medium-publishlisted

# Skill: medium-publish Prepares a markdown blog post for Medium by creating a temporary public GitHub Gist, copying its URL to the clipboard, and opening Medium's import page so you can paste the link and finish the import manually. **Why Gist?** Medium's import feature requires a publicly accessible URL. GitHub Gists are public and immediately accessible, making them ideal as a transport layer. The Gist is deleted after import. **Why heading transformation?** Medium's importer drops markdown heading syntax (`#`, `##`, etc.). Converting headings to bold (`**...**`) preserves visual hierarchy. **Why not build an import link?** Medium's import deep-links are brittle. Instead we open Medium's import page and hand you the Gist URL on the clipboard — you paste it and import manually, which is reliable and keeps you in control. ## Step 1 — Collect input If a file path was provided as an argument, use it directly. Otherwise ask via `AskUserQuestion`: ``` Which markdown file should I publish to Medium? Please provide the full path to your .md file. ``` ## Step 2 — Transform headings Read the file at `<input-path>`. For every line that starts with one or more `#` characters followed by a space, replace it with the heading text wrapped in `**...**`. Leave all other lines exactly unchanged. Hold the full transformed content in memory — do NOT write it to disk. Example: - `# My Title` → `**My Title**` - `## Section` → `**Section**` - `### Sub` → `**Sub**` - `Normal paragraph