diff --git a/.gitea/workflows/manual_npm_publish.yml b/.gitea/workflows/manual_npm_publish.yml
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+name: Manual npm publish 
+
+# Controls when the action will run. Workflow runs when manually triggered using the UI
+# or API.
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+jobs:
+  npm_publish:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        node-version: [ 16.x ]
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+      - name: Use Node.js ${{ matrix.node-version }}
+        uses: actions/setup-node@v3
+        with:
+          node-version: ${{ matrix.node-version }}
+          registry-url: 'https://npm.pkg.github.com'
+      - run: yarn
+        env:
+          NODE_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.PAT_PACKAGES }}
+      - name: Run yarn build
+        env:
+          NODE_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.PAT_PACKAGES }}
+        run: |
+          yarn build
+      - name: Configure git.vdb.to npm registry
+        run: |
+          npm config set @cerc-io:registry https://git.vdb.to/api/packages/cerc-io/npm/
+      - name: Authenticate to git.vdb.to registry
+        run: |
+          npm config set -- '//git.vdb.to/api/packages/cerc-io/npm/:_authToken' "${{ secrets.GITEA_PUBLISH_TOKEN }}"
+      - name: npm publish
+        run: npm publish
+    
diff --git a/.gitea/workflows/test.yml b/.gitea/workflows/test.yml
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+name: Tests
+on:
+  pull_request:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - main
+      - release/**
+      - dboreham/**
+
+jobs:
+  sdk_tests:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - name: Checkout laconicd
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+        with:
+          path: "./laconicd/"
+          repository: cerc-io/laconicd
+          fetch-depth: 0
+          ref: main
+      - name: Environment
+        run: ls -tlh && env
+      - name: build registry-cli container
+        run: docker build -t cerc/laconic-registry-cli:local-test --build-arg CERC_NPM_URL=https://git.vdb.to/api/packages/cerc-io/npm/ --build-arg CERC_NPM_AUTH_TOKEN="${{ secrets.GITEA_PUBLISH_TOKEN }}" .
+      - name: build containers scripts
+        working-directory: laconicd/tests/sdk_tests
+        run: ./build-laconicd-container.sh
+      - name: start laconicd container
+        working-directory: laconicd/tests/sdk_tests
+        run: docker compose up laconicd -d
+
+      - name: Run registry-cli demo commands in registry-cli container
+        run : ls -tla
+      - name: stop containers
+        working-directory: laconicd/tests/sdk_tests
+        run: docker compose down
+