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04/03/2026, 3:08 PMAGENTS.md
- org/user-scoped skills in certain setups
- keyword-triggered skills for optional/on-demand activation
- My conclusion was:
### Answer
For OpenHands Cloud, there does not appear to be a documented personal setting to automatically load your own custom skills for every conversation across arbitrary repos.
What is supported:
- AGENTS.md at the repo root for always-on instructions in that repo
- organization-level .agents repo for defaults across repos in an organization
- keyword-triggered skills if you want reusable behavior that you can invoke consistently
### Practical takeaway
- If you want defaults for a specific repo: use AGENTS.md
- If you want defaults across many repos in one org: use org-level skills
- If you want a personal cross-repo workaround in Cloud: use a keyword-triggered skill and include that trigger in your prompts
### Docs I referenced
- Skills overview: https://docs.openhands.dev/overview/skills
- Repo/general skills: https://docs.openhands.dev/overview/skills/repo
- Organization and user skills: https://docs.openhands.dev/overview/skills/org
- Keyword-triggered skills: https://docs.openhands.dev/overview/skills/keyword
- Global/public skills: https://docs.openhands.dev/overview/skills/public
- Application settings: https://docs.openhands.dev/openhands/usage/settings/application-settings
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