create-template

create-template is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from harness/harness-ai. It costs 89 tokens per session (1,497 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of create-template, Apache-2.0.

A tool for creating reusable Harness pipeline templates in YAML. Harness is a platform for defining and running software delivery workflows.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create reusable steps, stages, complete pipelines, or groups of steps with values supplied when they run.
Why use it?
It avoids rewriting the same pipeline steps or stages for different projects by turning them into configurable templates.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the harness plugin — 55 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/harness/harness-ai/create-template
Any agent
npx skills add harness/harness-ai --skill create-template
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/harness/harness-ai

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install harness, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 55 skills, 1 MCP server.

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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 1,497 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00089 $0.01497
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00749
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00299
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00150

Measured 4d ago against content hash 18b507960e71, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

create-template 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 4d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to create-template — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugins/claude/skills/create-template/SKILL.md · 256 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 256 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Create Template

Generate Harness v0 Template YAML for reusable components and push via MCP.

Instructions

  1. Determine template type - Step, Stage, Pipeline, or StepGroup
  2. Identify reusable parameters - Mark configurable fields with <+input> for runtime inputs
  3. Generate YAML using the structure below with a unique versionLabel
  4. Create via MCP using harness_create with resource_type template
  5. Verify creation using harness_list with resource_type template

Template Types

  • Step - Reusable step definitions
  • Stage - Reusable stage definitions
  • Pipeline - Complete reusable pipelines
  • StepGroup - Groups of related steps

Template Structure

template:
  name: My Template
  identifier: my_template
  versionLabel: "1.0.0"
  type: Step           # Step, Stage, Pipeline, StepGroup
  orgIdentifier: default
  projectIdentifier: my_project
  tags: {}
  spec: ...            # Content depends on type

Step Template

template:
  name: Docker Build Push
  identifier: docker_build_push
  versionLabel: "1.0.0"
  type: Step
  spec:
    type: BuildAndPushDockerRegistry
    spec:
      connectorRef: <+input>
      repo: <+input>
      tags: <+input>
      dockerfile: Dockerfile
      context: .
    timeout: 15m

Stage Template

template:
  name: K8s Deploy Stage
  identifier: k8s_deploy_stage
  versionLabel: "1.0.0"
  type: Stage
  spec:
    type: Deployment
    spec:
      deploymentType: Kubernetes
      service:
        serviceRef: <+input>
      environment:
        environmentRef: <+input>
        infrastructureDefinitions:
          - identifier: <+input>
      execution:
        steps:
          - step:
              identifier: rollout
              name: Rollout
              type: K8sRollingDeploy
              spec:
                skipDryRun: false
              timeout: 10m
        rollbackSteps:
          - step:
              identifier: rollback
              name: Rollback
              type: K8sRollingRollback
              spec: {}
              timeout: 10m
    failureStrategies:
      - onFailure:
          errors: [AllErrors]
          action:
            type: StageRollback

Read the full file on GitHub · 256 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. 4d ago First seen · 256 lines · 89 tokens per session scan A 18b507960e71

Subscribe to this mod's changes

create-template is a skill published in the GitHub repository harness/harness-ai (19 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 89 tokens to every session and 1,497 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to create-template, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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