harness-observability SKILL.md skillA
harness-observability from habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers/harness-observability@git:20260419.f10e996Pins git:20260419.f10e996 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers
- Path
ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/harness-observability/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260419.f10e996, committed Apr 19, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 6, 2026
- Size
- 5,625 bytes
- Repository stars
- 121
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
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.
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
# 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@sha256:3c4174f6040ab0b2The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260419.f10e996, 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 3 versions of this file, between Apr 6, 2026 and Apr 19, 2026, about one every 7 days.
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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 |
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Source
habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers · 121 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-10-19 · 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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