marketplace-publishing

To automate publishing skills to the dotnet-skills marketplace, use a workflow that validates SKILL.md frontmatter, updates the plugin.json registry with new paths, and runs release tagging with marketplace validation.

The required SKILL.md frontmatter ensures new skills and agents are properly registered and validated before release tagging. The publishing workflow checks that each SKILL.md contains this mandatory metadata to prevent manual errors.

Updating plugin.json when adding a new skill or agent involves registering the new file paths in the registry. The publishing workflow automates this update to coordinate repository structure and ensure all skills and agents are tracked.

Yes, the marketplace validation script runs during release tagging. The publishing workflow coordinates validation, versioning, and release tagging to ensure that all repository structures and metadata meet marketplace requirements.

Yes, you can use this publishing workflow for both skills and agents. It applies to repository structures with skills/ and agents/ directories, validating frontmatter and updating plugin.json for both types.

Publishing skills to the marketplace requires coordinating repository structure because plugin.json must register all skills and agents, SKILL.md files need valid frontmatter, and release tagging depends on successful marketplace validation to reduce manual errors.