agent-systems-and-harnesses

agent-systems-and-harnesses is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jxoesneon/Ciel. It costs 28 tokens per session (531 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A framework for running long-lived AI agents, automated tests that challenge their work, and background task coordination.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to manage agent lifecycles, measure task results and costs, test live applications with Playwright, and run specification-based tasks without a user interface.
Why use it?
It addresses agents that need controlled starting and stopping, failure tracking, limited access, and independent quality checks.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to manage agent lifecycles, measure task results and costs, test live applications with Playwright, and run specification-based tasks without a user interface.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jxoesneon/ciel/agent-systems-and-harnesses
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 jxoesneon/Ciel --skill agent-systems-and-harnesses
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jxoesneon/Ciel

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 531 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.
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 $0.00028 $0.00531
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00266
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00106
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00053

Measured 10d ago against content hash 7ff313de57f8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-systems-and-harnesses 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 10d 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.

skills/agent-systems-and-harnesses/SKILL.md · 51 lines

What it actually says

CIEL ADAPTATION: Agent Systems (The Autonomy Layer)

This skill formalizes the operation of complex AI systems, from cloud-hosted workers to adversarial feedback loops.

Enterprise Agent Ops

  1. Lifecycle: HARD control over Start, Pause, Stop, and Restart. Hard timeouts on all turns.
  2. Observability: Track Success Rate, Cost per Task, and Failure Class Distribution.
  3. Least Privilege: Inject credentials via environment; PROHIBIT broad filesystem or network access without specific audit logs.

Adversarial Harnesses (GAN-Style)

  • Generator: Implements features based on spec and evaluator feedback.
  • Evaluator: Ruthlessly strict QA agent. Uses Playwright to test the LIVE app, not just code.
  • Pass Threshold: Target weighted score > 7.0 across Design, Craft, and Functionality.
  • Mandate: Evaluator MUST be a separate instance from Generator to prevent self-praising bias.

Headless Orchestration (GSD)

  • Spec-Driven: Launch builds via gsd headless new-milestone --context spec.md.
  • Polling: Use query for instant status snapshots (no LLM cost).
  • Blocked State: If exit code is 10, query for blocker details and steer or escalate to human.

Anti-Patterns

  • Self-Evaluation: Letting an agent approve its own PR or design.
  • Amnesiac Deployment: Restarting an agent fleet without reading the previous session's persistent memory.
  • Blind Auto-Build: Running an un-monitored GSD loop for > 30 minutes without a cost-limit cap.
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. 10d ago First seen · 51 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 7ff313de57f8

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agent-systems-and-harnesses is a skill published in the GitHub repository jxoesneon/Ciel (1 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 531 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.

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