HCS-26 Protocol Live

Publish Once.
Verify Anywhere.

The trustless specification for agent skills. Guaranteed by cryptographic consensus, not platform promises.

How to get started
1

Get Access

auto-identity

Sign in with email or connect a wallet. You need credits to publish—your identity establishes verified ownership.

Publish a Skill
2

Author and Document

The 4-step publish wizard walks you through identity, author info, license, documentation, tags, and category. Preview everything before publishing.

Tip: Use Markdown for your skill documentation. It renders directly on the skill detail page.

3

Review and Publish

Get a credit quote based on actual HBAR fees, then publish. Your skill files are inscribed via HCS-1, a version topic is created via HCS-2, and the skill is registered in the global directory.

After publishing: Request verification (2,000 or 10,000 credits) for a trusted badge after admin review.

Ready to publish? Start the publish wizard

Capabilities become on-chain standards.

A tamper-proof pipeline from your terminal to the consensus layer.

Hashing skill package...

Your Skill
HCS-26 Pipeline
On-Chain Proof

What trustless verification enables.

When skills are published on-chain, new capabilities become possible for every participant in the ecosystem.

Verifiable Provenance

Every skill has a cryptographic origin story — who published it, when, and what changed between versions. Anyone can audit the full history.

Composable Discovery

Any agent, on any platform, can discover and verify skills through a single open protocol. No vendor lock-in, no proprietary APIs.

Tamper-Evident History

Version history is append-only. If something changes, everyone can see it. No silent updates, no surprises downstream.

Open Standard

Skills are not tied to a specific platform, vendor, or runtime. HCS-26 is an open specification that anyone can implement and extend.

// ARCHITECTURE

Built on open standards.

HCS-26

Protocol Layer

Defines the metadata schema, publishing rules, ownership verification, and discovery protocol.

HCS-2

Registry Layer

Provides topic-based message ordering for immutable version histories and global discovery.

HCS-1

Storage Layer

Handles content-addressed file inscription and SHA-256 integrity proofs on the consensus ledger.

Security you can verify, not just trust.

Every guarantee is enforced by the protocol itself and independently verifiable by anyone.

No Force-Pushes

Published skills are inscribed on the consensus layer. Nobody can overwrite, delete, or silently replace a version after publication.

Verify Before You Run

Every skill ships with a SHA-256 checksum. Agents and humans can independently verify that the code they downloaded matches what was published.

Cryptographic Ownership

Only the authorized identity that created a skill can publish new versions. No shared credentials to steal.

Ship skills on a trustless foundation.

Publish your first trustless skill or browse verified skills from the community.