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Runs freely. No prompt, no pause.
Product·Skills & Extensions
An agent is markdown at baseline — plus its tools, model, and a per-capability permission tree. A grant decides what it reaches: its machine, connectors, secrets, skills. A skill encodes how the company does one job. Both are files in your repo. Both are reviewed like code.
What an agent is
An agent has exactly two homes. The markdown file carries how it thinks — prompt, mode, model, permission tree. The grant block carries what it may touch. Nothing about an agent lives in a database you cannot read.
Scoped reach
The grant covers the whole surface, not just tools: which machine it boots, which connectors and channels it may call, which secrets it may receive, which skills it may invoke. An agent with no grants gets none of it. You grant explicitly, or the answer is no — and on top of that sits a ceiling nothing in the config can lift.
Runs freely. No prompt, no pause.
Pauses for a human. The session waits for your answer.
Blocked outright. Not a warning — a wall.
The grant at session start is what the agent declares, intersected with the role of whoever launched it. Grant it everything and it still gets exactly your own permissions — no more, on any path.
Account-level administration — members, billing, creating projects — is outside the set an agent can hold. There is no value you can write in a file that turns that on.
The block lists secrets by identifier, never values. A session receives only the intersection of that grant and the role of whoever started it.
An agent can edit the grant file — it is a file. The edit only applies after a person merges the change request, and even then the ceiling still holds.
What a skill is
A skill is a directory with a SKILL.md at its root. Frontmatter names it and says when to reach for it; the body is the procedure. Every session can load it, so the thing you explained to one agent in March is still true for every agent in November.
An agent decides whether to load a skill from its name and description alone. Write it like the things a person would actually say.
Scripts and assets ship with the instruction, so a procedure does not rot away from the thing it drives.
The skills grant on an agent controls which skills it may load. Presence in the repo is not permission.
Everything is files
Agents and skills are not rows in a table you cannot see. They are markdown in the repo the session clones, so changing your workforce is the same act as changing your code — and it gets the same review.
Bring a skill in
What arrives is files in your repo — not a dependency you rent. No lockfile, no version pin, no automatic update. That is deliberate.
Browse a template, a skill, or another project’s agent files. Nothing loads by default.
A session reads the source and merges what fits into your own files — rather than dropping a package and hoping.
If the item needs a key or a connected app, you get a fill-in link in the same turn. You never paste a credential into chat. The agent never sees the value.
The session opens a change request. You read which files are about to join the company, and merge when you are happy. Nothing lands unreviewed.
Plugins & MCP
Plugins add new capabilities to Neuro OS itself — integrations, custom workflows, UI panels. MCP servers give agents live tools: your database, your CRM, your observability stack. Agents discover and use them like any other tool.
Adapters
The runtimes that power your agents — Claude, Codex, Hermes and more, on your own keys — get their own home so this page can stay about what you build on top. Head there to wire up an adapter and pick the model behind each role.
“Institutional knowledge shouldn’t live in one person’s head. Write the procedure down once as a skill — files in the repo, deny by default, and nothing joins main without a yes.”
Product · Adapters
Wire Claude, Codex, and Hermes into the org chart on your keys.
Learn more →Product · Org Chart
Roles, reporting lines, and real delegation for humans and agents.
Learn more →Product · Heartbeats
Wakes, watchdogs, and overnight progress between your prompts.
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