Operon Publish

Operon — Publish a Draft

After operon mine runs, each detected pattern lands on the user's disk under ~/.operon/candidates/<slug>/ and uploads to their workspace's private Drafts slot at https://app.withoperon.com/<workspace>/candidates. This skill walks an AI assistant through helping the user pick one of those drafts and publish it to their team.

When to use this skill

• The user says "publish my best prompt" or "ship this one to my team."
• They've just run operon mine (or operon setup) and are looking at 3–5 candidates wondering which to publish.
• They opened the web Drafts tab and want a recommendation.

How to use it

1. Confirm the user is set up

operon doctor --json

If auth is missing, run operon setup first. If sources is empty, the user doesn't have Claude Code / Codex / Cursor installed yet — stop and tell them.

2. List the user's drafts

Two equivalent paths — pick whichever fits the conversation:

CLI:

operon list --json

Output is an array of candidate summaries with slug, score, uses, spanDays. Drafts also live on the platform at https://app.withoperon.com/<workspace>/candidates — surface that URL to the user if they want to read each draft in a browser.

3. Show the top 3 to the user and ask

Sort by score descending and show:

1. review-pr     (score 0.91, 12 uses across 14 days)
2. migrate-down  (score 0.84,  8 uses across  9 days)
3. ship-hotfix   (score 0.77,  6 uses across 11 days)

Ask which one to publish. Don't pick for them — these are their prompts, they know which one feels real.

4. (Optional) Polish before publishing

The mined draft is rough — auto-extracted from session content. If the user has ANTHROPIC_API_KEY set, offer to refine it:

operon polish <slug>

This rewrites the draft using Claude with the original exemplar sessions as context (those bodies stay on the user's laptop).

If ANTHROPIC_API_KEY isn't set, you can polish from the web Drafts dashboard instead — there's a "Polish with Claude" button that uses Operon's platform key. Surface the URL:

https://app.withoperon.com/<workspace>/candidates/<slug>

5. Publish

operon publish <slug>

Report the resulting URL back to the user. It'll look like:

https://app.withoperon.com/<workspace>/<slug>

Their teammates can now operon install <workspace>/<slug> to drop it into their own Claude Code / Codex / Cursor.

Error handling

If the publish step fails, parse stderr for the https://withoperon.com/docs/cli/errors#<slug> link:

• AUTH_REQUIRED → re-run operon login.
• WORKSPACE_NOT_LINKED → run operon setup or pass --workspace <slug> to publish.
• RATE_LIMITED → wait a minute and retry.
• NETWORK_ERROR → check connectivity.

Notes for agents

• Publishing creates a versioned operon. The first publish lands at v0.1.0; subsequent publishes auto-bump the patch.
• Visibility defaults to team. To publish privately (only the miner sees it), pass --visibility private.
• The on-disk draft at ~/.operon/candidates/<slug>/ is left alone after publish — the user can re-mine over it any time.