harness - Agent Team & Skill Architect

Keyword: harness · build a harness · design agent team · harness engineering

Meta-skill: harness designs the teams and skills that run your domain work.

Harness decomposes complex tasks into coordinated teams of specialized agents. It analyzes your domain, selects the right architecture pattern, generates agent definition files and skills, then validates the harness end-to-end.

Agent Teams require: CLAUDE_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_AGENT_TEAMS=1

When to use this skill

• Decompose a complex project into a coordinated multi-agent team
• Choose the right architecture: pipeline, fan-out/fan-in, expert pool, producer-reviewer, supervisor, or hierarchical delegation
• Generate .claude/agents/{name}.md agent definition files
• Generate .claude/skills/{name}/SKILL.md skill files with bundled resources
• Validate trigger conditions, dry-run teams, and compare with/without harness quality
• Build harnesses for: research, coding, content creation, code review, data pipelines, marketing