harness-observability skillA
harness-observability is agent-read markdown (skill) from habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers: Use when checking harness health, setting up observability cadences, understanding snapshot formats, configuring telemetry export, or verifying that the harness's own observability is working — covers all four layers of harness observability.
Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.
What the file says
# Harness Observability Harness observability is the measurement layer that makes context engineering, architectural constraints, and garbage collection evidence-based rather than intuition-based. Without it, a harness is infrastructure you hope works. With it, you know. This skill covers four layers of observability, each answering a different question at a different timescale. This skill does not cover CI workflow configuration (middle loop), individual constraint design, or garbage collection rule authoring — those belong to their respective skills. It covers how to observe whether those mechanisms are operating effectively. For the snapshot schema and field definitions, consult `references/snapshot-format.md`. The snapshot includes a Diaboli panel (after Session Quality, before Operational Cadence) that surfaces advocatus-diaboli activity as descriptive stats across all objection records. ## The Four Layers | Layer | Question | Timescale | Consumer | | ------- | ---------- | ----------- | ---------- | | Operational Cadence | "Is the harness running?" | Session / weekly / quarterly | Developer in session | …
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How to install
mdr add habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers/harness-observability@git:20260419.f10e996mdr add habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers/harness-observability@sha256:3c4174f6040ab0b2Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_l7nymuyiki2boe43)
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Versions
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260419.f10e996 latest | 2026-04-19 | f10e996 | 5,625 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260415.bb944ba | 2026-04-15 | bb944ba | 5,443 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260406.60a61ca | 2026-04-06 | 60a61ca | 5,415 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 (5625 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
habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers · 106 stars · license NOASSERTION · pushed 2026-09-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_l7nymuyiki2boe43 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers/harness-observability GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3c4174f6040ab0b23a3e422a7dc6edea36d6f6a83627ffe121bddb7289d0440c
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