diff --git a/build.sbt b/build.sbt
index 6c42256..3415d52 100644
--- a/build.sbt
+++ b/build.sbt
@@ -43,3 +43,6 @@ lazy val core =
       name := "scalacheck-derived",
       description := "A library providing automatic derivation of scalacheck Arbitrary instances for Scala 3."
     )
+
+// do not publish root project
+publish / skip := true