harness-engineering

An agent skill by muratcankoylan, from muratcankoylan/Agent-Skills-for-Context-Engineering. Tags: automation, debugging, developer-tools, devops, strategy.

What it does

This skill should be used when designing autonomous agent harnesses: research loops, evaluation scaffolds, locked and editable surfaces, durable logs, novelty gates, pruning, rollback, PR preparation, and human approval boundaries.

Install

With the skills CLI, which installs into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents:

npx skills add muratcankoylan/Agent-Skills-for-Context-Engineering --skill harness-engineering

Or copy the skill folder into Claude Code's skills directory by hand (~/.claude/skills for every project, or .claude/skills inside one):

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/muratcankoylan/Agent-Skills-for-Context-Engineering
cp -r Agent-Skills-for-Context-Engineering/skills/harness-engineering ~/.claude/skills/harness-engineering

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Source

Repository

muratcankoylan/Agent-Skills-for-Context-Engineering (all skills from this repository)

Path

skills/harness-engineering/SKILL.md

Branch

main

Updated

2026-09-19

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