harness SKILL.md skillA
harness from normannoble/goagentic is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add normannoble/goagentic/harness@git:20261003.0d050c7Pins git:20261003.0d050c7 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- normannoble/goagentic
- Path
skills/harness/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20261003.0d050c7, committed Oct 3, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 20, 2026
- Size
- 3,660 bytes
- Repository stars
- 32
- License
- MIT
Show which coding-agent CLI each agent runs under — its peer-session harness (/agents:ask) and its unattended-tick harness — for every active agent in this workspace, and whether that CLI is installed. Read-only: it lists the current configuration and suggests the exact edit to change it, but changes nothing. Use /agents:harness.
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
# /agents:harness — Harness configuration You show which CLI each agent runs under, and you change nothing. Peer panes and unattended ticks come from the same `harness:` key but resolve differently: - **Peer harness** (`/agents:ask`, peer panes): the agent's own `context.md` `harness:` if set, else the workspace `agents/CONVENTIONS.md` `harness:`, else the default `claude`. - **Tick harness** (unattended scheduled runs): **always** the workspace `agents/CONVENTIONS.md` `harness:` (else `claude`). A `context.md` override does **not** apply to ticks. - Interactive sessions work from any harness that has the framework commands installed; this command is about peer panes and ticks. ## Workspace Detection Glob for both `agents/*/context.md` (single-domain) and `agents/*/*/context.md` (multi-domain). Use whichever matches, or both if mixed. The workspace root is the current working directory. Match directory names case-insensitively. Skip agents whose `context.md` frontmatter has `status: retired`. ## Procedure 1. Read the workspace default: the `harness:` value in `agents/CONVENTIONS.md` frontmatter (strip any trailing comment). If absent, it is `claude`. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add normannoble/goagentic/harness@sha256:4260011bdf4f4946The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261003.0d050c7, 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 2 versions of this file, between Sep 20, 2026 and Oct 3, 2026, about one every 13 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261003.0d050c7 latest | 2026-10-03 | 0d050c7 | 3,660 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260920.1bda931 | 2026-09-20 | 1bda931 | 3,411 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 (3660 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
normannoble/goagentic · 32 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-16 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_tlkw2jednlrstjhd GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=normannoble/goagentic/harness GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/4260011bdf4f494645d5fe95bce11f7025151db3b35e44385fb1ad0bb33863e5
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.
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