Harness — The Team-Architecture Factory for Claude Code

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Harness is a team-architecture factory for Claude Code. Say "build a harness for this project" (English) or "하네스 구성해줘" (한국어) or "ハーネスを構成して" (日本語), and the plugin turns your domain description into an agent team and the skills they use — picked from six pre-defined team-architecture patterns.

Overview

Harness leverages Claude Code's agent team system to decompose complex tasks into coordinated teams of specialized agents. Say "build a harness for this project" and it automatically generates agent definitions (.claude/agents/) and skills (.claude/skills/) tailored to your domain.

Category — Where Harness Sits

Harness lives at the L3 Meta-Factory layer of the Claude Code ecosystem — the layer that generates other harnesses rather than being one. Inside L3, we pick a specific sub-layer: Team-Architecture Factory.

Archon generates deterministic runtime configurations. Harness generates team architectures (pipeline, fan-out/fan-in, expert pool, producer-reviewer, supervisor, hierarchical delegation) plus the skills agents use. Different sub-layers of the same L3. Pick Archon for runtime determinism, Harness for team architecture, or combine them.

Star History

Key Features

• Agent Team Design — 6 architectural patterns: Pipeline, Fan-out/Fan-in, Expert Pool, Producer-Reviewer, Supervisor, and Hierarchical Delegation
• Skill Generation — Auto-generates skills with Progressive Disclosure for efficient context management
• Orchestration — Inter-agent data passing, error handling, and team coordination protocols
• Validation — Trigger verification, dry-run testing, and with-skill vs without-skill comparison tests

Workflow

Phase 1: Domain Analysis
    ↓
Phase 2: Team Architecture Design (Agent Teams vs Subagents)
    ↓
Phase 3: Agent Definition Generation (.claude/agents/)
    ↓
Phase 4: Skill Generation (.claude/skills/)
    ↓
Phase 5: Integration & Orchestration
    ↓
Phase 6: Validation & Testing

Installation

Via Marketplace

Add the marketplace

/plugin marketplace add revfactory/harness

Install the plugin

/plugin install harness@harness-marketplace

Direct Installation as Global Skill

# Copy the skills directory to ~/.claude/skills/harness/
cp -r skills/harness ~/.claude/skills/harness

Plugin Structure

harness/
├── .claude-plugin/
│   └── plugin.json                 # Plugin manifest
├── skills/
│   └── harness/
│       ├── SKILL.md                # Main skill definition (6-Phase workflow)
│       └── references/
│           ├── agent-design-patterns.md   # 6 architectural patterns
│           ├── orchestrator-template.md   # Team/subagent orchestrator templates
│           ├── team-examples.md           # 5 real-world team configurations
│           ├── skill-writing-guide.md     # Skill authoring guide
│           ├── skill-testing-guide.md     # Testing & evaluation methodology
│           └── qa-agent-guide.md          # QA agent integration guide
└── README.md

Usage

Trigger in Claude Code with prompts like:

Build a harness for this project
Design an agent team for this domain
Set up a harness

Execution Modes

Architecture Patterns

Output

Files generated by Harness:

your-project/
├── .claude/
│   ├── agents/          # Agent definition files
│   │   ├── analyst.md
│   │   ├── builder.md
│   │   └── qa.md
│   └── skills/          # Skill files
│       ├── analyze/
│       │   └── SKILL.md
│       └── build/
│           ├── SKILL.md
│           └── references/

Use Cases — Try These Prompts

Copy any prompt below into Claude Code after installing Harness:

Deep Research

Build a harness for deep research. I need an agent team that can investigate
any topic from multiple angles — web search, academic sources, community
sentiment — then cross-validate findings and produce a comprehensive report.

Website Development

Build a harness for full-stack website development. The team should handle
design, frontend (React/Next.js), backend (API), and QA testing in a
coordinated pipeline from wireframe to deployment.

Webtoon / Comic Production

Build a harness for webtoon episode production. I need agents for story
writing, character design prompts, panel layout planning, and dialogue
editing. They should review each other's work for style consistency.

YouTube Content Planning

Build a harness for YouTube content creation. The team should research
trending topics, write scripts, optimize titles/tags for SEO, and plan
thumbnail concepts — all coordinated by a supervisor agent.

Code Review & Refactoring

Build a harness for comprehensive code review. I want parallel agents
checking architecture, security vulnerabilities, performance bottlenecks,
and code style — then merging all findings into a single report.

Technical Documentation

Build a harness that generates API documentation from this codebase.
Agents should analyze endpoints, write descriptions, generate usage
examples, and review for completeness.

Data Pipeline Design

Build a harness for designing data pipelines. I need agents for schema
design, ETL logic, data validation rules, and monitoring setup that
delegate sub-tasks hierarchically.

Marketing Campaign

Build a harness for marketing campaign creation. The team should research
the target market, write ad copy, design visual concepts, and set up
A/B test plans with iterative quality review.

Coexistence — Harness and Neighbors

Harness is not alone in the Claude Code / agent-framework ecosystem. The following repos live in adjacent layers; each is described in a parallel "X is …, Harness is …" form so you can pick the one that fits your need or combine several.