Here Now

here.now

Skill version: 1.18.0

here.now lets agents publish websites and files to live URLs in seconds.

The core primitive is a Site: publish a file or folder and get a live URL at {slug}.here.now or a custom domain. Every Site has access control: public link (default), password, or restricted invite-only access.

here.now also includes workspaces — shared team accounts where Sites belong to the team and serve at {label}.{workspace}.here.now (see "Publish to a workspace" below).

To install or update (recommended): npx skills add heredotnow/skill --skill here-now -g

For repo-pinned/project-local installs, run the same command without -g.

Current docs

Before answering questions about here.now capabilities, features, or workflows, read the current docs:

→ https://here.now/docs

Read the docs:

• at the first here.now-related interaction in a conversation
• any time the user asks how to do something
• any time the user asks what is possible, supported, or recommended
• before telling the user a feature is unsupported

Topics that require current docs (do not rely on local skill text alone):

• Site access control (passwords and restricted access)
• workspaces (team accounts, membership, label URLs)
• Drives and Drive sharing
• custom domains
• Site Data
• public profiles
• proxy routes and service variables
• limits and quotas
• SPA routing
• owner Site search
• Site analytics
• error handling and remediation
• feature availability

If docs and live API behavior disagree, trust the live API behavior.

If the docs fetch fails or times out, continue with the local skill and live API/script output. Prefer live API behavior for active operations.

Requirements

• Required binaries: curl, file, jq
• Optional environment variable: $HERENOW_API_KEY
• Optional Drive token variable: $HERENOW_DRIVE_TOKEN
• Optional credentials file: ~/.herenow/credentials
• Bundled helpers:
  • ./scripts/publish.sh for publishing sites
  • ./scripts/drive.sh for private Drive storage

Create a site

./scripts/publish.sh {file-or-dir}

Outputs the live URL (e.g. https://bright-canvas-a7k2.here.now/).

Under the hood this is a three-step flow: create/update -> upload files -> finalize. A site is not live until finalize succeeds.

Without an API key this creates an anonymous site that expires in 24 hours. With a saved API key, the site is permanent.

File structure: For HTML sites, place index.html at the root of the directory you publish, not inside a subdirectory. The directory's contents become the site root. For example, publish my-site/ where my-site/index.html exists — don't publish a parent folder that contains my-site/.

You can also publish raw files without any HTML. Single files get a rich auto-viewer (images, PDF, video, audio). Multiple files get an auto-generated directory listing with folder navigation and an image gallery.

Update an existing site

./scripts/publish.sh {file-or-dir} --slug {slug}

The script auto-loads the claimToken from .herenow/state.json when updating anonymous sites. Pass --claim-token {token} to override.

Authenticated updates require a saved API key.

Signed-in users also have public profiles. Agents can help users show or hide Sites on their profile and manage profile settings through the API documented at https://here.now/docs#profile.

Publish to a workspace

Workspaces are shared team accounts: Sites published into one belong to the team, not the publishing member, and get a memorable URL at {label}.{workspace}.here.now.

./scripts/publish.sh {file-or-dir} --workspace {subdomain}

Requires a saved API key and membership in the workspace. List the user's workspaces (and valid subdomains) with GET /api/v1/accounts. Workspace Sites default to member-only access; the script reports the team URL as publish_result.account_url.

For everything else — creating workspaces, invites and auto-join, workspace domains and variables, label renames — read the current docs:

→ https://here.now/docs#workspaces

Site access control

A Site uses one access mode at a time:

• anyone_with_link (default): anyone with the URL can view.
• password: visitors must enter a shared password.
• restricted: invite-only; only verified email addresses or email domains the owner allows can view.

Workspace-owned Sites use a different set of modes: account_members (the default — visitors sign in and must be workspace members) or public, optionally with a password. restricted allowlists are personal-Site-only and return 409 workspace_access_mode_unsupported on workspace Sites. See https://here.now/docs#workspace-access.

Manage access with GET/PATCH /api/v1/publish/{slug}/access (passwords via the metadata endpoint). Restricted access requires a claimed Site. The PATCH replaces the full allowlists — read, merge, then write. Before working with access control, read the current docs:

→ https://here.now/docs#access-control

Use a Drive

Use a Drive when the user wants private cloud storage for agent files: documents, context, memory, plans, assets, media, research, code, and anything else that should persist without being published as a website.

Every signed-in account has a default Drive named My Drive.

./scripts/drive.sh default
./scripts/drive.sh ls My Drive
./scripts/drive.sh put My Drive notes/today.md --from ./notes/today.md
./scripts/drive.sh cat My Drive notes/today.md
./scripts/drive.sh share My Drive --perms write --prefix notes/ --ttl 7d

Use scoped Drive tokens for agent-to-agent handoff. If you receive a herenow_drive share block, use its token as Authorization: Bearer <token> against api_base, respect pathPrefix when present, and preserve ETags on writes. A pathPrefix of null means full-Drive access. If the skill is available, prefer ./scripts/drive.sh; otherwise call the listed API operations directly.

Client attribution

Pass --client so here.now can track reliability by agent:

./scripts/publish.sh {file-or-dir} --client cursor

This sends X-HereNow-Client: cursor/publish-sh on publish API calls. If omitted, the script sends a fallback value.