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harness-engineering-playbook
Implement OpenAI Harness Engineering practices in any repository — AGENTS.md, PLANS.md, deterministic smoke/test/lint harness commands, strict architecture boundaries, observability from day 1, and entropy-control audits for reliable autonomous agent runs.
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# Harness Engineering Playbook
A skills.sh-compatible skill that operationalizes the practices from OpenAI's Harness Engineering guide. Use it to set up or refactor agent-first workflows so that autonomous runs are repeatable, observable, and safe.
## Install
```bash
npx skills add broomva/harness-engineering-skill --skill harness-engineering-playbook
```
## What It Does
- Bootstraps harness artifacts: `AGENTS.md`, `PLANS.md`, `docs/ARCHITECTURE.md`, `docs/OBSERVABILITY.md`, `Makefile.harness`, and CI workflows.
- Wraps deterministic commands behind `make smoke`, `make check`, `make ci` so agents can run them reliably.