create-template SKILL.md skillA
create-template from harness/harness-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add harness/harness-skills/create-template@v2.0.0Pins v2.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- harness/harness-skills
- Path
skills/pipelines/create-template/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v2.0.0, committed Oct 14, 2026
- Size
- 6,457 bytes
- Repository stars
- 122
- License
- Apache-2.0
Generate Harness v0 Template YAML for reusable pipeline components (Step, Stage, Pipeline, StepGroup) and create them via MCP. Use when asked to create a template, build a step template, stage template, pipeline template, or reusable step. Do NOT use for checking template usage or references (use template-usage instead). Trigger phrases: create template, step template, stage template, pipeline template, reusable step, template YAML.
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
# Create Template
Generate Harness v0 Template YAML for reusable components and push via MCP.
## Instructions
1. **Determine template type** - Step, Stage, Pipeline, or StepGroup
2. **Identify reusable parameters** - Mark configurable fields with `<+input>` for runtime inputs
3. **Generate YAML** using the structure below with a unique `versionLabel`
4. **Create via MCP** using `harness_create` with resource_type `template`
5. **Verify creation** using `harness_list` with resource_type `template`
## Template Types
- **Step** - Reusable step definitions
- **Stage** - Reusable stage definitions
- **Pipeline** - Complete reusable pipelines
- **StepGroup** - Groups of related steps
## Template Structure
```yaml
template:
name: My Template
identifier: my_template
versionLabel: "1.0.0"
type: Step # Step, Stage, Pipeline, StepGroup
orgIdentifier: default
projectIdentifier: my_project
tags: {}
spec: ... # Content depends on type
```
## Step Template
```yaml
template:
name: Docker Build Push
identifier: docker_build_push
versionLabel: "1.0.0"
type: Step
spec:
type: BuildAndPushDockerRegistry
spec:
connectorRef: <+input>
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add harness/harness-skills/create-template@sha256:73a6b8370fa300e7The line at the top of this page pins the label v2.0.0, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_mu5zwxidfbl3lwyp)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 14, 2026.
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 (6457 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
harness/harness-skills · 122 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-14 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_mu5zwxidfbl3lwyp GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=harness/harness-skills/create-template GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/73a6b8370fa300e7384f99f9dcba2df48ac7093afc1532c39a17bf8720909163
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.