update-harness
Skill3 starsChanged 22 days agoMITView on GitHub
Use when the user asks to update the template or the harness (any language: "update the template", "actualiza el arnés", "mettre à jour le template", "template aktualisieren"). Applies ownership rules, resolves conflicts and updates the manifest/state.
2 other projects use a version of this.
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- ldaume/agentic-engineering-harnesstheir own version, first seen Oct 20, 2026
- sogud/skillstheir own version, first seen Oct 13, 2026
Other versions2 projects use a version of this.
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Wrote their own version · 2
- ldaume/agentic-engineering-harness★ 3same name
- sogud/skills★ 1same name
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 repository18 other files it gives its agents.
- AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- CLAUDE.mdCLAUDE.md
- architectural-decision-recordsSkill
- conventional-commitsSkill
- gherkin-specsSkill
- git-workflowSkill
- grillingSkill
- implementation-standardsSkill
- openspec-apply-changeSkill
- openspec-archive-changeSkill
- openspec-exploreSkill
- openspec-proposeSkill
- openspec-sync-specsSkill
- openspec-workflowSkill
- session-endSkill
- session-startupSkill
- test-driven-developmentSkill
- using-git-worktreesSkill
The file
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
3 rules. About 0 are common, 2 are distinctive, and 1 is very specific to this project.
≈0
Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
≈2
Distinctive · estimate
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
1
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Distinctive: line 14
Not mid-change: finish or archive first.
- Very specific: line 34
Do not improvise hashes: use sha256.sh/sha256.ps1 or the scripts.
- Distinctive: line 36
If the template removes a file, report it.
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 350,495 skill files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
Update the harness
Flow to bring a new template version into a configured project. It never overwrites owned files and never deletes files.
When
- The user asks to update the template/harness, or a new tag/commit exists.
- Not mid-change: finish or archive first.
- Trigger phrases may arrive in any language — match the intent ("actualiza el arnés", "update the template", "mettre à jour", "aktualisieren"), not the exact wording.
Steps
- Check state:
.atlas/state.json(template_source) and.atlas/manifest.json. - Get the new template in a temp directory (
git clone+checkout <tag|commit>). - Run the script from the project root:
node .atlas/scripts/actualizar-arnes.mjs --template <path>owned→ skipped ·generated→ regenerated (adapters with resolved placeholders) ·managed→ replaced if the hash matches, otherwise<file>.new.- It backs up and rewrites
manifest.jsonandstate.json(version, commit, hashes).
- Resolve conflicts:
diff -u <file> <file>.new, merge by hand and remove the.new. - Validate:
validar-manifiesto,validar-contrato,validar-perfiles,openspec doctorandopenspec context. - Commit:
chore(harness): update to <version>and report updated/conflicts/skipped.
Rules
- Do not improvise hashes: use
sha256.sh/sha256.ps1or the scripts. - Do not overwrite
owned(AGENTS.md, config, docs, adr, specs). - If the template removes a file, report it; do not delete it.
- Packs are enabled/disabled by hand (
.atlas/packs/README.md).
Human guide: docs/harness/es/UPDATE.md (or docs/harness/en/UPDATE.md).
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