Holochain Agent Skills is a set of instructions that AI coding agents load when a developer builds a Holochain app. It is built to the Agent Skills Open Standard, so the same set works in Claude Code, opencode, GitHub Copilot, Cursor and Gemini CLI. On 7 November 2026, @Soushi888 merged a change in which 5 source audits of the whole set were applied.
A developer who asks one of those agents for Holochain code now gets guidance checked against the 0.7.1 crate sources. The merged change corrects 137 rows against source. It also compiles all 134 Rust code blocks outside the example app against 0.7.1, and fixes the 24 that should have compiled and did not. The change serves Holochain hApp developers who use compatible AI coding agents.
Holochain Agent Skills ports its guidance to Holochain 0.7.1
The audits found 0.6-era code shapes in the guidance and a conductor configuration that would not parse. They also found about 10 test calls and several command-line commands that do not exist in 0.7.1. The change corrects them against source. A validator now rejects 12 new forbidden patterns in code blocks, and each one was proven by a seeded defect.
Map Holons lets a host session reuse descriptors built in the guest
Map Holons provides the foundational layer of the Memetic Activation Platform, with storage, retrieval and querying of self-describing, active holons. The project is still in early proof-of-concept stages. Pull request #864, by @evomimic and merged on 10 November 2026, makes a commit response carry saved descriptor products built in the guest, so later commits in the same host session can reuse them.
The author's one matched trial, run in-process against a conductor, cut saved builds from 5 to zero. A rejected commit fell from 616.930 ms to 502.808 ms, and a complete commit fell from 463.702 ms to 417.448 ms. These are the author's workload-specific results from that one trial.
Your Own AI moves its records to the 0.7.1 line while 0.6 keeps running
Your Own AI is a desktop app that runs AI models privately on the user's computer, and keeps their records on the user's own devices. Pull request #12, by @solarpunked, merged on 7 November 2026, carries those records from the 0.6.1 line to the 0.7.1 line while both lines run. A record's id is its v1 action hash, so every record that exists today keeps its id.
Every record is written to 0.6 first and then to 0.7 in the background, and a write that misses is carried by the next pass. A watch checks both lines every 30 s. The watch restarts the session when the 0.6 conductor dies, and re-attaches the 0.7 conductor when it dies. The author's test run passed 388 unit tests with cargo test --lib.
What a builder has to change
The Holochain Agent Skills port pins hdk =0.7.1, hdi =0.8.1 and
@holochain/client 0.21.1. The author states that no Kangaroo build was made, and no app was installed under source chain restore or with membrane proofs from hc client.