# harness:deploy

This skill wraps up an agent evolution run by showing its results and offering to review changes, clean temporary files, or push a Git tag.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 57
- Author: raphaelchristi
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/raphaelchristi/harness-evolver/tree/HEAD/skills/deploy/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-04-18
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/harnessdeploy

## What it does

The skill reads `.evolver.json` to display the baseline and best scores, iteration count, and winning experiment. It also shows Git changes made since the evolution began, then asks which next step you want.

Choose a diff review, temporary-file cleanup, or a tagged push. The push creates a tag with the score and sends it with `main` to `origin`. You can also move proven findings into `CLAUDE.md`: the skill first runs `promote_learnings.py` with `--dry-run` and waits for approval before applying them. That push affects the remote repository, so review the changes before choosing it.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add raphaelchristi/harness-evolver --skill deploy -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/deploy/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/deploy/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add raphaelchristi/harness-evolver --skill deploy -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/deploy/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add raphaelchristi/harness-evolver --skill deploy -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/deploy/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install raphaelchristi/harness-evolver deploy
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/deploy/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add raphaelchristi/harness-evolver --skill deploy -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/raphaelchristi/harness-evolver --path skills/deploy
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/deploy/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add raphaelchristi/harness-evolver --skill deploy -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/raphaelchristi/harness-evolver/tree/HEAD/skills/deploy/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- inspect scores and the winning experiment after an evolution run
- review the Git diff from an evolution
- remove temporary files without pushing
- tag the result with its score and push it to `origin`
- preview findings before adding them to `CLAUDE.md`

## Example prompts
- Finish the agent evolution and show its scores and Git changes.
- Show the full evolution diff without pushing anything.
- Clean up temporary files, then preview findings for `CLAUDE.md`.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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````text
---
name: harness:deploy
description: "Use when the user is done evolving and wants to finalize, clean up, tag the result, or push the optimized agent."
allowed-tools: [Read, Write, Bash, Glob, AskUserQuestion]
---

# /harness:deploy

Finalize the evolution results. In v3, the best code is already in the main branch (auto-merged during evolve). Deploy is about cleanup, tagging, and pushing.

## What To Do

```bash
TOOLS="${EVOLVER_TOOLS:-$([ -d ".evolver/tools" ] && echo ".evolver/tools" || echo "$HOME/.evolver/tools")}"
EVOLVER_PY="${EVOLVER_PY:-$([ -f "$HOME/.evolver/venv/bin/python" ] && echo "$HOME/.evolver/venv/bin/python" || echo "python3")}"
```

### 1. Show Results

```bash
python3 -c "
import json
c = json.load(open('.evolver.json'))
baseline = c['history'][0]['score'] if c['history'] else 0
best = c['best_score']
improvement = best - baseline
print(f'Baseline: {baseline:.3f}')
print(f'Best: {best:.3f} (+{improvement:.3f}, {improvement/max(baseline,0.001)*100:.0f}% improvement)')
print(f'Iterations: {c[\"iterations\"]}')
print(f'Experiment: {c[\"best_experiment\"]}')
"
```

Show git diff from before evolution started:
```bash
git log --oneline --since="$(python3 -c "import json; print(json.load(open('.evolver.json'))['created_at'][:10])")" | head -20
```

### 2. Ask What To Do (interactive)

```json
{
  "questions": [{
    "question": "Evolution complete. What would you like to do?",
    "header": "Deploy",
    "multiSelect": false,
    "options": [
      {"label": "Tag and push", "description": "Create a git tag with the score and push to remote"},
      {"label": "Just review", "description": "Show the full diff of all changes made during evolution"},
      {"label": "Clean up only", "description": "Remove temporary files (trace_insights.json, etc.) but don't push"},
      {"label": "Promote learnings", "description": "Add proven evolution insights to CLAUDE.md (permanent knowledge)"}
    ]
  }]
}
```

### 3. Execute

**If "Tag and push"**:
```bash
VERSION=$(python3 -c "import json; c=json.load(open('.evolver.json')); print(f'evolver-v{c[\"iterations\"]}')")
SCORE=$(python3 -c "import json; print(f'{json.load(open(\".evolver.json\"))[\"best_score\"]:.3f}')")
git tag -a "$VERSION" -m "Evolver: score $SCORE"
git push origin main --tags
```

**If "Just review"**:
```bash
git diff HEAD~{iterations} HEAD
```

**If "Clean up only"**:
```bash
rm -f trace_insights.json best_results.json comparison.json production_seed.md production_seed.json
```

**If "Promote learnings"**:
```bash
$EVOLVER_PY $TOOLS/promote_learnings.py --memory evolution_memory.md --target CLAUDE.md --threshold 5 --dry-run
```

Show the dry-run output. If the user approves, run without `--dry-run`.

### 4. Report

- What was done
- LangSmith experiment URL for the best result
- Suggest reviewing the changes before deploying to production
````
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© raphaelchristi · MIT · https://github.com/raphaelchristi/harness-evolver/tree/HEAD/skills/deploy/SKILL.md

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