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+name: First publish
+
+# One-off: publishes the packages that have never been on npm (cli, ingest and
+# the stores), from the v0.8 release commit, with the NPM_TOKEN secret. Once
+# they exist, trusted publishing can be turned on for them and this workflow
+# is removed.
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+  id-token: write
+
+jobs:
+  publish:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          ref: b456c36a86183f5e2e87129ac538632fd0c2a618
+
+      - uses: pnpm/action-setup@v4
+
+      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
+        with:
+          node-version: 22
+          cache: pnpm
+          registry-url: https://registry.npmjs.org
+
+      - run: pnpm install --frozen-lockfile
+
+      - name: Build
+        run: pnpm --filter "./packages/*" build
+
+      - name: Publish the packages that aren't on npm yet
+        env:
+          NODE_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.NPM_TOKEN }}
+          NPM_CONFIG_PROVENANCE: 'true'
+        run: |
+          for p in ingest cli store-cloudflare store-postgres store-redis store-sqlite store-upstash-vector; do
+            v=$(node -p "require('./packages/$p/package.json').version")
+            if npm view "@chatcops/$p@$v" version >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+              echo "@chatcops/$p@$v is already on npm"
+              continue
+            fi
+            # They're private on that commit, which pnpm publish refuses.
+            node -e "const f='packages/$p/package.json',fs=require('fs'),j=JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(f));delete j.private;fs.writeFileSync(f,JSON.stringify(j,null,2)+'\n')"
+            (cd "packages/$p" && pnpm publish --access public --no-git-checks)
+          done