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---
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)` 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"'
```

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.

Parameter names follow the shared CLI naming rules. `/investor_profile` uses
`--dataset` (legacy alias `--source-dataset`); `/suggested_startups` uses
`--investors` (legacy alias `--investor`). Positional selectors remain supported:
single-startup commands use `startup`, while `/submission_ready` takes `startups`.

## References

- [Dispatcher and command registry](harness.py)
- [CLI and interactive handling](__main__.py)
- [CLI contracts](../standards_and_architecture/SKILL.md#cli-and-harness)