harness-core

harness-core is a plugin for Claude Code from 3xachris/3xa-harness. Its manifest loads nothing; the 5 skills it bundles cost 478 tokens per session together, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of five working practices for long-running coding-agent tasks, covering task scope, human review, decision records, handoffs, and evidence-based completion.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps create work orders, review sensory output, record decisions, hand off work, and close tasks with evidence.
Why use it?
It reduces lost context, unclear ownership, unchecked outputs, and unsupported claims when work continues over time or changes hands.

Plugin for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code plugin manifest.

Good fit It helps create work orders, review sensory output, record decisions, hand off work, and close tasks with evidence.

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Install in Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add 3xachris/3xa-harness/plugin install harness-core
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/3xachris/3xa-harness

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured The manifest loads nothing itself; its 5 skills cost 478 tokens a session between them.
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.
Security

Grade A, and why

harness-core 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 3d 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-plugin/marketplace.json#harness-core · 23 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "harness-core",
  "source": "./",
  "description": "The five-skill discipline loop for long-running agent work: freeze a task's scope into a workorder, gate sensory output behind human review, log decisions so they survive a context reset, hand off state when work changes hands, and close out with evidence instead of claims.",
  "version": "0.3.0",
  "category": "productivity",
  "keywords": [
    "agent-skills",
    "human-in-the-loop",
    "review-gate",
    "decision-log",
    "workorder",
    "closeout",
    "handoff"
  ],
  "skills": [
    "./skills/core/workorder",
    "./skills/core/sensory-gate",
    "./skills/core/decision-log",
    "./skills/core/handoff",
    "./skills/core/honest-closeout"
  ]
}
Contents

What it installs

The manifest is a name and a version. 5 skills travel with it, and installing the plugin installs all of them — 478 tokens a session between them. Each is measured on its own page, and each can be installed alone.

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside marketplace.json#harness-core in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 3d ago First seen · 23 lines scan A 837e3d26d95f

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harness-core is a plugin published in the GitHub repository 3xachris/3xa-harness (17 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. 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 2026-09-04.