Hop/wiki/Getting-Started.md

Getting started

Use Hop from Codex Desktop

1. Install Hop.
2. Restart Codex Desktop if it was already open.
3. Select an existing Git project as the Codex working directory.
4. Ask Codex to make a normal change.

That is the full user workflow. Do not manually create .hop, route the prompt through a terminal, or tell Codex to work inside .hop/workspaces. The Hop skill does that coordination for the agent.

The skill is eligible for implicit activation on every repository task. Mention $hop in the task if you want deterministic explicit activation.

What happens on the first task

Before reading or changing project files, the agent runs hop begin. Hop then:

• initializes local state without moving the Git branch or index;
• stores the prompt after redacting detected credentials;
• creates an isolated attempt workspace;
• returns the state and workspace to the agent; and
• keeps all project-changing work inside that workspace.

The agent validates, proposes, and lands the result. A successful hop land updates the visible project folder to the accepted tree.

Confirm the result

From the selected project directory:

hop status
hop history
hop doctor

A normal Desktop result reports Root: synchronized.

Ask for review before landing

Automatic landing is the default because the original task authorizes the local code change. To stop at a proposal, say one of the following in the task:

• review first
• proposal only
• do not land

Use another agent runtime

Install the embedded skill into that runtime's skills directory:

hop skill install --path /path/to/agent/skills --force

Controllers that can persist a prompt before model delivery should use hop start, hop env, and hop prompt; see Agent workflow.