Skills

Skills are installed under:

~/.hooman/skills

At runtime, Hooman uses the Strands AgentSkills plugin to load:

• bundled built-in skills shipped with Hooman (e.g. hooman-coding, hooman-config, hooman-mcp, hooman-channels, hooman-skills)
• user-installed skills under ~/.hooman/skills

The local skills folder is treated as a parent directory of skill subdirectories, where each installed skill lives in its own folder containing a SKILL.md.

When a session starts, the plugin injects available skill metadata into the system prompt and exposes the skills tool so the model can activate a skill and load its full instructions on demand.

Managing skills

The /config workflow can:

• search the public skills catalog
• install a skill from a source string, repo, URL, or local path
• refresh installed skills
• remove installed skills with confirmation

Bundled prompt harness

Independent of skills, Hooman ships toggleable harness prompt sections (prompts.behaviour, prompts.communication, prompts.execution, prompts.guardrails in config.json). Coding-specific guidance ships as the built-in hooman-coding skill rather than a hardcoded prompt section, so it can be updated or disabled like any other skill.