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OpenHands is an open-source autonomous coding agent. Skills live under .openhands/skills; MCP config lives under ~/.openhands/config.json.

Paths

ResourcePath
Project skills.openhands/skills
Global skills~/.openhands/skills
MCP config~/.openhands/config.json
Audit search (project).openhands/skills, .agents/skills, .github/skills
Audit search (global)~/.openhands/skills, ~/.agents/skills

Skills example

gaal.yaml
skills:
  - source: anthropics/skills
    agents: [openhands]
    global: false

MCP example

gaal.yaml
mcps:
  - name: filesystem
    target: ~/.openhands/config.json
    inline:
      command: uvx
      args: [mcp-server-filesystem, ~/projects]

Configure skills

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