Strand Publish

strand-publish

Operates Strand's Git-based publishing workflow. The content repo is the source of truth; every article change is a commit on a branch and a pull request. Never push to main directly, never force-push, never rewrite published history.

Preconditions (check before publishing)

1. The post file lives at content/posts/<slug>.mdx.
2. Frontmatter validates against the schema. Run strand validate <slug> (or the MCP validate_post tool). If it fails, fix it with the strand-content-schema skill first — do not publish a failing post.
3. For factual or news content, sources[] is populated and claims are cited (use strand-fact-check-cite).
4. The article has been through the humanizer pass, and — when the site runs a review gate — strand-review-gate has logged it as pass or revised in content/review/<branch>.log. Never publish an article the gate marked blocked or never saw.

Workflow

1. Set status.
   • Going live now → status: published, publishedAt = now (ISO 8601).
   • Future date → status: scheduled, publishedAt = the target datetime. Do not flip it to published; the scheduled CI run / editor cron does that at the right time.
   • Still iterating → leave status: draft and stop here.
2. Branch. post/<slug> (new) or update/<slug> (edit to a live post). One post per branch.
3. Commit. Stage only the post file and any author/asset files it introduces. Message: post: <title> or update(<slug>): <what changed>.
4. Open a PR. Title = the article title; body = a 2–3 line summary, the target publish date, and the validation result. Use the MCP publish_post tool if available (it wraps branch + commit + PR), otherwise gh pr create.
5. Let CI run. CI re-validates frontmatter, checks internal links, and lints JSON-LD. If CI is red, fix on the same branch — never merge red.
6. Merge per repo policy. Auto-merge if the repo enables it; otherwise leave for human review. Merging main triggers the build, which regenerates sitemap.xml, JSON-LD, rss.xml, llms.txt, and the .md endpoints.

Rollback

Reverting a published post = a normal git revert of the merge commit via a new PR. Never delete history. To unpublish without deleting, set noindex: true and status: draft in a follow-up PR.

Hard rules

• PR-only. No direct main writes, no force-push.
• Never publish a post that fails validate.
• Never invent a publishedAt in the past to backdate a brand-new article. Late or backfilled posts publish with the real (current) date.
• Asset binaries go through the storage adapter, not committed as large blobs, unless the repo is configured for in-repo assets.