Prepare to publish
SkillDocs & knowledgePrepare a subset of the vault for publishing: check opt-in flags, find private material, and report what would leak through links before anything is exported. Use this skill when the user wants to publish notes as a site or digital garden, asks what is safe to make public, or is setting up an export. Do NOT use for exporting a single document, or for running the publishing tool itself.
Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.
No other account needed.
Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.
Then ask your AI: use the Prepare to publish skill
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by undefined-ui/second-brain-os in skills/second-brain-publish/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
Once something is crawled, it is out. Every check here is cheap; the failure it prevents is permanent.
Core rule
Explicit opt-in only. A page publishes because it says publish: true, never
because nothing excluded it.
Workflow
- List the opt-in set. Every page marked for publication.
- Follow their links. A published page linking to a private one either leaks the title or produces a dead link. Report both.
- Scan for anything that should never ship: credentials, other people's private information, confidential work, personal detail in examples.
- Check the frontmatter for fields not meant to be public, such as confidence labels or private source paths.
- Report, do not export. The user runs the build.
Output format
Publishable: <n> pages
Links to unpublished pages: <n>
[[public page]] -> [[private page]]
Flagged content: <list with reasons>
Frontmatter to strip: <fields>
Verdict: <safe to build | fix these first>
Calibration
Err toward flagging. A false positive costs the user ten seconds; a miss is permanent.
If the user asks to publish the whole vault, ask what they intend to do about the private material rather than proceeding.
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 57
- Forks
- 8
- Last commit
- Sep 2026
Advanced
- Catalog kind
- skill
- Gateway key
second-brain-publish- Source
- github.com/undefined-ui/second-brain-os