# Revit Addin Publishing

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- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-nice3point-revit-skills-revit-addin-publishing`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [Nice3point](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/nice3point)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [Nice3point](https://github.com/Nice3point)
- **Source:** https://github.com/Nice3point/revit-skills/tree/main/plugins/revit-solution/skills/revit-addin-publishing

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-nice3point-revit-skills-revit-addin-publishing
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Revit Add-in Publishing

The `Nice3point.Revit.Sdk` targets copy the built add-in and its `.addin` manifest to one of two destinations and patch the manifest per Revit version.
`DeployAddin` copies into the local Revit add-ins folder (`%AppData%\Autodesk\Revit\Addins\`), so the running Revit loads the add-in on its next start; `PublishAddin` copies into `bin\publish` (like `dotnet publish`) for distribution.
Enable them only in the project that owns the `.addin` manifest.
To launch and debug the deployed add-in from the IDE, use `revit-addin-debugging`.

## When to use

- Setting up a project to copy its add-in to the local Revit for testing, or to `bin/publish` for distribution.
- Bundling extra content (families, resources) into the add-in output.

## Workflow

### Step 1: Deploy or publish

```xml
true 
true 
```

`DeployAddin` implies publishing.
Override the targets with `AddinDeployDir` / `AddinPublishDir`.

### Step 2: Include extra content

```xml

```

### Step 3: Rely on manifest patching

The SDK removes the `ManifestSettings` node for Revit versions older than 2026 during publish, so one `.addin` works across supported years (see `revit-dependency-isolation`).

### Step 4: Verify

Build, and confirm the add-in and manifest land in the deploy or publish folder and that Revit loads the add-in.

## Validation

- [ ] Deploy/publish is enabled only in the project holding the `.addin` manifest.
- [ ] Extra content is declared with `PublishDirectory` / `CopyToPublishDirectory`.
- [ ] The manifest works across supported years via SDK patching.

## Common Pitfalls

| Pitfall                                                     | Correct approach                                                |
|-------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
| Enabling deploy in a class-library project with no `.addin` | Enable it only in the manifest-owning project.                  |
| Copying families with a raw `` item                   | Use ``. |
| Hand-editing the manifest per Revit version                 | Let the SDK patch `ManifestSettings` on publish.                |

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [Nice3point](https://github.com/Nice3point)
- **Source:** [Nice3point/revit-skills](https://github.com/Nice3point/revit-skills)
- **License:** MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-nice3point-revit-skills-revit-addin-publishing
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/nice3point
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