Harness Engineering Playbook

A skills.sh-compatible skill that operationalizes the practices from OpenAI's Harness Engineering guide. Use it to set up or refactor agent-first workflows so that autonomous runs are repeatable, observable, and safe.

Install

npx skills add broomva/harness-engineering-skill --skill harness-engineering-playbook

What It Does

• Bootstraps harness artifacts: AGENTS.md, PLANS.md, docs/ARCHITECTURE.md, docs/OBSERVABILITY.md, Makefile.harness, and CI workflows.
• Wraps deterministic commands behind make smoke, make check, make ci so agents can run them reliably.
• Enforces strict module boundaries and data-shape contracts.
• Wires structured observability (correlation IDs, key transitions) from day 1.
• Adds entropy-control audits and nightly harness checks to prevent docs drift and flaky scripts.

Workflow