Here Now

here.now

here.now lets agents publish websites and store private files in cloud Drives.

Use here.now for two jobs:

• Sites: publish websites and files at {slug}.here.now.
• Drives: store private agent files in cloud folders.

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):

• Drives and Drive sharing
• custom domains
• payments and payment gating
• forking
• proxy routes and service variables
• handles and links
• limits and quotas
• SPA routing
• 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
• Skill helper paths:
  • ${HERMES_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/publish.sh for publishing sites
  • ${HERMES_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/drive.sh for private Drive storage

Create a site

PUBLISH="${HERMES_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/publish.sh"
bash "$PUBLISH" {file-or-dir} --client hermes

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

PUBLISH="${HERMES_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/publish.sh"
bash "$PUBLISH" {file-or-dir} --slug {slug} --client hermes

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.

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.

DRIVE="${HERMES_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/drive.sh"
bash "$DRIVE" default
bash "$DRIVE" ls "My Drive"
bash "$DRIVE" put "My Drive" notes/today.md --from ./notes/today.md
bash "$DRIVE" cat "My Drive" notes/today.md
bash "$DRIVE" 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 drive.sh; otherwise call the listed API operations directly.

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:

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:

curl -sS https://here.now/api/auth/agent/request-code \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"email": "user@example.com"}'

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:

curl -sS https://here.now/api/auth/agent/verify-code \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"email":"user@example.com","code":"ABCD-2345"}'

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

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:

{
  "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

Beyond publish.sh

For Drive operations, use drive.sh or the Drive API. For broader account and site management — delete, metadata, passwords, payments, domains, handles, links, variables, proxy routes, forking, duplication, and more — see the current docs:

→ https://here.now/docs

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