harness
Skill0 starsChanged 21 days agoNo licenceView on GitHub
Use when designing or changing the environment an agent runs in, such as tool names and schemas, permission and sandbox posture, credential or network scope, local versus hosted runtime constraints, what a finished run logs, or how a harness change gets measured. Also when an agent routes to the wrong tool, cannot recover from a tool error, or a permission decision is being made by intuition rather than evidence.
35 other projects use a version of this.
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Most recently taken up by
- hanzhangzzz/agent-skills-zhtheir own version, first seen Oct 29, 2026
- manhquydev/flow-skilltheir own version, first seen Oct 16, 2026
- es6kr/skillstheir own version, first seen Oct 13, 2026
- manuelcozar55/setup-claude-codetheir own version, first seen Oct 13, 2026
- ririversoza/claude-harnesstheir own version, first seen Oct 11, 2026
- harness-institute/harnesstheir own version, first seen Oct 11, 2026
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Projects with it also use grill-me and skill-creator.
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GoogleSkillgrill-me
A relentless interview to sharpen a plan or design.
Also in 3 projects that use this
SentrySkillskill-creator
Create new agent skills following the Agent Skills specification. Use when asked to "create a skill", "add a new skill", "write a skill", "make a skill", "build a skill", or scaffold a new skill with SKILL.md. Guides through requirements, writing, registration, and verification.
Also in 3 projects that use this
Other versions35 projects use a version of this.
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- revfactory/harness★ 9.1ksame name
- cexll/myclaude★ 2.8ksame name
- Simpleyyt/ai-manus★ 1.6ksame name
- BankrBot/openclaw-skills★ 1.2ksame name
- BankrBot/skills★ 1.2ksame name
- bam-bam-2/solo-skills★ 366same name
- serejaris/personal-corp-os★ 243same name
- serejaris/ris-claude-code★ 243same name
- SensorsIot/Embedded-AI-Harness★ 235same name
- skillsynchq/txcript★ 208same name
25 more not listed
How matches are found. Word for word: the exact same text. Edited: shares passages with this file (“99% same” means 99% of its five-word phrases also appear here; 10% or more counts). Their own version: similar meaning, or, weakest, the same name. We can’t tell which project had it first. Projects are counted among the 200 most-starred candidates, and mentions are links to the repository we found, up to 50 per site, so both counts are a floor.
In this repository38 other files it gives its agents.
- codebase-designSkill
- code-reviewSkill
- contextSkill
- debugSkill
- delegateSkill
- domain-modelingSkill
- find-skillsSkill
- flowSkill
- frameSkill
- gitSkill
- grillingSkill
- handoffSkill
- implementSkill
- improve-codebase-architectureSkill
- issue-chainSkill
- loopsSkill
- memorySkill
- planSkill
- prototypeSkill
- prSkill
- researchSkill
- retroSkill
- reviewSkill
- secureSkill
- setup-matt-pocock-skillsSkill
- skill-authoringSkill
- tddSkill
- teachSkill
- to-questionnaireSkill
- to-specSkill
- to-ticketsSkill
- triageSkill
- verifySkill
- wait-whatSkill
- wayfinderSkill
- wizardSkill
- writing-for-agentsSkill
- zeroslopSkill
The file
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
1 rule. 0 are common, 1 is distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.
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Common
Most of the 24 edited versions we read keep these.
1
Distinctive
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
0
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
No licence file, so all rights are reserved — read it at the source. We count its rules but don't quote them. Read them on GitHub.
“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 24 edited versions of this file we could read. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
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