Effective Harnesses

Purpose

Use this skill to keep long-running implementation or research projects reliable across many agent sessions. Maintain a small set of durable project files so any compatible agent can resume work without relying on hidden chat context.

Core Principles

• Work on one feature at a time unless the user explicitly requests parallel work.
• Track every feature in feature_list.json.
• Run each feature's test/check command before marking it complete.
• Keep a human-readable progress log for recovery.
• Commit meaningful checkpoints when the environment and user instructions require git commits.
• Prefer portable files and commands over host-specific slash commands.

Harness Files

Create or maintain these files at the project root: