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harness-engineering

Skill8 starsChanged 6 months agoNo licenceView on GitHub

Use this when: design an agent harness, what goes in AGENTS.md, my agent keeps doing the wrong things, workspace isolation for agents, agent ignores my rules, structure agent instructions, prevent agent drift, agent keeps breaking things, CI for agent PRs, my agent breaks production, multi-agent coordination, AGENTS.md structure, agent hooks, PreToolUse hook, PostToolUse hook, agent entropy, blast radius control, agent loop termination, agent state persistence, checkpoint resume, generator evaluator pattern, eval harness CI gate, authority tier model, Symphony harness, WORKFLOW.md design, harness vs agent loop, minimum viable harness, production harness, agent guardrails, agent permission model, tool registry, execution context, harness engineering checklist, context window engineering, mechanical enforcement linters hooks, agent observability tracing, cost controls circuit breaker, human in the loop escalation

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  • DVwebBiz11Skill

    self-improvement-loops

    This skill should be used when the harness, scaffold, workflow, or optimizer itself is the optimization target: recursive self-improvement (RSI) loops, meta-harnesses, self-improving harnesses that mine their own failures and propose bounded edits, evolutionary or population-based search over agent scaffolds, acceptance gates for self-modifying systems, and agentic context evolution where the mechanism that produces context is versioned and evolved. Route governance of a single autonomous loop (locked surfaces, durable logs, rollback, novelty gates, approval boundaries) to harness-engineering, measurement and quality-gate design to evaluation, judge design to advanced-evaluation, and remote sandbox infrastructure to hosted-agents.

    Also in 4 projects that use this

  • Downey6689Skill

    bdi-mental-states

    Transforms external RDF context into BDI mental states. Invoke when modeling beliefs, desires, and intentions.

    Also in 5 projects that use this

  • Downey6689Skill

    hosted-agents

    Guidance for hosted/sandboxed agents. Invoke when running background agents in isolated VMs or multi-client setups.

    Also in 5 projects that use this

  • DVwebBiz11Skill

    long-horizon-prompting

    This skill should be used when writing, enhancing, or evaluating the launch prompt for a long-running autonomous agent or a parallel multi-agent orchestration attacking a hard problem: pseudo-formal task briefs that define terms and an exact success predicate linguistically, enumerate non-counting outcomes, set persistence rules with explicit stop and return conditions and effort floors, manage a diverse portfolio of parallel approaches with an approach registry and blocked-route bookkeeping, and gate the return on adversarial audit. Route agent topology and coordination protocols to multi-agent-patterns, runtime control surfaces and loop governance to harness-engineering, evaluator and quality-gate construction to evaluation, judge design to advanced-evaluation, and compaction or memory mechanics to context-compression and memory-systems.

    Also in 4 projects that use this

  • AbdelrhmanAlquranSkill

    latent-briefing

    This skill should be used when the user asks to "share memory between agents", "KV cache compaction for multi-agent", "orchestrator worker context", "latent briefing", "reduce worker tokens", "cross-agent memory without summarization", or discusses Attention Matching compaction, recursive language models with workers, or token explosion in hierarchical agents.

    Also in 4 projects that use this

  • abdullah1854Skill

    context-degradation

    Also in 5 projects that use this

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We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent

7 rules. 0 are common, 7 are distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.

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    Common

    Most of the 22 edited versions we read keep these.

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    Distinctive

    This author's own choices. Worth a look.

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    Very specific

    Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.

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