diff --git a/pkg/npm/api/hood/index.ts b/pkg/npm/api/hood/index.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e06143cf1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/npm/api/hood/index.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+export * from './lib';
+export * from './types';
diff --git a/pkg/npm/api/hood/lib.ts b/pkg/npm/api/hood/lib.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1d63ad673
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/npm/api/hood/lib.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+import { Poke, Scry } from '../lib';
+
+export const getVats: Scry = {
+  app: 'hood',
+  path: '/kiln/vats'
+};
+
+/**
+ * Install a foreign desk
+ */
+export function kilnInstall(
+  ship: string,
+  desk: string,
+  local?: string
+): Poke<any> {
+  return {
+    app: 'hood',
+    mark: 'kiln-install',
+    json: {
+      ship,
+      desk,
+      local: local || desk
+    }
+  };
+}
+
+/**
+ * Uninstall a desk
+ */
+export function kilnUninstall(
+  desk: string
+): Poke<any> {
+  return {
+    app: 'hood',
+    mark: 'kiln-uninstall',
+    json: desk
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkg/npm/api/hood/types.ts b/pkg/npm/api/hood/types.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8fe659ef4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/npm/api/hood/types.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,154 @@
+
+/**
+ * A pending commit, awaiting a future kelvin version
+ */
+interface Woof {
+  aeon: number;
+  weft: Weft;
+}
+
+interface Rein {
+  /**
+   * Agents not in manifest that should be running
+   */
+  add: string[];
+  /**
+   * Agents in manifest that should not be running
+   */
+  sub: string[];
+}
+
+/**
+ * A tracker of a foreign {@link Vat}
+ *
+ */
+export interface Arak {
+  /**
+   * Ship of foreign vat
+   */
+  ship: string;
+  /**
+   * Desk of foreign vat
+   */
+  desk: string;
+  /**
+   * Aeon (version number) that we currently have synced
+   */
+  aeon: number;
+  next: Woof[];
+  rein: Rein;
+}
+
+/**
+ * A component's kelvin version
+ */
+export interface Weft {
+  /**
+   *  Name of the component
+   *
+   *  @remarks
+   *  Usually %zuse, %hoon, or %lull
+   */
+  name: string;
+  /**
+   * Kelvin version
+   *
+   */
+  kelvin: number;
+}
+
+export interface KilnDiffBlock {
+  block: {
+    desk: string;
+    arak: Arak;
+    weft: Weft;
+    blockers: string[];
+  };
+}
+
+export interface KilnDiffReset {
+  reset: {
+    desk: string;
+    arak: Arak;
+  };
+}
+
+export interface KilnDiffMerge {
+  merge: {
+    desk: string;
+    arak: Arak;
+  };
+}
+
+export interface KilnDiffMergeSunk {
+  'merge-sunk': {
+    desk: string;
+    arak: Arak;
+    tang: string;
+  };
+}
+
+export interface KilnDiffMergeFail {
+  'merge-fail': {
+    desk: string;
+    arak: Arak;
+    tang: string;
+  };
+}
+
+export type KilnDiff =
+  | KilnDiffBlock
+  | KilnDiffReset
+  | KilnDiffMerge
+  | KilnDiffMergeSunk
+  | KilnDiffMergeFail;
+
+/**
+ * Cases for revision
+ *
+ */
+interface Cass {
+  /**
+   * Revision number
+   */
+  ud: number;
+  /**
+   * Timestamp of revision, as unix timestamp
+   *
+   * @remarks
+   * If \@da is outside valid positive unix timestamp, value will be zero
+   */
+  da: string;
+}
+
+/**
+ * A local desk installation
+ */
+export interface Vat {
+  /**
+   * Desk that this Vat describes
+   */
+  desk: string;
+  /**
+   * Hash of the desk, rendered as `@uv`
+   *
+   * @remarks
+   * Equivalent to
+   * ```hoon
+   * .^(@uv %cz /=desk=)
+   * ```
+   */
+  hash: string;
+  /**
+   * Current revision
+   */
+  cass: Cass;
+  /**
+   * Foreign sync
+   */
+  arak: Arak;
+}
+
+export interface Vats {
+  [desk: string]: Vat;
+}
diff --git a/pkg/npm/api/index.ts b/pkg/npm/api/index.ts
index 7d108981e..85a10df8c 100644
--- a/pkg/npm/api/index.ts
+++ b/pkg/npm/api/index.ts
@@ -15,4 +15,6 @@ export * as settings from './settings';
 export * from './s3';
 export * as s3 from './s3';
 export * from './lib';
-export * from './lib/BigIntOrderedMap';
\ No newline at end of file
+export * from './lib/BigIntOrderedMap';
+export * as hood from './hood';
+export * from './hood';