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Toolbox for driving HumanLayer from the CLI - log in, pick a host, launch tasks in their own worktrees, launch sessions, list tasks and their PRs, and copy, move, or upload task artifacts.

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Install
$ npx -y skills add humanlayer/humanlayer --skill orchestrate --agent claude-code

How it fires

How this skill gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.

  • Fires itselfAuto-invocation. Claude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.Auto-invocation is when the right skill fires by itself at the right moment, driven by a FLOW.md router and a hook, instead of you invoking it by name. It is the difference between a skill being installed and a skill actually getting used.Read the full definition →
  • You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
  • Slash command/orchestrate

Context preview

The summary Claude sees to decide when to auto-load this skill.

Toolbox for driving HumanLayer from the CLI - log in, pick a host, launch tasks in their own worktrees, launch sessions, list tasks and their PRs, and copy, move, or upload task artifacts.

SKILL.md

orchestrate.SKILL.md
name: orchestrate
description: Toolbox for driving HumanLayer from the CLI - log in, pick a host, launch tasks in their own worktrees, launch sessions, list tasks and their PRs, and copy, move, or upload task artifacts.

Find the job, read its reference, run the commands, and report the result in a line or two.

| Job | Reference | | --- | --- | | Log in | [login.md](references/login.md) | | Find a host | [hosts.md](references/hosts.md) | | Launch a task | [launch-task.md](references/launch-task.md) | | Turn auto-advance between phases on or off | [auto-advance.md](references/auto-advance.md) | | Launch a session | [launch-session.md](references/launch-session.md) | | List tasks and statuses | [list-tasks.md](references/list-tasks.md) | | Find a task's PR | [task-prs.md](references/task-prs.md) | | Upload, copy, move, or delete artifacts | [managing-artifacts-and-files.md](references/managing-artifacts-and-files.md) |

Rules:

  • Every task gets its own worktree. Use an existing folder only when the user asks.
  • Use one environment flag everywhere: none for production, `--beta`, or `--dev`. The references use `--dev`.
  • On `Not logged in`, follow login.md and retry.
  • Save large results to a file before reading them with `jq`.
  • On an unknown command or flag, run `humanlayer --dev api <group> <command> --help`.
Ships withhumanlayer

HumanLayer runs coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Pi) on your machines and lets your team steer them from one place: tasks, sessions, plans, and reviews, synced between a desktop app, a web app, and a daemon on each host. This repo holds all of it.

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