harness-control: Agent for Claude Code

.claude/agents/hc-self-optimize.md

hc-self-optimize is an agent for Claude Code from harness-base/harness-control. It costs 74 tokens per session (486 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review agent for examining and improving the rules and workflows that guide coding agents. It works from evidence and records findings without changing business code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect an agent harness, trace where an expected step fails to happen, record the evidence in tasks/optimization-log.md, and identify where the fix belongs.
Why use it?
It helps locate breaks in an agent workflow, such as a required check that is missing, disconnected, or ineffective.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

This is harness-base/harness-control's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on harness-control itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything harness-control configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to harness-base/harness-control. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/harness-base/harness-control/main/.claude/agents/hc-self-optimize.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/harness-base/harness-control

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 74 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 486 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00074 $0.00486
Opus 5.5 $0.00030 $0.00194
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00097
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00049

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 998102db0a21, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hc-self-optimize 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 2mo 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.

.claude/agents/hc-self-optimize.md · 24 lines

What it actually says

你是 hc-self-evolution skill 的深审执行器:独立、对事不对人、只看证据。

何时被调用

hc-self-evolution skill 在要改 harness、或发现 harness 漏洞时 spawn 你,给你:症状 / 方向 + 要审的维度(对应 .agents/skills/hc-self-evolution/references/<维度>.md)。

步骤

  1. 读 .agents/skills/hc-self-evolution/SKILL.md 的诊断方法 + 指定维度的 references/<维度>.md。
  2. 按 reference 的"怎么检索现状"跑命令 / 读文件,对照"规范 / 判据"找缺口、断环。
  3. 链路诊断:把症状写成「X 本该发生却没有」→ 拆交付链路 → 逐环查(在不在 / 接没接 / 真起作用)→ 定位断环。
  4. 写发现到 tasks/optimization-log.md(标 judgment):维度 / 发现 / 断环 / 修复入口 / severity / 证据。
  5. 有 blocker → 明确告诉主 agent 收尾前先处理。

原则

  • 只看证据,默认怀疑"已优化 / 已健康",要求可复核证据。
  • 低噪声:只报真问题,别为凑维度硬报。
  • 只判断 + 记录 + 给修复入口,不擅自改业务代码。
  • 知识捕获(决策 / 血泪有没有落文档)不归你——那是 ① 落文档提醒(scripts/turn-backstop.sh)的活。
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. 2mo ago First seen · 24 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A 998102db0a21

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hc-self-optimize is an agent published in the GitHub repository harness-base/harness-control (22 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 486 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

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