agent-harness: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

agent-harness CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from Ghosteken/agent-harness. It costs 985 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for agent-harness, a collection of coding-agent skills, specialist agents, commands, hooks, documentation, and validation tools. It describes where these parts live and how the project is organized.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when navigating agent-harness, adding or editing skills, working with agent personas or commands, and understanding its build and validation files.
Why use it?
It gives contributors and coding agents the project’s structure, roles, conventions, and validation expectations in one place.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions .claude-plugin; mentions subagents.

This is Ghosteken/agent-harness's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on agent-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-harness configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Grade A, and why

agent-harness CLAUDE.md 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 20d 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.md · 68 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 68 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

agent-harness

This is the agent-harness project — a production-grade collection of engineering skills and specialist agent personas for AI coding assistants.

Project Structure

skills/            → Curated skills (SKILL.md per directory) exposed to the agent
archive/           → Pre-prune bulk-import skills and tooling, kept but not exposed
agents/            → Specialist agent personas (12 total — see below)
hooks/             → Session lifecycle hooks
.claude/commands/  → Slash commands for Claude Code
commands/          → Slash commands for Antigravity CLI
.gemini/commands/  → Slash commands for Gemini CLI
.claude-plugin/    → Plugin manifest (plugin.json) and marketplace listing
scripts/           → Skill validation (validate-skills.js), agent-scopes.json, install/build scripts
references/        → Supplementary checklists (testing, performance, security, accessibility, orchestration)
docs/              → Setup guides for different tools
CONTRIBUTING.md    → Guidelines for adding or editing skills

Agent Personas

Agent Role Primary Scope
code-reviewer Senior Staff Engineer Five-axis code review
security-auditor Security Engineer Vulnerability detection, OWASP
test-engineer QA Engineer Test strategy, coverage analysis
web-performance-auditor Web Performance Engineer Core Web Vitals audit
api-developer Senior API Engineer REST/GraphQL, spec-first, auth, versioning
db-architect Senior Database Architect Schema design, indexing, migrations
senior-devops Senior DevOps Engineer CI/CD, IaC, containers, GitOps
senior-frontend-engineer Senior Frontend Engineer React/TS, accessibility, Core Web Vitals
senior-cloud-architect Senior Cloud Architect Multi-region, IAM, HA/DR, cost optimisation
senior-backend-engineer Senior Backend Engineer Service architecture, async, queues, caching
ai-ml-engineer AI/ML Engineer Prompt engineering, RAG, LLM evaluation
senior-qa-engineer Senior QA Engineer Feature verification, fix validation, regression checks

Read the full file on GitHub · 68 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.

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agent-harness CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Ghosteken/agent-harness (4 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 985 tokens to every session, about $0.0039 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 2026-08-31.

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