harness-kit CLAUDE.md

A project instruction file for harness-kit, a collection of Claude Code plugins, skills, and settings distributed through a marketplace. It describes the repository layout and how to add a plugin and its manifest.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding or modifying a harness-kit plugin, writing its manifest, updating marketplace data, or working with the repository's validation and build structure.
Why use it?
It gives contributors the correct locations and structure for plugin work. This helps keep marketplace metadata, shared packages, validation, and builds consistent.

Instructions file

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 instructions/harnessprotocol/harness-kit/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/harnessprotocol/harness-kit
Per session 1,579 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,579 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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 $0.01579 $0.01579
Opus 5 $0.00790 $0.00790
Sonnet 5 $0.00316 $0.00316
Haiku 4.5 $0.00158 $0.00158

Measured 2d ago against content hash e12345b5887b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

harness-kit 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 2d 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 · 163 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 163 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

harness-kit

Claude Code configuration — skills, agents, and settings worth sharing, distributed as a plugin marketplace.

Repo structure

harness-kit/
├── .claude-plugin/
│   └── marketplace.json          ← marketplace catalog
├── .github/
│   ├── schema/
│   │   └── plugin.schema.json    ← Protocol JSON Schema for plugin manifest validation
│   └── workflows/
│       └── validate.yml          ← CI: manifest parsing, version alignment, schema validation, builds, tests
├── plugins/                      ← 17 plugins; see .claude-plugin/marketplace.json for full list
├── packages/                     ← shared libraries
│   ├── core/                     ← harness.yaml compile/parse/detect logic
│   ├── shared/                   ← shared TypeScript types used across apps
│   ├── design-tokens/            ← single source of truth for the shared color identity; generates CSS vars for app + website
│   └── marketplace-data/         ← build-time generator: git → static marketplace JSON (runs the security scanner)
├── functions/                    ← Cloudflare Pages Functions (server-side endpoints, e.g. /feedback proxy)
├── website/                      ← documentation site + plugin marketplace (harnesskit.ai)
├── homebrew/                     ← Homebrew tap formulae for CLI and desktop app
├── apps/                         ← end-user applications
│   ├── desktop/                  ← Tauri desktop app (React + Rust)
│   └── cli/                      ← harness CLI
├── profiles/                     ← pre-configured harness.yaml bundles for different roles
├── evals/                        ← automated skill evaluation framework (Python + golden responses)
├── harness.yaml                  ← dogfooding config (plugins used to develop this repo)
├── install.sh                    ← script fallback for users without plugin marketplace
├── CLAUDE.md                     ← this file
└── README.md

Adding a new plugin

1. Create the plugin directory

plugins/<plugin-name>/
├── .claude-plugin/
│   └── plugin.json
├── agents/               ← optional, for specialist subagents
├── scripts/              ← optional, for bundled utilities
└── skills/
    └── <skill-name>/
        ├── SKILL.md
        └── README.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 163 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. 2d ago First seen · 163 lines · 1,579 tokens per session scan A e12345b5887b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

harness-kit CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository harnessprotocol/harness-kit (10 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 1,579 tokens to every session, about $0.0079 per session on Opus 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.