harness-setup

harness-setup is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from chocomyong/harness-kit. It costs 49 tokens per session (630 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A setup and maintenance process for repository rules, maps, and agent guidance. It either fills missing rule documents or folds the ideas into the repository's existing rules instead of installing a competing system.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to install or absorb harness-kit, fill placeholders in AGENTS.md and the repository map, and survey the code, history, documentation, and build scripts before writing rules.
Why use it?
It gives coding agents measured facts about the project while avoiding duplicated rules that can drift apart. It also requires human confirmation for the repository's most important invariant.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to install or absorb harness-kit, fill placeholders in AGENTS.md and the repository map, and survey the code, history, documentation, and build scripts before writing rules.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/chocomyong/harness-kit/harness-setup
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 chocomyong/harness-kit --skill harness-setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chocomyong/harness-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 630 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 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.
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 $0.00049 $0.00630
Opus 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00252
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00126
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00063

Measured 2d ago against content hash 3384e3a2a8f8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

harness-setup scanned grade C with 2 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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

`curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chocomyong/harness-kit/main/install.sh | sh`

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

`curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chocomyong/harness-kit/main/install.sh | sh`
skills/harness-setup/SKILL.md · 50 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 50 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Set up harness-kit in this repo

Decide which path applies, then follow only that path.

Which path

  • The repo has no rules docs (no AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, or house dev guide), or AGENTS.md still contains <PLACEHOLDER> marks -> Fill.
  • The repo already runs its own rules docs -> Absorb. Never install a second rules system beside an existing one: the same rule stated in two places drifts.

Fill

  1. If the kit files are not present yet, run the installer from the repo root: curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chocomyong/harness-kit/main/install.sh | sh It only adds files and never overwrites.
  2. Read AGENTS.md and WORK_PROTOCOL.md.
  3. Survey the repo: file tree, git log, README and other docs, build and deploy scripts.
  4. Fill every <PLACEHOLDER> in AGENTS.md and docs/REPO_MAP.md with measured facts about this repo. Each value comes from something you read here, not from what similar repos look like.
  5. Section 0 (the top invariant) is confirmed by the human. Propose candidates you found - a production datastore, a one-way sync, a paid API - with the file and line that suggested each. Never invent one.
  6. Keep AGENTS.md to rules only and under ~150 lines. Layout and names go to docs/REPO_MAP.md.
  7. Show the full diff and wait for confirmation before saving. Then delete the HTML guidance comments from the filled files.

Absorb

  1. Read harness-kit's MINIMAL.md and principles/absence-judgment.md.
  2. Read the repo's existing rules docs end to end.
  3. Propose the smallest set of edits that folds into the existing docs, in their language and format:
    • the top invariant stated at the top of the highest-authority doc,
    • absence-judgment as a named rule,
    • an index-first incident registry, seeded with lessons the team keeps re-explaining,
    • the three-question done check (ran / fails when wrong / measured in the right place).
  4. Where a kit idea duplicates one the repo already has, keep theirs and skip the kit's.
  5. Create no new rule files unless the user agrees. Show the diff before saving.

Read the full file on GitHub · 50 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 · 50 lines · 49 tokens per session scan C 3384e3a2a8f8

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harness-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository chocomyong/harness-kit (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 630 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-10-16.

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