harness-development

harness-development is a skill for Codex from paradigmxyz/centaur. It costs 79 tokens per session (1,385 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

Development guidance for adding, changing, or debugging Centaur’s server backends, which connect the system to coding-agent command-line tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for adding harness command-line support, changing Codex App Server V2 message handling, investigating Claude Code, Amp, or Codex behavior, removing Python or TypeScript normalizers, and comparing real-agent behavior.
Why use it?
It helps keep different coding agents’ messages, streaming output, and steering controls working consistently through one server layer.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

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/paradigmxyz/centaur/harness-development
Any agent
npx skills add paradigmxyz/centaur --skill harness-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/paradigmxyz/centaur

Made for: 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.

agentmods badge for harness-development

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/paradigmxyz/centaur/harness-development.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/paradigmxyz/centaur/harness-development)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/paradigmxyz/centaur/harness-development"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/paradigmxyz/centaur/harness-development.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 79 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,385 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00079 $0.01385
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00692
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00277
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00138

Measured 6d ago against content hash 507e017b6376, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

harness-development 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 6d 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.

.agents/skills/harness-development/SKILL.md · 114 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 6d ago First seen · 114 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A 507e017b6376

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harness-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository paradigmxyz/centaur (1,222 stars, last pushed yesterday), with no licence file. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 1,385 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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