setup commands

Intent exposes publishing setup as two commands.

npx @tanstack/intent@latest edit-package-json
npx @tanstack/intent@latest setup

Commands#

• edit-package-json: add or normalize package.json entries needed to publish skills

• setup: copy workflow templates to .github/workflows

• setup-github-actions: legacy alias for setup

What each command changes#

edit-package-json#

• Requires a valid package.json in the current directory

• Ensures keywords includes tanstack-intent

• Ensures files includes required publish entries

• Preserves existing indentation

setup#

• Copies the check-skills.yml workflow template from @tanstack/intent/meta/templates/workflows to .github/workflows

• Applies variable substitution (PACKAGE_NAME, PACKAGE_LABEL, PAYLOAD_PACKAGE, REPO, DOCS_PATH, SRC_PATH, WATCH_PATHS)

• Detects the workspace root in monorepos and writes repo-level workflows there

• Skips files that already exist at the destination

Required files entries#

edit-package-json enforces different files sets based on package location:

• Monorepo package: skills

• Non-monorepo package: skills, !skills/_artifacts

Common errors#

• Missing or invalid package.json when running edit-package-json

• Missing template source when running setup

Notes#

• setup skips existing files

• check-skills.yml validates skills on PRs and opens review PRs from release/manual runs

• To adopt updated workflow templates, delete or move the old generated workflow files first, then rerun setup

• If your repo has an older generated validate-skills.yml, remove it after adopting the current check-skills.yml; PR validation now lives in check-skills.yml

• In monorepos, run setup from either the repo root or a package directory; Intent writes workflows to the workspace root

Related#

• intent validate
• intent scaffold