# ghost-exo

Routes exo workflow requests into build, improve, and debug recipes through an exo MCP server connection.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 947 installs · ★ 425
- Author: ghostsecurity
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/ghostsecurity/skills/tree/HEAD/plugins/exo/skills/exo/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-09-28
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/ghost-exo

## What it does

This skill acts as a front door for exo agent workflows, sorting each prompt into BUILD, IMPROVE, or DEBUG intents. The build intent gathers requirements through structured questions, scaffolds resources according to their dependencies, and runs an initial test. The improve recipe monitors recent workflow runs and applies changes behind explicit confirmation gates, while the debug intent walks the dependency graph to isolate why a given run failed.

Operations rely on an exo MCP server alongside `scripts/exo-skill.py` for direct REST requests. The script pulls credentials from `EXO_API_URL`, `EXO_API_KEY`, and `EXO_WORKSPACE_ID`, or falls back to an environment profile stored under `${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-~/.config}/exo/<name>.env`.

When multiple exo connections exist, the skill pauses and insists on selecting the target workspace before proceeding. Switching connections in the middle of a recipe is strictly prevented to avoid overwriting state in the wrong workspace.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add ghostsecurity/skills --skill ghost-exo -a claude-code
```
```bash
npx skills add ghostsecurity/skills --skill exo -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/exo/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/exo/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add ghostsecurity/skills --skill exo -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/exo/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add ghostsecurity/skills --skill exo -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/exo/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install ghostsecurity/skills exo
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/exo/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add ghostsecurity/skills --skill exo -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/ghostsecurity/skills --path plugins/exo/skills/exo
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/exo/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add ghostsecurity/skills --skill exo -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/ghostsecurity/skills/tree/HEAD/plugins/exo/skills/exo/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- scaffold a complete exo workflow from an idea or agent template
- diagnose a failed run by inspecting its execution graph
- optimize existing workflows based on recent telemetry and metrics
- verify workspace permissions via the exo MCP whoami tool

## Example prompts
- Build a new exo workflow from the security audit agent template
- Debug run_id 8f3a1b to figure out why the exo step failed
- Improve the performance of our existing exo workflow based on recent runs

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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---
name: "ghost-exo"
description: The single interface for building, improving, and debugging exo workflows. Routes to one of three intents. BUILD takes a rough idea, or an agent template slug from the ghostsecurity.ai catalog, through interrogation, assessment, resource creation in dependency order, and one manual run, then hands off. IMPROVE runs the observe-and-iterate loop over recent runs, proposing and applying changes behind two gates. DEBUG diagnoses one failed or misbehaving run by walking the dependency graph of everything it touched. Use whenever the user wants to create a new exo workflow, iterate on or improve an existing one, or find out why a specific run failed.
license: apache-2.0
metadata:
  version: 1.2.0
---

# exo

One front door for the exo workflow lifecycle. This skill is a router. It classifies the request into one of three intents, loads the shared substrate, then loads the matching intent recipe and follows it.

## Prerequisites

Exo is an agent workflow platform. Every intent drives it through an exo MCP server.

## Pick the connection

Several exo connections coexist normally, one per workspace, sometimes several on one deployment. Enumerate the exo MCP servers this session has before doing anything else.

With exactly one, use it. With more than one, ask which through the structured question tool and stop until the user answers, because a wrong guess writes to the wrong workspace. Do not switch connections partway through an intent. Start over if the target changes.

Call `whoami` on the chosen server. It confirms the connection and returns the workspace ID. Report that ID so the user can see which workspace they are about to change. If no exo MCP tools are present or `whoami` fails, read `resources/bootstrap.md` and follow it, then call `whoami` again. Do not classify an intent until it succeeds.

`scripts/exo-skill.py` reaches the same workspace over REST, and it has to reach the same one. It reads `EXO_API_URL`, `EXO_API_KEY`, and `EXO_WORKSPACE_ID` from the process environment, falling back to the profile named by `--profile`, which is the file `${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-~/.config}/exo/<name>.env`. Pass `--profile` with the name of the MCP server you chose on every call, so the two cannot point at different workspaces.

## Always read first

Read `resources/common.md`. It holds the shared substrate every intent uses: the run-walking read primitives, the worker capability rules that decide which tools a skill may use and how it declares them, the DTO discovery discipline, the resource write primitives, the runtime contract for output, metrics, completion, and memory that every step runs under, the unprobeable nodes, and the note on why the improve intent reads the debug recipe inline rather than invoking it.

## Classify the intent

| If the request is about | Intent | Read |
|---|---|---|
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