harness-engineering

harness-engineering is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from thaifurforo/ai-toolkit. It costs 213 tokens per session (3,324 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A complete AI-assisted software development workflow, from a product requirements document through architecture, coding, review, tests, documentation, and delivery automation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan and build software with linked requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, tasks, tests, code checks, reviews, and documentation.
Why use it?
It gives the coding agent project context and uses automated checks and reviews to catch problems before a person receives the work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md; mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to plan and build software with linked requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, tasks, tests, code checks, reviews, and documentation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/thaifurforo/ai-toolkit/harness-engineering
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 thaifurforo/ai-toolkit --skill harness-engineering
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/thaifurforo/ai-toolkit

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.

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README.md
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Per session 213 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,324 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 $0.00213 $0.03324
Opus 5 $0.00106 $0.01662
Sonnet 5 $0.00043 $0.00665
Haiku 4.5 $0.00021 $0.00332

Measured 7d ago against content hash 2d51da9312f5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

harness-engineering 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 7d 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-engineering/SKILL.md · 260 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 260 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Harness Engineering

"O gargalo nunca foi a capacidade do agente de escrever código — foi a falta de estrutura, ferramentas e mecanismos de feedback ao seu redor." — OpenAI Engineering Blog, 2026

Pipeline de desenvolvimento com IA que transforma uma ideia em software confiável, combinando guias (feedforward) e sensores (feedback) que permitem autocorreção antes de chegar ao humano.


Modelo mental: Guias + Sensores

Guias (feedforward — antes de agir):

  • O agente tem o contexto certo? (PRD, arquitetura, convenções)
  • As restrições estão codificadas? (linters, tipos, estrutura de camadas)
  • A documentação existe como sistema de record? (.catalog/, AGENTS.md, tracking configurado)

Sensores (feedback — após agir):

  • Computacionais: testes, linters, type check, análise estrutural (rápidos, determinísticos)
  • Inferenciais: code review por IA, "LLM como juiz" (mais lentos, semânticos)

Regra: sensores computacionais rodam a cada commit. Sensores inferenciais rodam antes do PR e no pipeline.


Sistema de IDs — fio de rastreabilidade

RF-01 (PRD) → US-01 (story) → CA-01 (critério) → T-01 (task) → teste que verifica CA-01

Nunca crie tasks sem RF. Nunca feche task sem gate verificado. Nunca abra PR sem CA validados.


Tracking e release são eixos separados

Leia project_tracking.tool e release_management.strategy em harness.config.yaml antes de criar documentação, issues, milestones, changelog ou release notes.

Eixo Campo Valores suportados Decide
Gestão de projeto project_tracking.tool github, jira, linear, azuredevops, local Onde vivem PRD, agrupamentos, user stories, tasks e status
Versionamento de release release_management.strategy github-auto-release, github-legacy, release-please, manual-changelog, none Como versionar, gerar changelog e publicar releases

Presets como github-auto-release e github-legacy são atalhos que preenchem os dois eixos quando o usuário quiser GitHub para tudo. Eles não impedem combinações como project_tracking.tool: jira + release_management.strategy: github-auto-release.

Read the full file on GitHub · 260 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 7d ago First seen · 260 lines · 213 tokens per session scan A 2d51da9312f5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

harness-engineering is a skill published in the GitHub repository thaifurforo/ai-toolkit (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 213 tokens to every session and 3,324 once invoked, about $0.0011 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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