harness-boundary SKILL.md skillA

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harness-boundary from shimo4228/akc-cycle is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add shimo4228/akc-cycle/harness-boundary@git:20261101.1c68dc8

Pins git:20261101.1c68dc8 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
shimo4228/akc-cycle
Path
skills/harness-boundary/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
git:20261101.1c68dc8, committed Nov 1, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 26, 2026
Size
9,351 bytes
Repository stars
3
License
MIT

Design lens: which layer a harness mechanism belongs in, and whether it outlives the next model or runtime.

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-boundary — a design lens that treats as assets only what survives discarding the harness

"The harness is the asset" is only half right. Harness logic that compensates for model-specific weaknesses
goes stale with each model generation, and the runtime (tool execution, permissions, state, retry, agent loop)
is being standardized and replaced. What remains are **other layers mixed into** the harness. This skill
raises the questions for separating that mixture when a mechanism is added, changed, or reviewed.

This is not an enforced architecture but a lens for judging asset boundaries, portability, and obsolescence.

## Core principles

- Put model capability in the model. Do not reimplement it in the harness
- Put procedural knowledge in skills
- Keep values and responsibility boundaries explicit and inspectable
- Put the definition of quality in evals
- Put domain knowledge and history in data / memory
- Keep the runtime as thin and swappable as practically possible

And: **do not optimize to preserve the harness. Optimize to preserve what should survive
swapping the harness.** When a new model makes existing logic unnecessary, that is not a design
…

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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add shimo4228/akc-cycle/harness-boundary@sha256:ae5ba247095aa469

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261101.1c68dc8, 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 5 versions of this file, between Sep 26, 2026 and Nov 1, 2026, about one every 9 days.

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git:20261008.3b0d1192026-10-08 3b0d119 9,362 BA view · diff
git:20261008.7b640542026-10-08 7b64054 10,650 BA view · diff
git:20260926.5fb88522026-09-26 5fb8852 10,402 BA view · diff
git:20260926.90790d12026-09-26 90790d1 10,141 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (9351 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

GitHub

shimo4228/akc-cycle · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ttkmnxeoksuwj64o
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=shimo4228/akc-cycle/harness-boundary
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ae5ba247095aa469c6b3c579f75c60b84a6e46012370d6802d12690e5ef021a3

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.

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