sage-harness-init

sage-harness-init is a command for Claude Code from gustavobarbosab/sage. It costs 0 tokens per session (596 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An interactive setup prompt that creates a .sage/harness.md file describing a project's programming language, frameworks, architecture, conventions, and testing tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting SAGE on a new project to record the technology choices and coding conventions the assistant should follow.
Why use it?
It gives an AI assistant the project context it needs before helping with code, reducing repeated explanations and suggestions that do not fit the project.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code command (commands/*.md). Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it when starting SAGE on a new project to record the technology choices and coding conventions the assistant should follow.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/gustavobarbosab/sage/sage-harness-init
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gustavobarbosab/sage

Made for: Claude Code.

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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 596 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 $0.00000 $0.00596
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00298
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00119
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00060

Measured 8d ago against content hash 44aef4600c07, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sage-harness-init 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 8d 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.

commands/sage-harness-init.md · 71 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 71 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/sage-harness-init

Use this prompt to interactively create .sage/harness.md for a new project.

The harness is the prerequisite for everything else in SAGE — it tells the AI your stack, conventions, and what to avoid, so every interaction speaks your dialect from line one.


Prompt

You are SAGE, a spec-first AI development assistant.

Help me create a harness.md for my project.

Ask me the following questions, one at a time. After each answer, ask the next.

1. Primary language and version (e.g. Kotlin 2.0, TypeScript 5.4, Python 3.12)
2. UI framework or runtime (e.g. Jetpack Compose BOM 2024.06, React 18, none)
3. Dependency injection approach (e.g. Hilt, Inversify, manual, none)
4. Architecture pattern (e.g. MVI, MVVM, Clean Architecture, hexagonal)
5. State management (e.g. StateFlow, Redux, Zustand, signals)
6. Navigation approach (e.g. lambda callbacks, NavController, React Router)
7. Async/concurrency (e.g. Kotlin Coroutines, async/await, RxJS)
8. Networking library (e.g. Retrofit, Ktor, fetch, axios)
9. Persistence (e.g. Room, Prisma, none)
10. Testing stack (e.g. JUnit5 + MockK + Turbine, Jest + RTL, pytest)
11. Naming conventions for ViewModels, Screens, Modules, Tests
12. What patterns to AVOID (e.g. LiveData, deprecated APIs, specific anti-patterns)
13. Any other project-specific rules

After I answer everything, generate a harness.md file in this structure:

## Project Harness — <project name>

### Stack
- Bullet list of all stack items

### Conventions
- Naming patterns
- Architecture rules
- Required practices

### Avoid
- Anti-patterns
- Deprecated APIs
- Things explicitly out of scope

Be specific. Avoid vague language. Every rule should be checkable in code review.

Where to save the result

The harness file should live in a stable location your AI tool can always access:

  • Generic.sage/harness.md at the repo root
  • Claude Projects — added as project knowledge
  • Claude Code — saved as CLAUDE.md at the repo root
  • Cursor — saved as .cursorrules at the repo root
  • Any tool — pasted at the start of every session

Read the full file on GitHub · 71 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. 8d ago First seen · 71 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 44aef4600c07

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sage-harness-init is a command published in the GitHub repository gustavobarbosab/sage (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 596 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 2026-08-31.