Agent Harness Engineering

Use this skill when the goal is to make a repository easier for coding agents to understand, change, and maintain over time.

This skill turns the main ideas from OpenAI's harness-engineering article into a reusable project pattern:

• AGENTS.md stays short and acts as a router
• durable knowledge moves into docs/
• context is disclosed progressively instead of dumped all at once
• quality rules become mechanical checks instead of tribal knowledge
• optional garbage collection keeps agent-generated entropy under control

When to use it

Use this skill when the user asks to: