harness-eval: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

harness-eval CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from redhat-community-ai-tools/harness-eval. It costs 1,086 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of project instructions for harness-eval, a tool that checks how well an AI agent setup works. It covers development, testing, releases, and the project layout.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when changing harness-eval code, preparing a commit, reviewing project structure, or cutting a release.
Why use it?
It gives the coding agent the project’s rules and checks to follow, reducing missed tests, formatting problems, type errors, and required changelog entries.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md.

This is redhat-community-ai-tools/harness-eval's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on harness-eval 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-eval configures →

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

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Grade A, and why

harness-eval 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 5d 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 · 65 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

harness-eval

AI agent setup evaluation tool. See README.md for usage, features, and installation.

Development

  • Python 3.11+, managed with uv
  • Run tests: uv run pytest
  • Lint: uv run ruff check src/ tests/
  • Format: uv run ruff format src/ tests/
  • Format check (dry run): uv run ruff format --check src/ tests/
  • Type check: uv run mypy src/
  • See CONTRIBUTING.md for adding rules, plans, and PRs
  • See CHANGELOG.md for release history

Changelog

Every PR that adds a feature, fixes a bug, or changes behavior must include a CHANGELOG.md entry under [Unreleased]. Add it in the appropriate subsection (Added, Changed, Fixed, Removed). One line per change.

To cut a release: uv run scripts/release.py minor (or patch/major). This moves unreleased entries to a dated version, bumps pyproject.toml, commits, and tags.

Before committing

The CI runs 5 jobs: lint, typecheck, test, security gate, lint gate. All must pass. Run this before committing:

uv run ruff format src/ tests/ && uv run ruff check src/ tests/ && uv run pytest tests/ -q
uv run harness-eval harness-security . --fail-on-error      # security gate: errors block (warnings are informational)
uv run harness-eval harness-gate .                          # gating-tier integrity rules; exits 1 on any finding
uv run harness-eval harness-lint . --fail-on-error          # lint: errors block, advisory findings do not

The most common CI failure is forgetting ruff format. The security gate blocks on any security finding (even warnings). harness-gate is the integrity gate. content/broken-references is advisory and does not gate.

Project structure

  • src/harness_eval/ - main package
    • cli/ - Click CLI package (lint.py, gate.py, review.py, security.py, skill.py, scan.py, submission_scan.py, doctor.py, baseline.py, rules.py)
    • config/ - rule presets (recommended/strict/security/scan/pre-workflow)
    • core/ - setup discovery, fingerprinting, component types
      • discoverers/ - per-tool discoverer classes (ToolDiscoverer ABC); add new assistants here
    • inspection/ - static analysis: parsers, lint engine, 108 rules, suppression, auto-fix
      • rules/security/_shared.py - shared scanning logic used by security rules across component types
    • rubric/ - LLM-based issue detection; prompts in rubric/prompts/
    • analysis/ - system-level analysis (budget, triggers, dependencies, context utilization)
    • output/ - report generation (terminal + JSON)
    • utils/ - token counting, TF-IDF similarity, frontmatter parsing, LLM client, path safety
    • data/ - versioned JSON data files (builtins, tautological patterns) for knowledge that decays
  • skills/ - plugin skills with SKILL.md + rubric files + scripts
  • tests/ - pytest test suite with fixtures

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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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  2. 9d ago First seen · 64 lines · 1,050 tokens per session scan A bb55ff5f92cf

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harness-eval CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository redhat-community-ai-tools/harness-eval (27 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 1,086 tokens to every session, about $0.0054 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 2026-08-30.

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