neo-harness

neo-harness is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Benknightdark/neo-skills. It costs 89 tokens per session (1,098 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for inspecting a software project and creating or improving its AGENTS.md file. That file gives coding agents project-specific rules, workflows, checks, and restrictions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess a repository, document its commands and architecture, define an agent workflow, add feedback checks, and record actions that agents must avoid.
Why use it?
It helps agents follow the project's actual structure and verification process instead of relying on generic instructions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md; mentions Gemini CLI.

Good fit Use it to assess a repository, document its commands and architecture, define an agent workflow, add feedback checks, and record actions that agents must avoid.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/benknightdark/neo-skills/neo-harness
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.

Any agent
npx skills add Benknightdark/neo-skills --skill neo-harness
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Benknightdark/neo-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 89 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,098 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00089 $0.01098
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00549
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00220
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00110

Measured 12d ago against content hash f6baab20f208, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

neo-harness 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/generate-agents-md.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/neo-harness/SKILL.md · 81 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 81 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Unified Agent Harness Architect & Workflow Generator

This skill integrates three core Agent engineering domains (Harness Assessment, Execution Protocol, and Orchestration Architecture) to analyze a target project and generate a tailored, strict AGENTS.md file (Harness Workflow Specification).

Core Principle

Agent = Model (Reasoning & Generation) + Harness (Guides + Sensors + Gates + Topologies)

The generated AGENTS.md acts as the single source of truth governing all AI Agents operating in the project.

[!IMPORTANT] Template Compliance & Size Constraint: Any created or modified AGENTS.md MUST strictly adhere to the design specification of assets/AGENTS.md.template (containing 4 mandatory sections: Project Overview, Commands Table, 9-stage Workflow Mermaid loop, and Forbidden Antipattern Redlines Table) and MUST NOT exceed 32 KiB (32,768 bytes).


Quick Automation (Non-Interactive Generator Script)

To quickly analyze a repository and generate or preview an AGENTS.md file, run the non-interactive script:

# Preview generated content (dry-run)
python3 skills/neo-harness/scripts/generate-agents-md.py --target-dir /path/to/repo --dry-run

# Generate AGENTS.md directly in target repository
python3 skills/neo-harness/scripts/generate-agents-md.py --target-dir /path/to/repo --force

# Validate existing AGENTS.md against assets/AGENTS.md.template design specification
python3 skills/neo-harness/scripts/generate-agents-md.py --target-dir /path/to/repo --validate

Workflow SOP

Step 1 — Perceive Target Repository

  1. Inspect project root and structure manually or via scripts/generate-agents-md.py:
    • Configuration files: package.json, pyproject.toml, Cargo.toml, go.mod, Makefile, etc.
    • Build, lint, and test toolchains.
    • Existing guidelines: AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, GEMINI.md, README.
    • CI workflows: .github/workflows/, GitLab CI, etc.
  2. Identify primary languages, test suites, and fast local feedback sensors.

Read the full file on GitHub · 81 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files beside SKILL.md 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. 12d ago First seen · 81 lines · 89 tokens per session scan A f6baab20f208

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neo-harness is a skill published in the GitHub repository Benknightdark/neo-skills (7 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 89 tokens to every session and 1,098 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.