Getting Started

Install the Hortora garden skills and capture your first entry.

Prerequisites

Hortora garden skills run inside Claude Code — Anthropic's CLI for Claude. You'll need:

Claude Code installed and authenticated
macOS or Linux

Install from the marketplace

In any Claude Code session, give it the Hortora marketplace URL. Claude Code discovers and installs the skills automatically.

        # in any Claude Code session

        > /install-skills https://github.com/Hortora/soredium

Tip: Claude Code places skills in ~/.claude/skills/ and makes them immediately available in any session — no further setup needed.

Capture your first entry

During your next Claude Code session, when something non-obvious surfaces — a bug that took an hour to find, a technique worth remembering — Claude will proactively offer to capture it. You can also trigger it directly at any time:

        # In any Claude Code session — invoke forage

        > /forage

Once invoked, tell Claude what you want to capture — say "CAPTURE this" or describe the entry. Claude will ask for the technology, type (gotcha, technique, or undocumented behaviour), and a description.

Local mode (default)

Forage writes a submission file to ~/.hortora/garden/submissions/. Run /harvest in a dedicated session to validate and integrate it into your local garden clone. Changes commit to git automatically.

GitHub mode

If your garden is the Hortora/garden repository, forage opens a GitHub issue to claim a GE-ID and submits a pull request. CI validates the entry automatically — on merge, indexes update with no manual step.

Tip: Both modes use the same garden repository and entry format. Start local, push to GitHub when ready — no migration needed.