---
title: "Publish a draft as a new skill version"
method: POST
path: "/v1/skill-drafts/{draft_id}/publish"
tags: ["skill-drafts"]
---

# Publish a draft as a new skill version

`POST /v1/skill-drafts/{draft_id}/publish`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.patricia.app` (the document declares no server; this is the origin it was published from)
- URL: `https://api.patricia.app/v1/skill-drafts/{draft_id}/publish`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Compile the draft into ONE immutable version. The version is created exactly as the direct authoring routes create it: an owner or admin author's version is ready to enable immediately, and a version authored without that authority stays PROPOSED until an owner or admin approves it. Publishing does NOT enable the skill — enabling is a separate step with its own permission, so publishing from a draft is never a way around who may give a skill to the whole workspace.

A skill that has been published again by someone else since you started editing is refused until you review what changed (POST /skill-drafts/{id}/rebase).

## Path parameters

- `draft_id` string, uuid, required

## Headers

- `X-Tenant-Id` string, nullable

## Response `201`

Successful Response

- AuthorResponse: The outcome of authoring a version (manual / ZIP / a chosen GitHub candidate).
  - `skill_id` string, uuid, required
  - `manifest_version_id` string, uuid, required
  - `slug` string, required
  - `semver` string, required
  - `title` string, required
  - `status_code` string, required
  - `created` boolean, required

## Other responses

- `400`: Bad request
- `401`: Unauthorized
- `403`: Forbidden. Inspect response body `code` for the specific reason (for example: PERMISSION_DENIED, EMAIL_NOT_VERIFIED, TENANT_ACCESS_REQUIRED, ROLE_UNRESOLVED)
- `409`: Conflict
- `422`: Validation error

---

[API](https://skmtc.dev/patricia/apis/patricia-api.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/patricia/apis/patricia-api/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/patricia/apis/patricia-api/revisions/0dfb44495ea1?raw)