Publish Desktop
Use when preparing, tagging, and publishing a Cline desktop app...
Install
npx skills add cline/cline --skill publish-desktop -g -a claude-code -y- Repository
- cline/cline71.2k
- Category
- Testing
- Updated
- 4d ago
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Context cost
- Mediumabout 3,000 tokens
- Runs scripts
- No, instructions only
What it does
Use when preparing, tagging, and publishing a Cline desktop app (apps/examples/desktop-app) release, stable (desktop-vX.Y.Z from main), beta (desktop-vX.Y.Z-beta.N from desktop-experimental, shipped as the side-by-side "Cline Beta" app), or nightly (artifact-only test build of main's HEAD, tagged desktop-nightly-<stamp> after it builds). Guides changelog drafting, version bumps in package.json + tauri.conf.json, tagging, and the desktop-publish GitHub workflow that builds, signs, notarizes, and updates the per-channel auto-update feed.
Desktop App Release
Use this skill when the user asks to release the desktop app, publish the Cline desktop app, cut a desktop beta, cut a desktop nightly, bump the desktop version, create a desktop-vX.Y.Z (or desktop-vX.Y.Z-beta.N) tag, or trigger the desktop publish workflow.
Working directory: run every command below from the repository root.
Desktop releases ship three platforms, built entirely in GitHub Actions, there is no local publish path. macOS: a single signed + notarized universal DMG that runs natively on both Apple Silicon and Intel. Linux: x64 .deb and .rpm packages (<Product>_<version>_amd64.deb, <Product>_<version>_x86_64.rpm) built on Ubuntu 22.04 in the build-linux job, deb + rpm only (no AppImage: linuxdeploy cannot process the Bun-compiled Cline CLI the app bundles). Windows: an Authenticode-signed NSIS installer (<Product>_<version>_x64-setup.exe), signed via Azure Trusted Signing in the build-windows job (jsign through Tauri's signCommand, see apps/examples/desktop-app/scripts/tauri-sign-windows.ps1; requires the repo-level AZURE_* secrets including AZURE_TRUSTED_SIGNING_CERTIFICATE_PROFILE_DESKTOP, plus a PublishDesktop-environment federated credential on the cline-cli-signing Entra app). Installed apps discover new releases automatically through the Tauri updater, so publishing a release is what ships the update to every existing user on that channel.
