setup SKILL.md skillB
setup from plastic-labs/claude-honcho is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add plastic-labs/claude-honcho/setup@git:20260723.eeaf5ddPins git:20260723.eeaf5dd in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- B, 16 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- plastic-labs/claude-honcho
- Path
plugins/honcho/skills/setup/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20260723.eeaf5dd, committed Jul 23, 2026
- First version recorded
- Mar 2, 2026
- Size
- 2,403 bytes
- Repository stars
- 77
- License
- MIT
First-time Honcho configuration -- set API key, validate connection, create config.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Honcho Setup
Walk the user through first-time Honcho configuration so persistent memory works in Claude Code.
## Steps
### 1. Validate the connection
Run the setup runner. It's a committed script (`src/skills/setup-runner.ts`) that
checks for an API key (env var, then `~/.honcho/config.json`), validates the
connection, writes the config, and installs the memory statusLine:
```bash
bun run "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/src/skills/setup-runner.ts"
```
If `CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT` isn't set, the plugin lives here (find the version
directory inside and run the runner from there):
```bash
echo "$HOME/.claude/plugins/cache/honcho/honcho"
```
**If the runner reports "No API key found"**, it prints how to set one and exits.
Relay that to the user:
- Get a free key at https://app.honcho.dev
- **macOS / Linux:** add to `~/.zshrc` (or `~/.bashrc`): `export HONCHO_API_KEY="your-key-here"`
- **Windows (PowerShell):** `setx HONCHO_API_KEY "your-key-here"`
- Then restart Claude Code and run `/honcho:setup` again.
Do NOT ask the user to paste their key into the chat — it must be set as an
environment variable outside Claude Code. Stop here and wait for them to come back.
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add plastic-labs/claude-honcho/setup@sha256:9e538461d84d8345The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260723.eeaf5dd, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Mar 2, 2026 and Jul 23, 2026, about one every 48 days.
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| git:20260723.eeaf5dd latest | 2026-07-23 | eeaf5dd | 2,403 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260602.208d00e | 2026-06-02 | 208d00e | 2,980 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260324.54427e8 | 2026-03-24 | 54427e8 | 2,596 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260302.15579b2 | 2026-03-02 | 15579b2 | 1,860 B | B | view |
Audit of the latest version
- fail: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (2403 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Starting a new one? Use a template for SKILL.md on mdpantry, which passes every one of these checks and says what to change in it.
Source
plastic-labs/claude-honcho · 77 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
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Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.
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