setup SKILL.md skillA
setup from jrenaldi79/harness-engineering is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add jrenaldi79/harness-engineering/setup@git:20261019.b396b4dPins git:20261019.b396b4d in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- jrenaldi79/harness-engineering
- Path
skills/setup/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 8
- Latest version
- git:20261019.b396b4d, committed Oct 19, 2026
- First version recorded
- Mar 22, 2026
- Size
- 12,994 bytes
- Repository stars
- 69
- License
- MIT
Use when the user wants to set up a new project or add enforcement tooling (TDD, secret scanning, file size limits, git hooks, CLAUDE.md templates) to an existing project. Also use when the user says "bootstrap", "scaffold", "set up my project", or "add quality enforcement".
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
## Resource Resolution Preamble Before any other step, resolve the skill's install directory: ```bash SKILL_DIR=$(find ~/.claude/plugins -path "*/setup/SKILL.md" -print -quit | xargs dirname) SCRIPTS_DIR=$SKILL_DIR/scripts TEMPLATES_DIR=$SKILL_DIR/templates REFERENCES_DIR=$SKILL_DIR/references ``` If `SKILL_DIR` is empty, halt and tell the user: "Could not locate the setup plugin directory under ~/.claude/plugins. Verify the plugin is installed." --- ## Phase 1: Detect Environment Check the working directory for these manifest files: `package.json`, `pyproject.toml`, `CMakeLists.txt`, `go.mod`, `Cargo.toml`, `Makefile`. Also check for: `.git/`, `src/`, existing `CLAUDE.md`. Determine: - **New project** — no manifest, no `.git/`, effectively an empty directory - **Existing project** — manifest file present; infer language and stack from it For existing projects, record the detected stack so Phase 2 questions can be skipped where answers are already known. --- ## Phase 2: Socratic Questions Use the AskUserQuestion tool for each question, one at a time. Adapt or skip questions based on what was detected in Phase 1. **Q1 — Purpose** (always ask): …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add jrenaldi79/harness-engineering/setup@sha256:76a9bab35c23addbThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261019.b396b4d, 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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Versions
The registry has recorded 8 versions of this file, between Mar 22, 2026 and Oct 19, 2026, about one every 30 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261019.b396b4d latest | 2026-10-19 | b396b4d | 12,994 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261018.251706e | 2026-10-18 | 251706e | 11,481 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261018.6706770 | 2026-10-18 | 6706770 | 11,061 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261006.1781fa6 | 2026-10-06 | 1781fa6 | 10,923 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260324.b962bfa | 2026-03-24 | b962bfa | 10,104 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260323.4d61af8 | 2026-03-23 | 4d61af8 | 8,298 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260323.17dbc01 | 2026-03-23 | 17dbc01 | 8,247 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260322.36dd887 | 2026-03-22 | 36dd887 | 7,814 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (12994 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
jrenaldi79/harness-engineering · 69 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_54mtdolhvthom5sm GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jrenaldi79/harness-engineering/setup GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/76a9bab35c23addb90956e6e72c98b5fe06af0b56fbf478158435d2a65d53401
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
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.
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