hardness

hardness is an agent for coding agents from anymouschina/TapCanvas. It costs 0 tokens per session (9,089 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A project description and research excerpt about TapCanvas, an immersive canvas application, and methods for helping coding agents build long-running applications.

In plain words
What is it for?
It may provide background for work on TapCanvas or long-running application development, but the concrete jobs are not specified.
Why use it?
The available text does not clearly define a specific add-on or its actions.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/anymouschina/tapcanvas/hardness
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anymouschina/TapCanvas

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for hardness

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 9,089 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00000 $0.09089
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.04544
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.01818
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00909

Measured 5d ago against content hash 6a9dc20b5f51, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hardness scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

docs/agents/hardness.md · 382 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 382 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

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* Research

Try Claude

Engineering at Anthropic

Harness design for long-running application development

Published Mar 24, 2026

Harness design is key to performance at the frontier of agentic coding. Here's how we pushed Claude further in frontend design and long-running autonomous software engineering.

Written by Prithvi Rajasekaran, a member of our Labs team.

Over the past several months I’ve been working on two interconnected problems: getting Claude to produce high-quality frontend designs, and getting it to build complete applications without human intervention. This work originated with earlier efforts on our frontend design skill and long-running coding agent harness, where my colleagues and I were able to improve Claude’s performance well above baseline through prompt engineering and harness design—but both eventually hit ceilings.

To break through, I sought out novel AI engineering approaches that held across two quite different domains, one defined by subjective taste, the other by verifiable correctness and usability. Taking inspiration from Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), I designed a multi-agent structure with a generator and evaluator agent. Building an evaluator that graded outputs reliably—and with taste—meant first developing a set of criteria that could turn subjective judgments like “is this design good?” into concrete, gradable terms.

I then applied these techniques to long-running autonomous coding, carrying over two lessons from our earlier harness work: decomposing the build into tractable chunks, and using structured artifacts to hand off context between sessions. The final result was a three-agent architecture—planner, generator, and evaluator—that produced rich full-stack applications over multi-hour autonomous coding sessions.

Read the full file on GitHub · 382 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 382 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 6a9dc20b5f51

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hardness is an agent published in the GitHub repository anymouschina/TapCanvas (590 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 9,089 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.