/publish-report

name: publish-report
description: Help publish local HTML, Markdown, or built static web projects by asking whether to use Claude Code Artifacts or Pagecast/Cloudflare Pages when the user's publish request is ambiguous. Use when a report, plan, doc, dashboard, analysis, or static build output should be shared from Claude Code, especially when the user says publish, share, make a public link, or send this. If the user explicitly says Pagecast, publish with Pagecast.
version: 0.7.0

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.

Claude Code Artifacts are also a valid publishing path. Do **not** disable or block Artifacts. When the user explicitly asks for a Claude Artifact, `claude.ai` artifact, or org-private artifact, use the Artifact flow. When the user explicitly asks for Pagecast or a Cloudflare Pages link, use Pagecast. When the user only says "publish", "share", "make a link", or similar, ask them which publishing path they want before doing anything.

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.
• A `PostToolUse` hint fired saying an HTML/Markdown file was created — treat that

as a cue to offer.

If the user says only "publish this" or "make this shareable" for a local report/doc/dashboard, ask them to choose between Claude Code Artifacts and Pagecast. The built-in Claude Code Artifact publisher is useful for `claude.ai` private/org pages. Pagecast is useful for external Cloudflare Pages URLs that can be renamed, re-synced, revoked, password-protected, or expired.

**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 question to ask

When the user has not specified a publishing path, ask:

> "How do you want to publish this? > 1. Claude Code Artifact — private/org `claude.ai` page that can update in place. > 2. Pagecast — Cloudflare Pages link you can share outside Claude, rename, > re-sync, revoke, password-protect, or expire. > 3. Don't publish."

Accept the number or the name. Only proceed after an explicit choice. An explicit request for Pagecast already selects Pagecast and provides publishing consent. If they choose Pagecast, run the Pagecast CLI below. If they choose Claude Code Artifact, use the Claude Artifact publishing flow and do not run Pagecast. Publishing may make content reachable outside the current chat, especially with Pagecast — **never publish without 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 use