approve-exempt SKILL.md skillA
approve-exempt from harness/harness-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add harness/harness-skills/approve-exempt@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
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- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- harness/harness-skills
- Path
skills/security/approve-exempt/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Oct 14, 2026
- Size
- 23,265 bytes
- Repository stars
- 122
- License
- Apache-2.0
Approve pending Harness STO security exemptions (waivers) at their current scope or elevate them to Project, Org, or Account scope. Users say "approve" for both in-scope approval and higher-scope elevation — do not require the word "promote". Supports approving one exemption or a mixed list where each row has a different approval scope. Default workflow lists pending exemptions in chat (paginated preview) so the user picks by row number — no copying from the Harness UI. Use when a user wants…
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What the file says
# Approve Exemption Approve one or more **Pending** STO security exemptions. This skill covers the approval workflow after someone has requested an exemption (see `/exempt-vuln` for creation). **Pending scope is only `PROJECT`, `PIPELINE`, or `TARGET`.** Exemptions are *requested* at project, pipeline, or target scope only (All Issues → project; Vulnerabilities tab → project, pipeline, or target). STO does not create pending requests at org or account scope — those wider scopes exist only **after** elevation on approve (`body.scope` `ORG` or `ACCOUNT`). You will not see `scope: ORG` or `scope: ACCOUNT` on rows from `status: Pending` in normal flows. If a list row shows `ORG`/`ACCOUNT`, it is already approved/widened (re-approve or a different workflow), not a fresh pending request this skill targets. Harness exposes two different "scope" ideas — do not mix them up: | Concept | What it controls | How you use it | |---|---|---| | **Listing scope** | Which project's exemption queue you read | Always list at **project** scope. Never pass `resource_scope='account'` or `'org'` to `harness_list`. | …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add harness/harness-skills/approve-exempt@sha256:53b1415ba5f42b45The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 14, 2026.
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Source
harness/harness-skills · 122 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-14 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3qz3qtu6bsf4rbvw GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=harness/harness-skills/approve-exempt GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/53b1415ba5f42b458982dd3489ef702ac390cb2661211ade1a31ef7c2effef4c
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Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.