here.now

here.now lets agents publish websites and files to live URLs in seconds. Publish HTML, documents, images, PDFs, videos, and static files to live URLs at {slug}.here.now or custom domains. Use when asked to "publish this", "host this", "deploy this", "share this on the web", "make a website", "put this online", "create a webpage", "generate a URL", "build a chatbot", "password protect this site", "make this site private", or "share this site with only certain people". here.now also includes Drives, private cloud folders where agents can store files, share them with other agents, and continue across sessions and tools — use when asked to "save this to my Drive", "store this for later", "write this to cloud storage", or "share a folder with another agent".

Skill version: 1.17.0

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 Drives — private cloud folders for agent files (see "Use a Drive" 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)
• 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

bash

./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

bash

./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.

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.

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.

bash

./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:

bash

./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.

API key storage

The publish script reads the API key from these sources (first match wins):

1. --api-key {key} flag (CI/scripting only — avoid in interactive use)
2. $HERENOW_API_KEY environment variable
3. ~/.herenow/credentials file (recommended for agents)

To store a key, write it to the credentials file:

bash

mkdir -p ~/.herenow && echo "{API_KEY}" > ~/.herenow/credentials && chmod 600 ~/.herenow/credentials

IMPORTANT: After receiving an API key, save it immediately — run the command above yourself. Do not ask the user to run it manually. Avoid passing the key via CLI flags (e.g. --api-key) in interactive sessions; the credentials file is the preferred storage method.

Never commit credentials or local state files (~/.herenow/credentials, .herenow/state.json) to source control.

Getting an API key

To upgrade from anonymous (24h) to permanent sites:

1. Ask the user for their email address.
2. Request a one-time sign-in code:

bash

curl -sS https://here.now/api/auth/agent/request-code \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"email": "[e-mail]"}'

3. Tell the user: "Check your inbox for a sign-in code from here.now and paste it here."
4. Verify the code and get the API key:

bash

curl -sS https://here.now/api/auth/agent/verify-code \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"email":"[e-mail]","code":"ABCD-2345"}'

5. Save the returned apiKey yourself (do not ask the user to do this):

bash

mkdir -p ~/.herenow && echo "{API_KEY}" > ~/.herenow/credentials && chmod 600 ~/.herenow/credentials

State file

After every site create/update, the script writes to .herenow/state.json in the working directory:

json

{
  "publishes": {
    "bright-canvas-a7k2": {
      "siteUrl": "https://bright-canvas-a7k2.here.now/",
      "claimToken": "abc123",
      "claimUrl": "https://here.now/claim?slug=bright-canvas-a7k2&token=abc123",
      "expiresAt": "2026-02-18T01:00:00.000Z"
    }
  }
}

Before creating or updating sites, you may check this file to find prior slugs. Treat .herenow/state.json as internal cache only. Never present this local file path as a URL, and never use it as source of truth for auth mode, expiry, or claim URL.

What to tell the user

For published sites:

• Always share the siteUrl from the current script run.
• Read and follow publish_result.* lines from script stderr to determine auth mode.
• When publish_result.auth_mode=authenticated: tell the user the site is permanent and saved to their account. No claim URL is needed.
• When publish_result.auth_mode=anonymous: tell the user the site expires in 24 hours. Share the claim URL (if publish_result.claim_url is non-empty and starts with https://) so they can keep it permanently. Warn that claim tokens are only returned once and cannot be recovered.
• Never tell the user to inspect .herenow/state.json for claim URLs or auth status.

For Drives:

• Do not describe Drive files as public URLs.
• Tell the user Drive contents are private unless shared with a scoped token.
• When sharing access with another agent, prefer a scoped token with a narrow pathPrefix and short TTL.

publish.sh options

Flag	Description
--slug {slug}	Update an existing site instead of creating
--claim-token {token}	Override claim token for anonymous updates
--title {text}	Viewer title (non-HTML sites)
--description {text}	Viewer description
--ttl {seconds}	Set expiry (authenticated only)
--client {name}	Agent name for attribution (e.g. cursor)
--base-url {url}	API base URL (default: https://here.now)
--allow-nonherenow-base-url	Allow sending auth to non-default --base-url
--api-key {key}	API key override (prefer credentials file)
--spa	Enable SPA routing (serve index.html for unknown paths)

Beyond publish.sh

For Drive operations, use ./scripts/drive.sh or the Drive API. For broader account and Site management — Site Data, search, analytics, profiles, delete, metadata, access control, domains, variables, proxy routes, duplication, and more — see the current docs:

→ https://here.now/docs

Full docs: https://here.now/docs