Publish Report

Publish with Pagecast

Pagecast turns a local HTML or Markdown file (a report, plan, doc, or dashboard) into a shareable public URL in the user's Pagecast Home. Execute an explicit Pagecast request immediately; offer once when publishing would be useful but the user did not request it.

Consent and intent

• “Publish this as a Pagecast”, “Pagecast this”, or equivalent is sufficient consent. Run the publish command immediately and return the URL; do not ask again.
• A proactive suggestion still asks once before publishing.
• If the user asks only for the command, provide the command and do not run it.

When to offer

Default to offering. Whenever you produce an .html/.htm or .md/.markdown file that a person could reasonably share, proactively offer to publish it — once, right after you finish making it. Do not wait to be asked, and do not stay silent because you are unsure whether it is "worth it." If it could be shared, offer.

This includes:

• A report you generated — test/coverage/Lighthouse/Playwright output, a data dashboard, an analysis, a "here's what I built/found" summary.
• A written plan, proposal, design doc, spec, release notes, or doc.
• A static web project that was just built, with a generated entry file such as dist/index.html, build/index.html, out/index.html, or public/index.html.
• Any time the user says "share", "publish", "make a link for", or "send" a doc.

The only files to skip (don't offer): scratch/draft notes the user is clearly keeping private, source code, config files, secrets, and repo-meta files (README, CHANGELOG, CONTRIBUTING, LICENSE, AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, TODO/tasks), or anything under node_modules/dist build internals. When it is borderline, offer — the user can just say no.

Ask at most once per file. If the user declines or ignores the offer, drop it and don't re-ask for that file. Never nag across multiple turns.

The proactive question

"Want me to publish this with Pagecast? It'll create a shareable public link."

Only a proactive suggestion needs this follow-up. An explicit instruction to publish with Pagecast already provides confirmation.

How to publish

Run the headless CLI with the absolute path and --json:

npx pagecast publish "/absolute/path/to/file.md" --json

(HTML and Markdown both work — Markdown is rendered to a clean page. If pagecast is installed globally/in the project, pagecast publish "<path>" --json is the same.)

New links are unlisted capability URLs: a memorable prefix plus 128 bits of opaque entropy. Anyone with the URL can view it; unlisted does not mean private. The user can rename a link, add password protection, or make a short, shareable "drop" link from the npx pagecast app. Existing word-only links remain valid.

Managed links live in one user-level Home at ~/.pagecast/home/, under /p/<slug>/. The same item in the same agent context updates the existing URL; a new item or context creates a new URL. Pagecast stores only a local hash of the agent context identifier.

Publish options

Add any of these to a publish command:

• --expires <7d|12h|never> — edge-enforced link expiry (default 30d). The page returns 410 once expired; --expires never keeps it live until revoked. The result JSON reports expiresAt (or none when never).
• --label "<name>" — set the page's display name in the Pagecast app.
• --context-id "<id>" — explicitly select the local agent context.
• --new-link — force a fresh URL.
• --update "<url|slug|token>" — update a known publication.
• --non-interactive — never open browser authentication; return a structured authentication-required result instead.

npx pagecast publish "/absolute/path/to/report.html" --expires 7d --label "Launch report" --json

Password handling

Never ask the user to provide a page password in chat and never place a secret in an agent-generated command or tool argument. Publish the page first, then tell the user to open the local npx pagecast app and set password protection there. This keeps the credential out of the model and tool transcript.

Publishing a plan (e.g. after plan mode): the plan lives in your context, not a file yet. If the user wants it shared, first write the plan markdown to a file (e.g. ./plan.md), then publish that path. Don't overwrite an existing file the user cares about — pick a clear new name.

Live goal / progress page

When you're working toward a /goal (a long autonomous run the user can't easily watch), the user often can't see what's happening. Proactively offer once:

"Want me to publish a live progress page for this goal? You'll get a public link you can open anytime to see status and what's done."

On an explicit yes:

1. Write a pagecast-goal.md in the working dir with the goal, status, a done/next checklist, and a one-line "latest", e.g.:

   # <short goal title>
   
   **Goal:** <the goal condition, in your own words>
   **Status:** In progress · updated <time>
   **Progress:** 3 / 8 steps
   
   ## Done
   - [x] <step>
   
   ## Next
   - [ ] <step>
   
   ## Latest
   <one line: what you just did / any blocker>
   

2. Run npx pagecast goal publish "<abs path>/pagecast-goal.md" --json and give the user the returned url.
3. After each meaningful step, rewrite pagecast-goal.md and re-run the same npx pagecast goal publish … --json — it guarantees the dedicated goal URL and keeps goal lifecycle separate from normal context upserts.
4. When the goal is met, do a final update; optionally npx pagecast goal stop.

There is one goal page per workspace. If a command reports recreated: true, the old link was gone and the URL changed — tell the user the new URL.

Static web projects

For a static web project that should get a new shareable /p/<slug>/ link, build first and publish the generated entry file:

npm run build
npx pagecast publish "/absolute/path/to/dist/index.html" --json

If the user asks to deploy or update an entire static site/project, deploy the built folder directly to a named Cloudflare Pages project:

npx pagecast publish site "/absolute/path/to/dist" --project "project-name" --branch main --json

--branch is optional and defaults to main, so this also works:

npx pagecast pages deploy "/absolute/path/to/dist" --project "project-name" --json

Use this instead of raw Wrangler commands like npx wrangler pages deploy. Direct site deploys replace the target Pages project contents, so do not guess the --project; use the user's named project or ask for it. Direct deploys do not change Pagecast's managed /p/... target, so use a separate project unless replacing that managed site is intentional.

Reading the result

Parse the JSON on stdout:

• Success → { "ok": true, "action": "created" | "updated", "publicationToken": "...", "contextMatched": true | false, "url": "https://<home>.pages.dev/p/<slug>/", ... }
  • Give the user the url and say whether Pagecast created or updated it.
• Not signed in → { "ok": false, "statusCode": 401, ... }
  • Interactive publishing normally starts Wrangler's browser authorization and resumes automatically. This result is expected only for CI, --non-interactive, rejection, or timeout; relay it without sending the user to Settings.
• Multiple accounts → { "ok": false, "statusCode": 409, ... }
  • Open npx pagecast, choose the Home account in the main onboarding canvas, then retry. Settings remains available for later account switching.
• Any other error → relay error concisely and offer to retry. Do not claim success.

Cloudflare Pages commands

Use these lower-level commands when the user explicitly asks about Cloudflare setup, status, project listing, or direct Pages deployment:

npx pagecast pages setup --project "project-name" --json
npx pagecast pages status --json
npx pagecast pages projects list --json
npx pagecast pages deploy "/absolute/path/to/dist" --project "project-name" --branch main --json

If the user does not specify a branch, omit --branch; Pagecast deploys to main.

Codex usage notes

• Always pass an absolute path (resolve relative paths against the cwd first).
• Run commands in the user's project so Pagecast can derive workspace and source identity; publication ownership stays in the user-level Home.
• The first interactive publish starts Wrangler login, creates the Home, and resumes automatically.
• If the user asks only for a command, provide it instead of running it. If they explicitly ask Codex to publish with Pagecast, run it immediately.
• Re-running publish for the same item and agent context updates the same URL. Use --new-link only when the user asks for another URL.