task-harness
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Initialize a durable task pack under harness/tasks so long-running work has stable brief, progress, decisions, evidence, and verdict artifacts.
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
4 rules. About 0 are common, 2 are distinctive, and 2 are 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.
2
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Very specific: line 8
Use when the work should be anchored in harness/tasks/<task-id>/ instead of only living in chat context.
- Distinctive: line 23
keep task scope explicit
- Very specific: line 24
leave stable artifacts for later review / verify / qa
- Distinctive: line 30
write the first brief and progress snapshot
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 308,232 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
Task Harness
Use when the work should be anchored in harness/tasks/<task-id>/ instead of only living in chat context.
Read First
skills/harness/task-harness/references/task-artifact-contract.mdskills/harness/task-harness/references/progress-and-checkpoint-rules.mdskills/harness/task-harness/assets/task-brief.mdskills/harness/task-harness/assets/task-progress.mdskills/harness/task-harness/assets/task-decisions.mdskills/harness/task-harness/assets/evidence-index.jsonskills/harness/task-harness/assets/verdict.json
Goals
- initialize a durable task pack
- keep task scope explicit
- leave stable artifacts for later
review / verify / qa
Process
- choose or create a
task-id - initialize
harness/tasks/<task-id>/ - write the first brief and progress snapshot
- route the next step to
build,review,verify, orqa
Other versions1 project uses a version of this.
Word for word · 0
None found.
Edited · 0
None found.
Wrote their own version · 1
- kangarooking/kangarooking-skills★ 616same 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.
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- AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- codex/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- claude/CLAUDE.mdCLAUDE.md
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- qaSkill
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