This document covers the SKILL / plugin release. Two other trains exist and are out of scope here:
- The
@openprose/reactor*packages release on their ownreactor-v*tag train (see their flow). @openprose/prose-clihas been removed from the repo. The Reactor SDKreactorCLI + replay devtools replaced it, so there is noprose-clirelease train: its package, npm publish flow ("OpenProse Release" workflow, release preflight, and CLI release checks) are all gone.
The single remaining track here is skill — the open-prose SKILL plus the
Claude + Codex plugin manifests that deliver it (skills/open-prose/SKILL.md,
.claude-plugin/plugin.json, .codex-plugin/plugin.json). These move
together: the Claude Code marketplace deduplicates by manifest version, so a
skill change only reaches plugin users when the manifest version advances.
Machine compatibility is a separate signal — SKILL.md's runtime_contract —
not this X.Y.Z.
./scripts/bump-version.sh --track skill X.Y.Z # bump the skill track's files
./scripts/bump-version.sh --check # the track is internally consistent
./scripts/bump-version.sh --list # print the track's versionThe skill ships from the repository (the skills CLI reads it directly) and
through the plugin marketplace (which reads the manifests). There is no npm
publish for this track, so its release is a version bump + tag + marketplace
resubmission — independent of any CLI release.
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Land the skill changes on
main, then bump theskilltrack:./scripts/bump-version.sh --track skill X.Y.Z ./scripts/bump-version.sh --check
Bump the major of
runtime_contractinSKILL.mdas well only when the skill's machine contract changes incompatibly (it is independent ofX.Y.Z). -
Add a
## [X.Y.Z]section toCHANGELOG.mdand the migration notes toskills/open-prose/changelog.md(the deferred upgrade brain consumed byprose upgrade). -
Merge the PR. The
Plugin Manifestworkflow enforces--checkand the manifest structure on every PR. -
Tag and publish a GitHub Release for provenance (this tag triggers no workflow — it is a marker, kept distinct from the CLI's
v*tags):git tag -a "skill-vX.Y.Z" -m "open-prose skill X.Y.Z" git push origin "skill-vX.Y.Z" gh release create "skill-vX.Y.Z" --title "open-prose skill X.Y.Z" \ --notes-file <(./scripts/extract-changelog.sh X.Y.Z)
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Resubmit the plugin to the marketplaces (manual — see below), referencing the
skill-vX.Y.Ztag SHA. Until the manifest version advances in the marketplace, plugin users stay on the previous cached copy.
Marketplace publication remains manual after the GitHub Release exists.
Claude Code marketplace:
- Repo URL:
https://github.com/openprose/prose - Plugin path: leave blank;
.claude-plugin/is auto-detected - Marketplace name:
openprose - Plugin name:
open-prose - Version: the
skill-vX.Y.Ztag SHA
Codex Plugin Directory submission is staged through .codex-plugin/,
.agents/plugins/marketplace.json, and assets/plugin/ once the public
submission flow opens.