Harness-Starter: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/harness-mode/SKILL.md

harness-mode is a skill for Claude Code from chenklein26-maker/Harness-Starter. It costs 39 tokens per session (466 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for changing Harness, a development workflow's current mode and phase. Modes control how strict the checks are, while phases describe whether you are designing, building, or fixing code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to switch between full, hotfix, and tweak modes; change the design, build, or fix phase; and view the current workflow state.
Why use it?
It lets the workflow match the kind of work being done, such as a quick emergency fix or a normal feature build. The selected state is saved for later commands to use.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

This is chenklein26-maker/Harness-Starter's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on Harness-Starter 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-Starter configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to chenklein26-maker/Harness-Starter. 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/chenklein26-maker/Harness-Starter/main/.claude/skills/harness-mode/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chenklein26-maker/Harness-Starter

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 466 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Privilege Escalation · line 17
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
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 $0.00039 $0.00466
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00233
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00093
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00047

Measured 9d ago against content hash 93b81d0bde8b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

harness-mode 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 9d 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/skills/harness-mode/SKILL.md · 56 lines

What it actually says

Harness Mode

管理 .claude/.harness-state,控制 Harness 的行为策略。

支持的命令

切换模式

/harness-mode full     → 完整检查,所有规则生效
/harness-mode hotfix   → 紧急修复,跳过行数/文件数检查
/harness-mode tweak    → 微调模式,仅 .env 保护

切换阶段

/harness-phase design  → 设计阶段,宽松审查
/harness-phase build   → 构建阶段,正常审查
/harness-phase fix     → 修复阶段,收紧变更范围检查

查看当前状态

/harness-status        → 显示当前阶段和模式

执行逻辑

当用户输入上述命令时:

  1. 读取 .claude/.harness-state(不存在则创建默认值 {"phase":"build","mode":"full"}
  2. 修改对应的 modephase 字段
  3. 更新 since 为当前时间
  4. 写入文件
  5. 回显新状态

模式联动

  • 切换到 hotfix 模式时,自动将 phase 设为 fix
  • 切换到 tweak 模式时,自动将 phase 设为 design

示例

用户:/harness-mode hotfix → 写入 {"phase":"fix","mode":"hotfix","since":"2026-06-01T12:00:00Z"} → 回复:「已切换到热修复模式:阶段=fix, 模式=hotfix。将跳过行数/文件数检查。」

用户:/harness-status → 回复:「当前 Harness 状态:阶段=build, 模式=full (since 2026-06-01T10:00:00Z)」

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. 9d ago First seen · 56 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 93b81d0bde8b

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harness-mode is a skill published in the GitHub repository chenklein26-maker/Harness-Starter (119 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 466 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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