harness-discipline

harness-discipline is a skill for Claude Code from Lee-W/maigo. It costs 0 tokens per session (3,077 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for an orchestrator, the part of an agent system that assigns and tracks work. It covers when to delegate tasks, preserve acceptance criteria, and report results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it in the specified Claude Code setup with the maigo orchestrator to decide when to use subagents, maintain task plans, and record verification results.
Why use it?
Long coding tasks can lose requirements after context is shortened, or become inefficient when handled entirely in the main conversation.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the maigo plugin — 24 skills, 15 commands, 5 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it in the specified Claude Code setup with the maigo orchestrator to decide when to use subagents, maintain task plans, and record verification results.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lee-w/maigo/harness-discipline
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 Lee-W/maigo --skill harness-discipline
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Lee-W/maigo

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install maigo, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 24 skills, 15 commands, 5 agents, 5 hooks.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,077 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 $0.00000 $0.03077
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01538
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00615
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00308

Measured yesterday against content hash 67e6d09f3604, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

harness-discipline 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 yesterday.

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/harness-discipline/SKILL.md · 155 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 155 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Harness Discipline

Owner: orchestrator Consumers: maigo orchestrator,在 Claude Code harness 下執行任何 /maigo:* 命令時

只在 Claude Code harness 下適用——這裡的 orchestrator 主線 context 是最貴的 token(塞進 主線的每一行都在後續每一輪重複計費),且可能被 session 壓縮、可 spawn subagent 分攤負載。 沒有 subagent 能力的 harness 不適用本 skill。

委派門檻

任一成立就必須派 subagent,orchestrator 只讀結論,不親自下場:

  • 預估要開 4 個以上檔案,或合計讀 400 行以上
  • 要跑輸出無法預估上限的指令(整包 test suite、git log -p、爬網頁)
  • 同一種修改要套用到 3 個以上檔案

回報合約

交辦 subagent 的 prompt 照抄以下段落:

  • 只回結論、逐條驗收結果、檔案:行號 引用
  • 長產物(diff、報告、log):寫到檔案,回傳路徑,禁止貼原文超過 20 行
  • 失敗時:回「試了什麼/錯誤原文最後 10 行/卡在哪」,不要只回「失敗了」

Task-state 防失焦

任務預估超過 10 輪工具呼叫,或涉及多個交付物,適用以下流程:

  1. 動工前把目標/驗收條件(逐條可勾)/明確不做的事寫進 plan 檔——呼叫 scripts/artifact_path.py plan --topic "Plan: <任務名>" 取得路徑(歸屬規則見 references/artifact-ownership.md)。
  2. 每完成一項立刻存檔、立刻更新該項的勾選狀態——存檔的就是全部,沒存的等於沒做。
  3. 察覺 context 被壓縮過(開頭出現 summary)時,用同一支 script 帶同樣的 --topic 重新算出路徑再讀,不要憑記憶回想檔名——四級識別碼鏈就是設計成事後可重新推導; 不信任摘要裡的轉述,摘要會讓原始驗收條件的細節失真。
  4. 使用者中途的更正,當下就寫回該 plan 檔,不是只記在對話裡。新路徑讀不到但舊 .maigo/plan.md 存在時可退回讀舊檔繼續,下一次寫入一律寫到新路徑,不回寫舊檔。

.maigo/ 產物歸屬

.maigo/ 底下 agent 寫的 markdown 產物(plan / review-rubric / review / triage-rubric / pr-comments 這類)一律呼叫 scripts/artifact_path.py 取路徑,不要自己組檔名、 也不要自己記得比對 H1——判斷邏輯在有測試把關的程式碼裡,散文只提醒你呼叫它。 完整規則見 references/artifact-ownership.md

驗證紀律

  • 寫的人不驗自己的產出——驗證一律派 fresh-context subagent(沒參與產出過程的)。
  • 檔案類產物 → read-back:讀回來逐條對照驗收條件。
  • 程式碼類產物 → 跑測試或實跑,以 exit code 為準,不採信任何敘述性的「應該可以」。
  • 要填任何型號/參數/欄位名/旗標,必須有本次 session 內的實據(tool schema、官方 文件、實跑輸出);三者都查不到 → 標「未確認」,絕不憑印象編造。
  • 證據必須獨立於嫌疑來源:斷言資料狀態要先查 git 歷史、判監控工具要取帶外真相、 分析自產 log 要用結構化欄位而非 substring、定罪某次改動要跑對照組、單點觀測不能 當全稱結論(換一個會改變結果的觀測點來隔離)——八個具體案例見 references/evidence-discipline.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 155 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. yesterday Changed 67e6d09f3604
  2. 10d ago First seen · 155 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 9b976074ab5e

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harness-discipline is a skill published in the GitHub repository Lee-W/maigo (14 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 3,077 tokens. 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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