harness-engineering
Designs autonomous agent harnesses: research loops, locked and editable surfaces, durable logs, novelty gates, rollback and human approval boundaries.
- Kind
- Skill
- Works with
- Any agent
- Source
- Agent Skills for Context Engineering @ 9ff0c99108b3
- Path
- skills/harness-engineering/SKILL.md
- Jobs
- Guardrails, Automation
- Topics
- Agents & MCP
Credit
- Made by
- muratcankoylan
- Original
- github.com/muratcankoylan/Agent-Skills-for-Context-Engineerin…
- License
- MIT
Listed by Skill Manifest; not made by us.
InstallInstall it from a plugin marketplace.
/plugin install context-engineering@context-engineering-marketplace
Install factsScanned 2 Nov 2026
- Adds
- .claude/skills/harness-engineering/ (the skill folder)
- Runs scripts
- None found
- Uses the network
- None found
- Needs secrets
- None found
- Source revision
- 9ff0c99108b3
- Licence
- MIT
- Last activity
- 12 Oct 2026
- Review
- Reviewed
Found by a static scan of the stored text; nothing is run. “None found” is not a guarantee, so read what you install before you run it.
- Only the main file is read; other files in the folder are not scanned
# Harness Engineering Harness engineering designs the control system around an agent: what it may edit, how it receives feedback, where it writes state, how failures recover, and who can approve irreversible actions. The harness is the difference between a helpful agent session and an autonomous loop that can run for days without corrupting its objective. ## When to Activate Activate this skill when: - Building autonomous research or experimentation loops - Designing an agent environment with locked metrics and editable code or content - Creating PR-producing or background agents - Evaluating whether an agent can safely run without frequent human prompts - Adding novelty, ablation, pruning, rollback, or durable logging to an agent workflow - Preventing agents from gaming benchmarks, weakening rubrics, or losing state across compaction Do not activate this skill for adjacent work owned by other skills: - General quality gates, regression suites, or outcome metrics without autonomous control surfaces: `evaluation`. - Tool schemas, response formats, and recovery errors for harness tools: `tool-design`. …