diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 7766edd6c..c64a3c85c 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
     "release": "./scripts/release.mjs",
     "prepack": "clean-package",
     "postpack": "clean-package restore",
-    "publish-action": "./scripts/publish-action.mjs",
+    "publish-action": "./scripts/publishAction.mjs",
     "trace": "./dist/bin.js trace",
     "trim-stats": "./dist/bin.js trim-stats-file",
     "storybook": "storybook dev -p 9009",
diff --git a/scripts/publish-action.mjs b/scripts/publishAction.mjs
similarity index 87%
rename from scripts/publish-action.mjs
rename to scripts/publishAction.mjs
index da1d9f058..4a9b78725 100755
--- a/scripts/publish-action.mjs
+++ b/scripts/publishAction.mjs
@@ -51,31 +51,11 @@ const publishAction = async ({ major, version, repo }) => {
   return cleanup();
 };
 
-/**
- * Generally, this script is invoked by auto's `afterShipIt` hook.
- *
- * For manual (local) use:
- *   yarn publish-action {context} [--dry-run]
- *   e.g. yarn publish-action canary
- *   or   yarn publish-action latest --dry-run
- *
- * Make sure to build the action before publishing manually.
- */
-(async () => {
-  const { stdout: status } = await $`git status --porcelain`;
-  if (status) {
-    console.error(`❗️ Working directory is not clean:\n${status}`);
-    return;
-  }
-
-  let context, version;
-  if (['canary', 'next', 'latest'].includes(process.argv[2])) {
-    const pkg = JSON.parse(readFileSync('package.json', 'utf8'));
-    context = process.argv[2];
-    version = pkg.version;
-    console.info(`📌 Using context arg: ${context}`);
-    console.info(`📌 Using package.json version: ${version}`);
-  }
+export async function main(context) {
+  const pkg = JSON.parse(readFileSync('package.json', 'utf8'));
+  const version = pkg.version;
+  console.info(`📌 Using context arg: ${context}`);
+  console.info(`📌 Using package.json version: ${version}`);
 
   const [, major, minor, patch] = version.match(/^(\d+)\.(\d+)\.(\d+)-*(\w+)?/) || [];
   if (!major || !minor || !patch) {
@@ -96,4 +76,23 @@ const publishAction = async ({ major, version, repo }) => {
     default:
       console.error(`❗️ Unknown context: ${context}`);
   }
-})();
+}
+
+/**
+ * For manual (local) use:
+ *   yarn publish-action {context} [--dry-run]
+ *   e.g. yarn publish-action canary
+ *   or   yarn publish-action latest --dry-run
+ *
+ * Make sure to build the action before publishing manually.
+ */
+// eslint-disable-next-line unicorn/prefer-module
+if (require.main === module) {
+  const { stdout: status } = await $`git status --porcelain`;
+  if (status) {
+    console.error(`❗️ Working directory is not clean:\n${status}`);
+    process.exit(1);
+  }
+
+  main(process.argv[2]);
+}
diff --git a/scripts/release.mjs b/scripts/release.mjs
index 4fe00ec32..db8a3f0d2 100755
--- a/scripts/release.mjs
+++ b/scripts/release.mjs
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 import { $ } from 'execa';
 
+import { main as publishAction } from './publishAction.mjs';
+
 async function main() {
   const { stdout: status } = await $`git status --porcelain`;
   if (status) {
@@ -13,7 +15,7 @@ async function main() {
   await $({ stdout: 'inherit', stderr: 'inherit' })`auto shipit`;
 
   if (process.env.GITHUB_REF === 'main') {
-    await $({ stdout: 'inherit', stderr: 'inherit' })`yarn publish-action latest`;
+    await publishAction('latest');
   } else {
     console.info('Skipping automatic publish of action-canary.');
     console.info('Run `yarn publish-action canary` to publish a canary action.');