--- title: "Digital Human Store: install and update" description: "Find Digital Humans and skills others built in the Halo Store, fill in a few settings and put them to work; plus updates, MCP servers and sharing your own." type: "how-to" audience: ["office"] related: ["digital-humans/create", "digital-humans/capabilities", "advanced/private-store", "developers/store-publishing"] lang: "en" canonical: "https://hello-halo.cc/docs/en/digital-humans/store.html" last_updated: "2026-10-19T00:11:17+08:00" source: "Halo 3.0.4 docs" --- # Store Find Digital Humans and skills others built in the Halo Store, fill in a few settings and put them to work; plus updates, MCP servers and sharing your own. ::: say > Find a Digital Human in the Store that sums up tech news every day, and install it in this workspace. Halo searches the Store, lists a few good matches for you to choose from, and installs your pick in the current workspace. **Prerequisite**: **Operate Halo** under **＋ › Capabilities** in the message box must be on. ::: ## Open the Store {#open} Click **Store** on the left rail to open "Explore · Store": - The search box at the top searches every source at once, matching names, descriptions, authors and tags. - Below it are four tabs: **Discover**, **Digital Human**, **Skill** and **MCP**. **Discover** is the Store's front page; in the official build it lists everything (**All Apps**), and a company's own store may add featured picks and collections; the other three show one kind each, with category filters and **Load more** at the bottom. - If the list looks out of date, click **Refresh** next to the search box. ![The Digital Human tab of Explore · Store: the search box, Refresh and Publish App at the top, then category filters and Digital Human cards](https://hello-halo.cc/docs/images/digital-humans/store/browse.en.webp) The Store draws on several sources: the official Digital Human Protocol (DHP) registry, the MCP Official Registry, Smithery, Claude Skills and SkillHub. Under **Settings › App Store** you can turn off sources you don't need or **Add Registry**; for a company store of your own, see [Private store](https://hello-halo.cc/docs/en/advanced/private-store.html). ## Install a Digital Human {#install-digital-human} 1. On the **Digital Human** tab, click a card. The details page shows its description, the **Configuration** it asks for, the skills and MCP servers it depends on (**Dependencies**), and its system prompt (click **View system prompt**). 2. Click **Install**. 3. Under **Install to**, choose a workspace. A Digital Human goes into one workspace; if you have only one, there's nothing to choose. 4. If it has settings to fill in, click **Next**, fill in the required ones, then click **Install**; if not, just click **Install**. 5. When the button says **Installed**, click **Use** to open it. ![A Digital Human's details page in the Store: the Install button at the top right, with the description, configuration fields, dependencies and system prompt on the left](https://hello-halo.cc/docs/images/digital-humans/store/detail.en.webp) The skills it depends on are installed with it. If one of them fails, the whole install is rolled back, so you're never left with a half-installed Digital Human. ![Install step 1, Choose where to install: the workspace to install to, and the Next button](https://hello-halo.cc/docs/images/digital-humans/store/install-step1.en.webp) ![Install step 2, Configure: the required settings filled in, with Back and Install below](https://hello-halo.cc/docs/images/digital-humans/store/install-step2.en.webp) ::: tip When it needs websites signed in If the details list **Required Logins**, sign in to those websites in Halo's browser after installing so it can use them when it runs; see [AI Browser](https://hello-halo.cc/docs/en/features/ai-browser.html#digital-human-sign-in). ::: ::: done It appears under **Digital Humans › My Digital Humans**; if it has a schedule, it starts on time. To see it work right away, open it and click **Run now**. ::: ## Install a skill {#install-skill} 1. On the **Skill** tab, click a card; the details show the skill's **Documentation**. 2. Click **Add** and choose **Global (all workspaces)** or a workspace. A global skill works in every workspace; if a workspace has a skill with the same name, the workspace's one wins. 3. When the button says **Added**, click **Use** to open a conversation with the skill ready to use. ## MCP servers {#mcp} On the Store page, MCP entries are browse-only and their button says **Coming Soon**. To install an MCP server, open a Digital Human's **Capabilities and settings › Tools & Resources › MCP Tools**, click **Browse MCP store**, and install it into that Digital Human's workspace from there; see [MCP servers](https://hello-halo.cc/docs/en/features/mcp.html#from-the-store). ## Updates {#updates} About a minute after starting, and every 6 hours after that, Halo checks whether things you installed from the Store have new versions. It compares against the locally cached Store catalogue, which syncs only at startup, when you open the Store or when you click **Refresh**, so a new version shows up after the next sync. When there is one, the details page button changes to **Update to vX**. Click it and choose one of three options in "Update available": | Option | What it does | |---|---| | **Update in place** (Digital Humans) or **Overwrite upgrade** (skills, MCP) | Update in place: moves to the new version; anything you changed keeps your version, and you can switch each item to the author's version later in **Work activity**. Overwrite upgrade: replaces the content with the new version, including your edits to it; settings and data are kept | | **Keep current, install as a new copy** | Installs the new version in another workspace and leaves the current one alone | | **Skip this version** | Stops reminding you about this version | How each Digital Human updates itself is set under its **Capabilities and settings › Advanced › Upgrades › Upgrade strategy**: by default it installs patch and minor updates automatically (major versions ask first); you can also choose **Notify only** or **Manual**. You can't install or update while offline. ## Share a Digital Human you made {#share} - **Export to a file**: open the Digital Human, click **⋮ › Share** at the top right, then **Export** to get a `.dhpkg` file to send to a colleague. They install it with **Create Digital Human › Import**; see [Import a file](https://hello-halo.cc/docs/en/digital-humans/create.html#import). Exporting works only in the desktop app. - **Publish to the Store**: click **Publish App** in the Store, or **Share to Store** under **Share**, and choose the Digital Human or skill to publish. Halo from the official site doesn't list it directly: it packs the file and opens a pre-filled GitHub issue form in your browser. Attach the packed file by hand; the pre-filled text includes the file's temporary path on your computer, which on Windows contains your user name, so delete that path before submitting. It then waits for manual review. Steps are in [Publish to the Store](https://hello-halo.cc/docs/en/developers/store-publishing.html). ![The Publish app to store dialog: first choose whether to publish a Digital Human or a skill](https://hello-halo.cc/docs/images/digital-humans/store/publish-dialog.en.webp) For the `.dhpkg` format, see [DHP protocol](https://hello-halo.cc/docs/en/developers/dhp.html#package). ## Troubleshooting {#troubleshooting} ### The install button says "Offline" It says "You are offline. Connect to the network to install." Connect, then install. ### "This app is already installed in the selected scope." It's already installed in that workspace. Choose another workspace, or uninstall the existing one first. ### Installation of "…" failed Something went wrong during the install (often a skill it depends on couldn't be installed), and the whole install was rolled back. Read the reason after the colon and try again later; if it keeps failing, contact the author. ### The details page says "Unsupported package format" Halo doesn't support this entry's package format yet, so it can't be installed for now. ## Next steps {#next-steps} - [Create a Digital Human](https://hello-halo.cc/docs/en/digital-humans/create.html): build your own if the Store has nothing that fits. - [Private store](https://hello-halo.cc/docs/en/advanced/private-store.html): run a store inside your company. - [Publish to the Store](https://hello-halo.cc/docs/en/developers/store-publishing.html): publish your Digital Human for others to use.