harness-boundary

harness-boundary is a skill for Claude Code from shimo4228/claude-harness. It costs 372 tokens per session (2,866 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design-review guide for separating the different kinds of work inside an AI coding setup, such as model abilities, procedures, policies, quality checks, data, and runtime behavior. A harness is the surrounding system that connects the model to tools and tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding, changing, or reviewing mechanisms in an AI coding harness, especially when judging ownership, portability, and likely obsolescence.
Why use it?
It helps reveal which parts are reusable knowledge and which parts only compensate for a particular model or runtime, so outdated pieces can be simplified or removed.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it when adding, changing, or reviewing mechanisms in an AI coding harness, especially when judging ownership, portability, and likely obsolescence.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/shimo4228/claude-harness/harness-boundary
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add shimo4228/claude-harness --skill harness-boundary
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shimo4228/claude-harness

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 372 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,866 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 $0.00372 $0.02866
Opus 5 $0.00186 $0.01433
Sonnet 5 $0.00074 $0.00573
Haiku 4.5 $0.00037 $0.00287

Measured 10d ago against content hash e3489dad06ad, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

harness-boundary 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/harness-boundary/SKILL.md · 130 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 130 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

harness-boundary — harness を捨てても残るものだけを資産にする設計レンズ

「ハーネスこそ資産」は半分しか正しくない。モデル固有の弱点を補う harness logic は モデル世代ごとに陳腐化し、runtime(tool 実行・permission・state・retry・agent loop)は 標準化と置換が進む。残るのは harness の中に混在している別の層だ。この skill は mechanism を追加・変更・レビューするときに、その混在を分解するための問いを出す。

これは architecture の強制ではなく、資産境界・可搬性・陳腐化を判断するレンズである。

中心原則

  • Model capability はモデルに置く。harness で再実装しない
  • Procedural knowledge は skill に置く
  • Values と責任境界は明示的で検査可能な形に保つ
  • Quality の定義は eval に置く
  • Domain 知識と履歴は data / memory に置く
  • Runtime は実用上できる限り薄く、交換可能に保つ

そして: harness を保存するために最適化しない。harness を交換しても残るべきものを 保存するために最適化する。 新しいモデルが既存 logic を不要にしたなら、それは設計の 失敗ではなく削除のタイミングである。Delete / Simplify は成功として扱う。

6 層

中身 この harness での対応物 既存語彙
Model capability reasoning / planning / coding / tool-use 判断 / self-correction / decomposition / reflection Claude 本体(system prompt + tool description を含む) substrate、generation-audit の runtime 層
Skills(手続き記憶) この task はこの手順 / このレビューはこの観点 / この障害はこの runbook / この成果物はこの検証 skills/*/SKILL.mdagents/*.md の本文 「手順は skill」(rules/README.md)
Values / Policies / 責任境界 何を優先するか / 何をしないか / 人間承認が要る操作 / 委譲範囲 / 正本 / 失敗時の優先 rules/common/(identity / values 層、ADR-0018 D7)、settings.json の permissions、task request の権限 「環境固有の事実・配線・罠」(ADR-0035)
Evals acceptance criteria / tests / rubric / benchmark / regression / quality gate .claude/verify.shtests/skill-complyllm-as-judge、judge agent(readme-judge 等) Verify、binding 判定
Data / Memory 成果物 / decision history / domain 知識 / preferences / provenance / 履歴状態 docs/adr/、auto-memory、.notes/metrics/*.jsonl、wiki ADR = 日付つき仮説
Runtime tool calling / shell・fs / permission 実装 / sandbox / connector / retry / logging / state / routing / agent loop Claude Code 本体、hooks/*.sh、MCP server、Workflow / Agent tool、launchd tick control plane(ADR-0019)、hook は時刻(ADR-0035)

hooks は runtime 層に座るが、policy を黙って encode しやすい(例: 承認 gate の条件、 何を block するか)。hook を見るときは「時刻の配線」と「中に埋まった policy」を分けて、 後者は rule / ADR に見える形で出ているかを問う。

Read the full file on GitHub · 130 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. 10d ago First seen · 130 lines · 372 tokens per session scan A e3489dad06ad

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harness-boundary is a skill published in the GitHub repository shimo4228/claude-harness (3 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 372 tokens to every session and 2,866 once invoked, about $0.0019 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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