# harness

Describe your project in one sentence and the plugin turns it into a team of agents plus the skills they use. Useful when a task outgrows a single agent.

- plugin · `type=plugin` · Claude Code · ★ 9256
- Author: revfactory
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/revfactory/harness
- Updated: 2026-09-28
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/plugins/harness

## What it does

harness is a team-architecture factory for Claude. It walks seven phases: audit of the existing setup, domain analysis, execution-mode choice, agent definitions in `.claude/agents/`, skill generation in `.claude/skills/`, orchestration with a `CLAUDE.md` pointer, then verification and maintenance. Everything it writes is plain files you can read and edit.

The execution mode follows the shape of the control flow, not team size. Deterministic fan-outs and verification loops become workflow scripts, long-lived specialists become named agents with `SendMessage` and shared task lists, and one-shot parallel work goes to sub-agents. Model tier is picked per agent, so blanket pins are off the table.

Version 2 targets the current runtime. The experimental `CLAUDE_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_AGENT_TEAMS=1` flag is gone, and v1 artifacts such as `TeamCreate` are detected in phase 0 with a mechanical migration offered. No environment variables are needed to install.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

**Plugin marketplace**
In the agent chat (not a shell):
```text
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-community
```
In the agent chat (not a shell):
```text
/plugin install harness@claude-community
```

## When to use it
- split a large task into a team of agents with distinct roles
- generate skills tailored to a project's domain
- pick an execution mode that matches the control flow
- migrate an agent setup from v1 to the current runtime
- run an A/B check of a skill with and without it

## Example prompts
- build a harness for this project
- design an agent team for payment processing
- evolve the harness with this feedback

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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  <sub>15-second motion reel · <a href="https://revfactory.github.io/harness-animation/">Watch the full 2-minute interactive walkthrough (Korean) →</a></sub>
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# Harness v2 — The Team-Architecture Factory for Claude Code

**English** | [한국어](README_KO.md)

> **Harness is a team-architecture factory for Claude Code.** One sentence — **"build a harness for this project"** · **"하네스 구성해줘"** — and the plugin turns your domain description into an agent team and the skills they use.

## What's new in v2

v2 is a ground-up rebuild for the current Claude Code multi-agent runtime:

- **Three native execution modes.** v1 knew two modes built on the experimental `TeamCreate` API, which no longer exists. v2 targets what actually ships today:
  1. **Workflow orchestration** — deterministic scripts (`pipeline()` / `parallel()` / schemas / budgets) for fan-outs, verification loops, and large-scale runs
  2. **Persistent agent collaboration** — named agents + `SendMessage` + shared task lists, with context retained across turns
  3. **Sub-agent delegation** — lightweight one-shot parallel dispatch
- **Workflow-native quality patterns.** Adversarial verification, judge panels, loop-until-dry, multi-modal sweeps, completeness critics — codified so generated harnesses filter out plausible-but-wrong output.
- **No experimental flags.** The `CLAUDE_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_AGENT_TEAMS=1` dependency is gone entirely.
- **Sane model policy.** v1 pinned every agent to `model: "opus"`. v2 selects a tier per agent — fable / opus / sonnet — based on the task's complexity, duration, autonomy, and latency needs, and forbids unjustified blanket pins.
- **`/harness:evolve` actually ships.** The evolution mechanism v1 only documented is now a real skill: it captures the delta between your initial and current harness, generalizes feedback, and feeds it back into agents/skills/orchestrators.
- **v1 migration built in.** The factory detects v1 artifacts (`TeamCreate`, `TeamDelete`, experimental flags) and offers a mechanical migration path.

## Core features

- **Agent team design** — six architecture patterns (Pipeline, Fan-out/Fan-in, Expert Pool, Producer-Reviewer, Supervisor, Hierarchical Delegation), each mapped to its best v2 execution mode
- **Skill generation** — context-efficient skills via Progressive Disclosure
- **Orchestration** — data-passing protocols (structured schemas, files, messages, tasks), error handling, resume support
- **Verification** — trigger evals, dry runs, with-skill vs. without-skill A/B testing (optionally as a workflow itself)
- **Evolution** — `/harness:evolve` turns usage feedback into measurable next-generation improvements

## Workflow

```
Phase 0: Audit existing harness (new / extend / maintain — v1 artifacts detected here)
Phase 1: Domain analysis (incl. control-flow shape of the work)
Phase 2: Execution mode & team architecture design
Phase 3: Agent definitions (.claude/agents/)
Phase 4: Skill generation (.claude/skills/)
Phase 5: Orchestration & CLAUDE.md pointer
Phase 6: Verification & testing
Phase 7: Maintenance — evolution via /harness:evolve
```

## Install

### Via marketplace

```shell
/plugin marketplace add revfactory/harness
/plugin install harness@harness-marketplace
```

### As global skills

```shell
cp -r skills/harness ~/.claude/skills/harness
````
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