git:20260906.f9cef19 to git:20260906.e8234c2

8 added, 3 removed. Audit A to A.

---

name: harness

description: Run SICTIC-AI workflows through slash commands in an interactive terminal or one-shot CLI. Use for invoking supported skills and inspecting command help.

---

# Harness

Dispatch supported slash commands to their existing Python workflows.

## Operations and effects

- `dispatch_command(line)` returns formatted output text. The command registry

+ `dispatch_command(line)` accepts command text or a list of already-parsed tokens

+ and returns formatted output text. The command registry

in `harness.py` owns exposure and argument parsing; it is separate from the bulk

registry. Individual skills own business logic and side effects.

Interactive mode needs terminal stdin. One-shot mode runs one command and closes

model sessions. `/help` lists routes; `/exit` ends interactive use.

The dispatcher converts ordinary command exceptions into `Error:` text, so

a one-shot process exit code alone does not prove business success.

## Usage

Interactive:

```bash

conda run -n sictic-env --no-capture-output python -m skills.harness

```

One-shot:

```bash

conda run -n sictic-env python -m skills.harness /help

+ conda run -n sictic-env python -m skills.harness /team_profile "Example Startup"

+ conda run -n sictic-env python -m skills.harness -- /advocates "Example Event" --description "Panel on startup financing"

conda run -n sictic-env python -m skills.harness '/advocates "Example Event" --description "Panel on startup financing"'

```

- Quote the entire slash command and retain inner double quotes around multiword

- arguments. This preserves options and grouping through the outer CLI.

+ Ordinary shell quoting preserves multiword arguments. Put `--` before the slash

+ command when passing skill options separately, so the outer CLI does not consume

+ them. A whole quoted command remains supported; retain inner double quotes around

+ its multiword values. Interactive command text uses the same inner quoting.

## References

- [Dispatcher and command registry](harness.py)

- [CLI and interactive handling](__main__.py)

- [CLI contracts](../standards_and_architecture/SKILL.md#cli-and-harness)