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Yifan Yang 5cd22bb71b docs: add PUBLISHING.md — how users install the three plugins
Per-platform install (Claude Code marketplace, Codex install.sh, Copilot MCP
server) plus optional wider-distribution steps (GitHub Release, official Claude
plugin marketplace PR, PyPI) and release-verification commands.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-08 14:31:52 +00:00

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Publishing SkillOpt-Sleep — how people install and use it

This is the open-source SkillOpt-Sleep tool: a nightly offline "sleep cycle" for local coding agents, shipped as plugins for Claude Code, Codex, and Copilot. One engine (skillopt_sleep/), three thin shells (plugins/), decoupled from the research code.

How end users install it

Claude Code

The Claude Code plugin ships a marketplace manifest at plugins/claude-code/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json.

# inside Claude Code:
/plugin marketplace add microsoft/SkillOpt
/plugin install skillopt-sleep
/sleep status

(/plugin marketplace add <owner>/<repo> reads the marketplace manifest from the repo; the entry points at plugins/claude-code.)

Codex

git clone https://github.com/microsoft/SkillOpt.git
cd SkillOpt
bash plugins/codex/install.sh           # installs /sleep prompt + skill
export SKILLOPT_SLEEP_REPO="$(pwd)"      # so the runner is found anywhere
# then, in Codex:  /sleep status

Copilot

git clone https://github.com/microsoft/SkillOpt.git
# register the MCP server with your Copilot config (see plugins/copilot/README.md
# and plugins/copilot/mcp-config.example.json), pointing SKILLOPT_SLEEP_REPO at
# the clone. Then ask Copilot to "run the sleep cycle".

Requirements for all three: Python ≥ 3.10, and the corresponding agent CLI on PATH. The default backend is mock (no API spend); --backend claude|codex uses the user's own budget.

Wider distribution (optional, maintainer steps)

  1. GitHub Release. Tag the milestone so users can pin a version:

    gh release create sleep-v0.1.0 --title "SkillOpt-Sleep v0.1.0" \
      --notes "Nightly offline self-evolution plugins for Claude Code, Codex, Copilot."
    
  2. Official Claude Code plugin marketplace. To appear in the public directory, open a PR adding a marketplace.json entry to [anthropics/claude-code / the official marketplace repo], pointing at microsoft/SkillOpt subdir plugins/claude-code. Users could then /plugin install skillopt-sleep@<official-marketplace>.

  3. PyPI (optional). skillopt_sleep is a standalone package (pyproject.toml lists it). A pip install skillopt-sleep distribution would let users run python -m skillopt_sleep ... without cloning. Build with python -m build and publish with twine.

  4. README News. The main README.md already announces the release and links to plugins/ and docs/sleep/FINAL_REPORT.md.

Verifying a release works

# deterministic, no API key:
python -m skillopt_sleep.experiments.run_experiment --persona researcher --assert-improves
# the unit suite:
python -m unittest tests.test_sleep_engine
# the MCP server (Copilot):
printf '%s\n' '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}' \
  | SKILLOPT_SLEEP_REPO="$(pwd)" python3 plugins/copilot/mcp_server.py