HumanLayer Skills — Setup Guide
Source: humanlayer/skills (5 skills · 2.7K combined installs)
Repo: github.com/humanlayer/skills
Category: Agent Infrastructure / Human-in-the-Loop
First Seen: August 13, 2026
Quality Tier: 🟡 Beta core (show-me at 2.0K installs, trending on the hot leaderboard)
HumanLayer is one of the leading human-in-the-loop (HITL) tooling companies, and this skill pack encodes their patterns for designing agent systems where humans approve critical actions. show-me teaches agents to render work for human review; design-control-loop and build-iterated-agentic-loop encode the architecture patterns behind approval gates. Directly relevant to governance-layer design for multi-agent deployments.
Installation
# Full cluster
npx skills add humanlayer/skills
# Hermes: install individual skills by identifier
hermes skills install humanlayer/skills/show-me
hermes skills install humanlayer/skills/design-control-loop
Core Skills
| Skill |
Installs |
Use For |
show-me |
2.0K |
Rendering agent work for human review and approval |
improve-claude-md |
491 |
Improving agent memory/context files |
design-control-loop |
92 |
Designing human approval loops around agent actions |
build-iterated-agentic-loop |
74 |
Building iterated agent execution with checkpoints |
narrow-react-prop-types |
45 |
Tightening React props for HITL UI components |
Prerequisites
| Requirement |
Details |
| Any agent runtime |
Patterns are framework-agnostic |
| Node.js + npx |
For the skills.sh CLI install path |
| An approval UI or channel |
HumanLayer SDK, Slack, or custom review surface |
CorpusIQ Use Cases
| Use Case |
How |
| Commander approval gates |
design-control-loop patterns for the submit() review cycle |
| Customer deployments |
HITL review surfaces for client Hermes installations |
| Audit trails |
Human approval points as governance evidence |
Limitations / Verification
- Cluster is small and beta-tier overall —
show-me is the proven core
- HITL design needs a review surface to be meaningful; the skill supplies the pattern, not the UI
- Verify install:
npx skills list | grep -E 'show-me|control-loop'