Claude Code Agent Harness Architecture

Skill by ara.so — Claude Code Skills collection.

What This Skill Covers

This skill provides deep architectural knowledge for building production-grade AI Agent systems (Agent Harness), based on the comprehensive analysis of Claude Code's architecture from the claude-code-book project. You'll learn:

• Core Agent Harness patterns: conversation loops, tool systems, permission pipelines
• Context & memory management: token budgeting, compression strategies, long-term memory
• Multi-agent orchestration: fork patterns, coordinator models, sub-agent spawning
• Integration patterns: MCP protocol, hooks system, skill/plugin architecture
• Production concerns: streaming, performance optimization, safety guardrails

Installation & Access

The knowledge base is available at:

• Online book: https://lintsinghua.github.io
• GitHub repository: https://github.com/lintsinghua/claude-code-book