Harness Engineering

Overview

Use this skill to translate harness engineering principles into concrete repository changes that improve agent speed, correctness, and maintainability.

Workflow

1) Assess the current harness

• Inspect AGENTS.md, contributor docs, CI workflows, and repo scripts.
• Map the actual path from prompt to merged change.
• List concrete failure modes: ambiguous instructions, repeated mistakes, slow reviews, merge conflicts, stale docs, or noisy CI.

2) Define operating boundaries