harness-diet

Installation
SKILL.md

harness-diet — put your always-loaded context back under budget

A harness gains weight automatically (every incident note, every boss directive, every fix lands as another paragraph in an always-loaded rule) but only loses weight when someone runs a diet. Field measurement on a mature harness: growth-to-reduction commit ratio of ~60:1, natural growth of ~70KB/month, and adherence degrading as the pile grows. Anthropic's guidance is blunt: "target under 200 lines per CLAUDE.md file. Longer files consume more context and reduce adherence", and rules without paths frontmatter load "with the same priority as CLAUDE.md" — every session, every token (memory docs).

Result you should expect: one field run took a harness from 146KB always-loaded (143% of budget) to 100.6KB (98%) with zero governance loss — every killswitch, decision table, trigger keyword, and canonical command verified present after the diet.

Budgets (defaults — override via flags)

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Sep 12, 2026