Repo Harness Assessment

Overview

Assess how well a repository lets an agent find its rules, make safe changes, verify them, and produce reviewable evidence.

This is the default router for existing repositories. It also owns agent-entrypoint design because entrypoints are the navigation layer of the assessment, not a separate harness system. For shared vocabulary and neutral artifact names, see ../../references/harness-patterns.md; when expected harness files are missing, use references/build-when-missing.md; for canonical entrypoints, mirrors, and drift prevention, use references/entrypoint-policy.md.

When To Use

• The user asks what harness pieces a repository is missing.
• The user wants to create, shrink, reconcile, or diagnose AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, GEMINI.md, Cursor rules, or GitHub instructions.
• You need to compare entrypoints, validation commands, runtime evidence, delivery records, or quality gates across repositories.
• You need to decide whether the next smallest improvement is an entrypoint, validation script, artifact bundle, ledger, contract check, or quality gate.

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