diff --git a/.github/workflows/deno.yml b/.github/workflows/deno.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 6880179f..00000000
--- a/.github/workflows/deno.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,43 +0,0 @@
-name: Publish NPM
-
-on:
-  workflow_dispatch:
-    inputs:
-      package:
-        required: true
-        description: 'core, artifact, cache, exec, github, glob, io, tool-cache'
-      version:
-        required: true
-        description: 'the version of the package to publish'
- 
-jobs:
-  test:
-    runs-on: macos-latest
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Setup repo
-        uses: actions/checkout@v2
-
-      - name: npm install
-        run: npm install
-        
-      - name: bootstrap
-        run: npm run bootstrap
-        
-      - name: build
-        run: npm run build
-        
-      - name: Run tests
-        run: npm run test
-        
-      - name: echo inputs
-        run: echo ${{ github.event.inputs.package }} ${{ github.event.inputs.version }}
-        
-  publish:
-    runs-on: macos-latest
-    needs: test
-    environment: npm-publish
-    steps:
-      - name: Testing
-        run: echo 'this is where we publish'
-        
diff --git a/.github/workflows/releases.yml b/.github/workflows/releases.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6695f817
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/releases.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+name: Publish NPM
+
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      package:
+        required: true
+        description: 'core, artifact, cache, exec, github, glob, io, tool-cache'
+ 
+jobs:
+  test:
+    runs-on: macos-latest
+
+    steps:
+      - name: setup repo
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+
+      - name: verify package exists
+        run: ls packages/${{ github.event.inputs.package }}
+        
+      - name: npm install
+        run: npm install
+        
+      - name: bootstrap
+        run: npm run bootstrap
+        
+      - name: build
+        run: npm run build
+        
+      - name: test
+        run: npm run test
+
+      - name: pack
+        run: npm pack
+        working-directory: packages/${{ github.event.inputs.package }}
+        
+      - name: upload artifact
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
+        with:
+          name: ${{ github.event.inputs.package }}
+          path: packages/${{ github.event.inputs.package }}/*.tgz
+        
+  publish:
+    runs-on: macos-latest
+    needs: test
+    environment: npm-publish
+    steps:
+        
+      - name: download artifact
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v2
+        with:
+          name: ${{ github.event.inputs.package }}
+      
+      - name: publish
+        run: npm publish *.tgz --dry-run
+        env: 
+          NPM_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.TOKEN }}
+      
+      - name: notify slack on failure
+        if: failure()
+        run: |
+          curl -X POST -H 'Content-type: application/json' --data '{"text":":pb__failed: Failed to publish a new version of ${{ github.event.inputs.package }}"}' $SLACK_WEBHOOK
+        env: 
+          SLACK_WEBHOOK: ${{ secrets.SLACK }}
+        
+      - name: notify slack on success
+        if: success()
+        run: |
+          curl -X POST -H 'Content-type: application/json' --data '{"text":":dance: Successfully published a new version of ${{ github.event.inputs.package }}"}' $SLACK_WEBHOOK
+        env: 
+          SLACK_WEBHOOK: ${{ secrets.SLACK }}
+