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publish-extension
cline/clineSkill
Use when releasing the Cline VS Code extension — stable (standalone SDK build of main via ext-vscode-publish), nightly (ext-vscode-publish-nightly, manual dispatch), or an emergency legacy-branch hotfix (ext-vscode-publish-legacy). Guides version selection, changelog, workflow dispatch, environment approvals, tagging, post-publish verification, and the remaining retirement of the finished A/B rollout machinery.
Why this score
This repo hosts 9 skills, so its 70,567 stars are split between them (about 7,841 each) for scoring.
Popularity score: 90/100 from public GitHub signals only. It shows how widely used and maintained this is, not how well it works. Not included yet: the fake-star check. The security scan is shown separately and doesn't change the score. How we rank
Security
Scanned Oct 20, 2026 at commit 82486434b370, with Cisco's open-source skill-scanner.
What its code does:
- Runs shell commands Common for dev tools. Read the commands it runs.SKILL.md:2
- Downloads content and runs it Whatever it downloads can change after we scanned it.SKILL.md:98
Web addresses in its code:
- data.cline.botSKILL.md:153
- marketplace.visualstudio.comSKILL.md:35
- open-vsx.orgSKILL.md:98
These are the sites named in the code, so it's where your data could go. It isn't a complete list: code can build addresses while it runs, and a few of these may be links rather than calls. Whatever you send also goes to the AI model you use.
A scan lists patterns in the code. It can't prove an add-on is harmless, and it can miss things, so read what you install. How we scan
Alternatives
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| This onepublish-extension cline/cline · Skill | 90 | ★ 71k | ≈108 always | 16d ago |
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| publish TencentCloud/Octop · Skill Both about publish and branch | 80 | ★ 10k | ≈20 always | 16d ago |
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