publishing_skill

Overview

This skill focuses on publishing features for eBook workflows, including EPUB generation, cover image creation, platform integration, and export automation. It provides practical tools and patterns to produce standards-compliant outputs and streamline distribution. The goal is reliable, testable publishing pipelines that handle metadata, assets, and platform requirements.

How this skill works

The skill inspects content, assets, and metadata to assemble EPUB 3.0 packages, generate optimized cover images, and produce other output formats like PDF. It validates exports against standards and platform rules, compresses and manages images and fonts, and emits detailed error reports. Integration adapters automate submissions to platforms such as Amazon KDP and Google Play, and export workflows support retries, logging, and progress tracking.

When to use it

• Implement EPUB 3.0 or other eBook generation features
• Build automated cover image generation and styling pipelines
• Create platform-specific export and submission workflows
• Automate metadata handling and validation before distribution
• Optimize large-file exports and improve publishing performance

Best practices

• Validate exports against EPUB and platform specifications before submission
• Keep publishing logic modular to separate asset handling, packaging, and submission
• Support multiple output formats and provide fallbacks for platform constraints
• Compress images intelligently to balance quality and file size
• Provide clear, actionable error messages and progress feedback to users
• Automate tests for compliance and end-to-end export scenarios

Example use cases

• Create an EPUB generator that assembles chapters, embeds fonts, and produces a validated .epub file
• Generate cover images from templates or AI models and export multiple size variants for platforms
• Implement an adapter to submit books to Amazon KDP and handle platform-specific metadata transformations
• Build an export pipeline that produces EPUB and PDF, runs validation, and uploads artifacts to a content delivery system
• Automate batch submissions with retry logic, logging, and compliance checks for multiple titles