Agent integrations
With shell access, an agent can use the CLI directly. Complete Install,
make the intended hack executable available on the agent's PATH, and give it this
version's documentation index or full corpus.
Plugins and MCP are optional additions. They do not install Hack or prepare its
runtime.
v5 retired automatic instruction injection. Hack no longer writes AGENTS.md or
CLAUDE.md sections, Cursor rules, session hooks or global skill copies, and the
old hack setup sync and hack agent prime paths refuse with a retirement notice.
Existing customized files are left alone. Guidance now arrives through the
plugin below, which the client's own plugin manager installs and updates.
The hack plugin
The hack plugin ships eight skills and nothing else: no hooks, no rules, no MCP
server.
| Skill | Purpose |
|---|---|
| hack-cli | Everyday workflows: services, URLs, logs, exec and workspaces |
| hack-branches | Parallel branch instances and aliases |
| hack-env | Env layers and value-safe configuration changes |
| hack-diagnose | Read-first diagnosis and the error-code reference |
| hack-init | Project onboarding through the CLI's onboarding prompt |
| hack-install | Installation and executable or channel selection |
| hack-remote | Prepare a project on another host or in a cloud environment |
| hack-feedback | Report a Hack problem with redacted evidence |
Install it from this repository's marketplace:
# Codex
codex plugin marketplace add hack-dance/hack
codex plugin add hack@hack-dance
# Claude Code
claude plugin marketplace add hack-dance/hack --sparse .claude-plugin plugins/hack plugins/hack-mcp
claude plugin install hack@hack-danceIn Cursor, install Hack from Customize. The plugin finds hack on the client's
PATH; during the prerelease that is whichever executable you put there. The
plugin README
has per-client notes. A plugin registered in a client is not proof that it loaded;
check the client's plugin list.
The separate hack-mcp plugin
Clients without shell access can add hack-mcp. It declares one stdio server,
hack mcp serve, and no skills. Use one Hack MCP registration per client, either
this plugin or a single hack mcp install entry, never both. The
MCP tools and MCP logs
references describe the tool surface and its finite log cutoffs.
Project onboarding
hack agent onboard prints an onboarding prompt for an existing project, and
hack init --with claude|codex hands a new project's setup to an agent. Both
describe the work to do; neither installs skills or edits client configuration.
See Explicit agent setup.