Harness Audit

Audit a codebase against a baseline 8-artifact framework for how well-equipped it is for autonomous AI agents to do end-to-end implementation work. When asked for Symphony readiness, add the unattended ticket-execution overlay: workflow contract, disposable workspace bootstrap, validation/evidence, ticket lifecycle, observability, safety, and smoke-ticket eval. Optionally apply surgical fixes for the highest-leverage gaps.

Framework provenance: Ryan Lopopolo's "Harness Engineering" talk (OpenAI, AI Engineer London 2025). Core thesis: code is cheap; scarce resources are human time, attention, and model context window. Codebases that surface the right context to agents at the right time produce more shippable work per human hour.

Distinct from neighboring skills

• Repo architecture — structural design and repo organization. Use that for "how should this repo be laid out?"
• Adversarial review — hunts real bugs in working or near-complete implementations. Use that for "is this code correct?"
• Cold-start doc improvement — narrowly improves AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md. This skill covers that plus seven more artifacts.
• This skill — asks: is this repo set up so agents can ship without a human babysitting every step?

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Default mode is audit and is read-only.

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