deploy-to-connect SKILL.md skillA
deploy-to-connect from posit-dev/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add posit-dev/skills/deploy-to-connect@v4.0Pins v4.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- posit-dev/skills
- Path
connect/deploy-to-connect/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 6
- Latest version
- v4.0, committed Oct 27, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 29, 2026
- Size
- 21,241 bytes
- Repository stars
- 552
- License
- MIT
Deploy or publish Python and R content to a Posit Connect server using rsconnect-python or the R rsconnect package. Handles interactive apps and dashboards, web APIs, rendered documents, and prepared bundles/manifests. Use whenever the user asks to deploy, publish, or redeploy content to Posit Connect, or mentions rsconnect. Consult this skill instead of guessing flags or commands.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
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Maintainer note: edit this skill in posit-dev/connect only.
Downstream copies are overwritten by the sync workflow.
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# Deploying to Posit Connect
This guide covers Python, R, and static content on a Connect server.
A registered Connect Model Context Protocol (MCP) server can also provide publishing tools.
Choose the deployment route that matches the content and available tools:
- Python — [posit-cli](https://github.com/posit-dev/posit-cli), which provides the `posit` CLI and is published on PyPI. Its `posit connect` commands wrap [rsconnect-python](https://github.com/posit-dev/rsconnect-python).
- R — the R [`rsconnect`](https://rstudio.github.io/rsconnect/) package, pointed at a Connect server.
- A registered Connect MCP server — use its publishing tools when they support the content.
If the user asks a question ("how do I…", "what is the command…") rather than asking for a deploy, answer from this guide and stop.
At the end, report which server you deployed to, which content type you picked, any tool you installed, and any assumption you made.
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## Stage 1 — Detect the content
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add posit-dev/skills/deploy-to-connect@sha256:7bd3e0dff164ac25The line at the top of this page pins the label v4.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_6r2i6fhcrcd3y3xp)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Jul 29, 2026 and Oct 27, 2026, about one every 18 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| v4.0 latest | 2026-10-27 | 738f974 | 21,241 B | A | view · diff |
| v4.0 | 2026-09-08 | af860b7 | 19,915 B | A | view · diff |
| v4.0 | 2026-08-13 | 5b3032b | 18,015 B | A | view · diff |
| v4.0 | 2026-08-05 | 95b72b7 | 17,889 B | A | view · diff |
| v3.0 | 2026-08-04 | 5bbcbb9 | 16,916 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.0 | 2026-07-29 | 3df4984 | 18,729 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (21241 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
posit-dev/skills · 552 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_6r2i6fhcrcd3y3xp GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=posit-dev/skills/deploy-to-connect GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/7bd3e0dff164ac259d8151ba79b8671ed78335e43bf1a4d159afd000bcd6e956
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.