agent-skills-harness: Instructions file for Codex

AGENTS.md

agent-skills-harness AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from a-tokyo/agent-skills-harness. It costs 1,922 tokens per session, scanned C, original, MIT.

Repository instructions for Agent Skills Harness, a project that creates and tests reusable instructions for AI agents. They describe the project layout, setup, and the main skill-building workflow.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when creating, testing, improving, or documenting agent skills in the Agent Skills Harness repository.
Why use it?
They give an agent the project context it needs to work in the repository without guessing what its folders and skills are for.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Written for Codex and OpenCode: the file is AGENTS.md. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

This is a-tokyo/agent-skills-harness's own configuration. It tells Codex and OpenCode how to work on agent-skills-harness 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 agent-skills-harness configures →

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is rm -rf ../agent-skills/skills/create-skill-autoresearch.

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to a-tokyo/agent-skills-harness. 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/a-tokyo/agent-skills-harness/main/AGENTS.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/a-tokyo/agent-skills-harness

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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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

rm -rf ../agent-skills/skills/create-skill-autoresearch
AGENTS.md · 118 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 118 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md

Project Overview

Agent Skills Harness is a factory and testing ground for building production-grade agent skills. It provides a structured pipeline for creating skills that are benchmarked against gold standards, autonomously improved via autoresearch loops, and verified through multi-agent consensus.

The core output is the create-skill-autoresearch factory skill, which orchestrates the entire skill creation lifecycle.

Repository Structure

.agents/skills/                 # Skills the harness USES (factory + vendored companions)
  create-skill-autoresearch/    # The factory skill (main deliverable; original)
  autoresearch/                 # Autonomous experimentation loop (vendored)
  production-grade/             # Engineering posture principles (vendored)
  premortem/                    # Risk analysis before execution (vendored)
  handoff/                      # Context preservation across sessions (vendored)
  documentation-writer/         # Diataxis documentation generation (vendored)
  llm-council/                  # Multi-agent planning with consensus (vendored)
  writing-great-skills/         # Skill-writing craft (vendored)
  tribunal/                     # Phase 5 verification when delegated (vendored)
  design-taste-frontend/        # Anti-slop frontend/UI skill (vendored)

builds/                         # Skills the harness PRODUCES (gitignored; one folder per build)
self-test/                      # The factory's own regression test + worked example
site/                           # Docs + landing site (Nextra → Vercel)
skills-lock.json                # Provenance + version pins for vendored skills

docs/
  reference/io-contract.md      # What goes in / what comes out (start here)
  reference/workspace-layout.md # Full file-by-file build layout
  reference/                    # rubric-format, metric-protocol, ...
  thoughts/                     # Research notes and design decisions
  study/                        # Case study materials (gitignored; maintainer-local)
  resources/                    # External reference implementations (git submodules)
  usage-guide.md                # How to use the factory
  architecture.md               # Design overview

Read the full file on GitHub · 118 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. 9d ago First seen · 118 lines · 1,922 tokens per session scan C 5a7c19505487

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agent-skills-harness AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository a-tokyo/agent-skills-harness (10 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,922 tokens to every session, about $0.0096 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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