using-the-harness SKILL.md skillA
using-the-harness from jpantsjoha/ai-native-developer-experience is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add jpantsjoha/ai-native-developer-experience/using-the-harness@git:20261016.e93069bPins git:20261016.e93069b in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- jpantsjoha/ai-native-developer-experience
- Path
skills/using-the-harness/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261016.e93069b, committed Oct 16, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 7, 2026
- Size
- 7,598 bytes
- Repository stars
- 13
- License
- Apache-2.0
Session-start orientation for this team harness. Load first, before any work. Explains the operating contract, when each skill triggers, and how installed companion plugins supply agent-craft capabilities while this harness supplies the team contract. Trigger at the start of every session and whenever unsure which skill applies.
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
# Using the Harness This is a **team operating harness**: one shared contract for humans and AI agents working in the same repository — same rules, same risk tiers, same evidence, same definition of done. It exists to make a mixed human–AI team coherent, not to make one agent faster. A skill supplies a repeatable procedure. It never supplies permission or accountability. ## First actions, every session 1. **Ground in the contract.** If this project has adopted the operating model, read its project profile before anything else (`docs/operating-model/PROJECT-OPERATING-PROFILE.md`), then the manual it binds. Profile facts beat inference. 2. **Classify risk before acting.** Map the requested work to R0–R3. Round ambiguity upward. Confirm authority at that tier before any consequential, destructive, external, or credential-touching action. 3. **Route before doing.** Check the routing table below. If a skill applies to the work, use it. If you are unsure which applies, use `delivery-orchestrator`. The shared plugin is provider-neutral. Host adapters implement invocation; the project profile selects authorised reviewers, subscriptions and budgets. Independent Council …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add jpantsjoha/ai-native-developer-experience/using-the-harness@sha256:ccfdc30fe5487e3dThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261016.e93069b, 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 Aug 7, 2026 and Oct 16, 2026, about one every 18 days.
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| git:20261016.e93069b latest | 2026-10-16 | e93069b | 7,598 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261012.ecdaae8 | 2026-10-12 | ecdaae8 | 6,568 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260914.1704508 | 2026-09-14 | 1704508 | 6,274 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260914.d9753e2 | 2026-09-14 | d9753e2 | 6,070 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260807.c64e31f | 2026-08-07 | c64e31f | 5,882 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 (7598 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
jpantsjoha/ai-native-developer-experience · 13 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-16 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_zfruhvh2mrygsn3z GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jpantsjoha/ai-native-developer-experience/using-the-harness GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ccfdc30fe5487e3d48b2fc606fa5511228e78717a4024d4c1473642f3980b17e
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.