler

# Linux
curl -L -o butler.zip https://broth.itch.ovh/butler/linux-amd64/LATEST/archive/default
unzip butler.zip
mv butler /usr/local/bin/butler

# Windows
scoop install butler
# or download from https://itchio.itch.io/butler

2. Authenticate (one-time, per machine)

butler login
# Opens browser → authorize → return to terminal.

For CI: set BUTLER_API_KEY instead (generate at https://itch.io/user/settings/api-keys). No butler login needed.

3. Create the itch.io page (one-time, in browser)

Butler refuses the first push if the target page does not exist.

  1. https://itch.io/dashboard → Create new project
  2. Settings:
    • Kind: HTML
    • Viewport size: match your build (e.g. 1280×720)
    • "This file will be played in the browser": checked
  3. Save as Draft (publish after verifying the first push).

After the page exists, all future deploys are fully scripted.

Core command

butler push <build-dir> <user>/<game>:<channel> --userversion <version>
Argument Example Meaning
<build-dir> dist/ local directory to upload
<user>/<game> acme/spacelander itch.io target
<channel> html5 upload channel (html5, windows, linux, osx, …)
--userversion 1.4.2 stamps the upload (optional but recommended)

Example:

butler push dist/ acme/spacelander:html5 --userversion 1.4.2

Common patterns

Build then push

Wire build + push together — pick whichever fits your stack:

Read the full file on GitHub · 137 lines

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. 2mo ago First seen · 137 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A c7186342d91b

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butler-deploy is a skill published in the GitHub repository Yesterday-AI/skills (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 1,169 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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