What is create-service?

A tool for creating Harness services, which describe deployable applications and how to find their build artifacts. It supports deployment targets such as Kubernetes, Helm, ECS, serverless applications, SSH, and Windows remote management.

Use it to define services, select deployment manifests, and connect applications to artifact sources such as Docker Hub, Amazon ECR, Google registries, Azure Container Registry, Nexus, or S3.

It turns deployment details into a consistent Harness service definition instead of requiring the configuration to be written by hand.

create-service — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by 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 harness/harness-skills --skill create-service

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/harness/harness-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/harness/harness-skills/create-service"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/harness/harness-skills/create-service.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Per session 110 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,994 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00110	$0.01994
Opus 5	$0.00055	$0.00997
Sonnet 5	$0.00022	$0.00399
Haiku 4.5	$0.00011	$0.00199

Measured 9d ago against content hash 9f1dd620b614, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

create-service 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

create-service — 100% identical, 0 lines differ

skills/create-service/SKILL.md · 283 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 283 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Create Service

Generate Harness Service YAML and push to Harness via MCP.

Instructions

Detect service type from codebase (if source code is available) - Scan the project for deployment manifests to auto-select the correct serviceDefinition.type and manifest configuration:
- k8s/, kubernetes/, manifests/ with YAML files → Kubernetes with K8sManifest
- kustomization.yaml → Kubernetes with Kustomize
- Chart.yaml, charts/, helm/ → NativeHelm with HelmChart
- task-definition.json → ECS with EcsTaskDefinition
- serverless.yml / template.yaml (SAM) → ServerlessAwsLambda
- function.json (Azure) → AzureWebApp
- .NET + Windows → WinRm
- Traditional app (JAR/WAR) without containers → Ssh
- See create-pipeline/references/codebase-analysis.md Step 4 for the full decision tree
Detect artifact source - Match Dockerfile registry references to artifact source type:
- Docker Hub → DockerRegistry
- *.dkr.ecr.*.amazonaws.com → Ecr
- gcr.io / *-docker.pkg.dev → Gcr
- *.azurecr.io → Acr
Confirm with user - Present detected service type, manifest type, and artifact source for confirmation
Generate YAML following the structure below
Create via MCP using harness_create with resource_type service

Service Structure

service:
  name: My Service
  identifier: my_service
  orgIdentifier: default
  projectIdentifier: my_project
  serviceDefinition:
    type: Kubernetes        # Kubernetes, NativeHelm, ECS, ServerlessAwsLambda, Ssh, WinRm, AzureWebApp, AzureFunction, CustomDeployment
    spec:
      artifacts:
        primary:
          primaryArtifactRef: docker_image
          sources:
            - identifier: docker_image
              type: DockerRegistry
              spec:
                connectorRef: dockerhub
                imagePath: myorg/myimage
                tag: <+input>
      manifests:
        - manifest:
            identifier: k8s_manifest
            type: K8sManifest
            spec:
              store:
                type: Github
                spec:
                  connectorRef: github_connector
                  repoName: my-manifests
                  branch: main
                  paths: [manifests/]
      variables:
        - name: replicas
          type: String
          value: "3"

Read the full file on GitHub · 283 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.

9d ago First seen · 283 lines · 110 tokens per session scan A 9f1dd620b614

Subscribe to this mod's changes

create-service is a skill published in the GitHub repository harness/harness-skills (104 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 110 tokens to every session and 1,994 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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