Byte Codebase Harness

Codebase Harness makes a repository navigable before Byte OS plans or edits it. It adapts Anthropic's large-codebase guidance for Claude Code into a provider-neutral setup that also works for Codex.

Inputs

Inspect:

repo root
top-level directories
existing CLAUDE.md
existing AGENTS.md
existing .claude/settings.json
package/build/test files
.gitignore and generated/artifact directories
.byte-os/STATUS.md if present