medium-publisher

Business

Prepare eunomia.dev Markdown articles for Medium drafts, imports, and faithful long-form syndication. Use when asked to paste, import, QA, or record Medium posts for blog, tutorial, project, paper, release, or GitHub content. Preserves the English source title and body exactly apart from mechanical rendering fixes, with optional canonical settings, browser QA, safe stop-before-publish behavior, follow-up, and media ledger updates.

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Source SKILL.md: https://github.com/eunomia-bpf/eunomia.dev/blob/HEAD/.agents/skills/medium-publisher/SKILL.md

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Medium Publisher

Prepare Medium drafts from canonical eunomia.dev content and stop before final publishing unless the user explicitly confirms it.

Inputs

Source Markdown path or source/canonical eunomia.dev URL.
Source title, optional source subtitle, publication, tags, cover, or optional canonical URL.
Optional GitHub link, paper link, or follow-up plan.

If the source path is missing, inspect .github/publisher/posts_queue.txt, .github/publisher/media/not-published.md, and recent docs/blog/posts/.

Platform Entry Points

New story: https://medium.com/new-story
Import story: https://medium.com/p/import
Stories: https://medium.com/me/stories/drafts
Notifications: https://medium.com/me/notifications

Use a browser surface with the logged-in session when UI work is required.

References

Load references/platform-preferences.md when choosing canonical syndication settings, light Medium metadata/rendering adaptations, title/subtitle/cover, tags, browser QA, promotion balance, or follow-up. Do not load broad strategy drafts for routine publishing unless the user asks for campaign or content-platform planning.

Browser-Only Platform Boundary

Do not directly access Medium APIs, internal endpoints, or background HTTP interfaces. All drafting, QA, screenshots, and ledger evidence must come from normal browser interactions. Use the Medium web import/editor UI and visible submit buttons for publication; Medium publish APIs are not part of the default workflow.

Draft Preparation

Read the canonical English source and record the source URL, GitHub links, and paper links when known.
Preserve the source title exactly and keep the body substantively unchanged.
Make only mechanical adaptations: remove site front matter or a duplicate H1, convert heading levels, repair image URLs/uploads, and preserve readable code, tables, formulas, embeds, and links. Set Medium tags, publication, cover, and other metadata without changing the article.
Preserve GitHub, project, paper, and source links already in the article. Add body text or links only after the same source change or an explicit user request.
If the source is not suitable for Medium, skip it or fix the source first. Rewrite, translate, shorten, expand, reorder, or split it only when the user explicitly asks for that specific publication.

Draft Archive

Before opening the Medium editor, write or update the Medium draft record under draft/media/YYYY-MM-DD/<source-slug>/medium.md using the local date. For canonical imports, this file may reference the source Markdown body instead of duplicating it, but it must record the exact source title, optional source subtitle, canonical relationship when configured, GitHub/paper links, tags, source/project note if useful, media choices, and QA state. For long-form posts, finish the Medium-specific artifact or import checklist locally before opening Medium; use the web editor/import UI for import, settings, preview, and QA rather than structural repair.

Browser QA

Before stopping for user confirmation, verify:

canonical/import relationship is correct when configured
the Medium body has not drifted from the canonical article except for necessary formatting/link/tag edits
title matches the source exactly; subtitle is unchanged from the source or omitted unless the user requested one
code blocks, images, embeds, links, and headings render cleanly
tags are relevant and not spammy
no confidential or unreleased claims appear
the visible final Publish action has not been clicked

Before confirmed publishing, scroll through the full imported/editor story in the browser preview or editor surface. After confirmed publishing, open the public Medium URL and scroll through the rendered story from top to bottom before updating the ledger. Verify images actually load, title/subtitle are not polluted by site suffixes, headings do not include empty artifacts, tables have survived or have readable fallbacks, code blocks are not mangled by language detection labels, canonical settings when configured, source/project links work, and mobile/narrow rendering is usable when practical. If the public page exposes a formatting issue, edit the published story through the web UI and repeat the public-page check.

Medium import is allowed to preserve the canonical body, but it is not safe to trust blindly. Specifically check whether imported titles carried the source site suffix such as | eunomia, whether Markdown tables were flattened into loose paragraphs, whether image captions are empty placeholders, and whether code block language labels appeared as prose. If Medium cannot preserve a table cleanly, replace that table with a readable list or compact prose fallback in the web editor before publishing.

Follow-Up

After confirmed publish and public-page QA, capture the Medium URL. Monitor responses, highlights, private notes, and publication feedback only when the user asks or follow-up was part of the task. Draft replies that add context rather than sell.

Ledger Update

After confirmed publish, update .github/publisher/media/published.md with source path, canonical URL, Medium URL, date, tags/publication, media, and follow-up notes.

Before final completion, add any Medium-specific issue encountered during this session to this skill or references/platform-preferences.md, then record the public-page QA result in the draft record.