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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.

| Layer | What it does | Neighbors we coexist with | |-------|--------------|---------------------------| | L3 — Meta-Factory / Team-Architecture Factory (us) | Domain sentence → agent team + skills, via 6 pre-defined team patterns | — | | L3 — Meta-Factory / Runtime-Configuration Factory | Deterministic, repeatable runtime configurations | coleam00/Archon | | L3 — Meta-Factory / Codex Runtime Port | Same concept, Codex runtime | SaehwanPark/meta-harness | | L2 — Cross-Harness Workflow | Standardize skills/rules/hooks across multiple harnesses | affaan-m/ECC |

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.

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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

| Mode | Description | Recommended For | |------|-------------|-----------------| | Agent Teams (default) | TeamCreate + SendMessage + TaskCreate | 2+ agents requiring collaboration | | Subagents | Direct Agent tool invocation | One-off tasks, no inter-agent communication needed |

<p align="center"> <img src="harness_team.png" alt="Harness Agent Team" width="500"> </p>

Architecture Patterns

| Pattern | Description | |---------|-------------| | Pipeline | Sequential dependent tasks | | Fan-out/Fan-in | Parallel independent tasks | | Expert Pool | Context-dependent selective invocation | | Producer-Reviewer | Generation followed by quality review | | Supervisor | Central agent with dynamic task distribution | | Hierarchical Delegation | Top-down recursive delegation |

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.

| Repo | Their position | Relationship to Harness | |------|----------------|-------------------------| | coleam00/Archon | "harness builder" — deterministic, repeatable runtime configurations | Same L3, neighbor sub-layer. Archon is a Runtime-Configuration Factory, Harness is a Team-Architecture Factory. Pick Archon for runtime determinism, Harness for team architecture, or combine them. | | SaehwanPark/meta-harness | Codex port of the same concept | Same L3, different runtime. Use Harness on Claude Code, meta-harness on Codex. | | affaan-m/ECC | "Agent harness performance & workflow layer" (sits on top of existing harnesses) | Different layer. ECC is a standardization layer across harnesses; Harness is a factory that generates harnesses. Serial combination possible. | | wshobson/agents | Subagent / skill catalog (182 agents, 149 skills) | Factory ↔ parts supply. wshobson is a catalog to shop from; Harness designs the team. Absorb wshobson entries as parts inside a Harness-generated team. | | LangGraph | State-graph orchestration, LLM-agnostic | Different track. LangGraph is for long-running, state-recoverable orchestration; Harness is for fast Claude-Code-native team design. |

Built with Harness

Harness 100

revfactory/harness-100 — 100 production-ready agent team harnesses across 10 domains, available in both English and Korean (200 packages total). Each harness ships with 4-5 specialist agents, an orchestrator skill, and domain-specific skills — all generated by this plugin. 1,808 markdown files covering content creation, software development, data/AI, business strategy, education, legal, health, and more.

Research: A/B Testing Harness Effectiveness

revfactory/claude-code-harness — A controlled experiment across 15 software engineering tasks measuring the impact of structured pre-configuration on LLM code agent output quality.

| Metric | Without Harness | With Harness | Improvement | |--------|:-:|:-:|:-:| | Average Quality Score | 49.5 | 79.3 | +60% | | Win Rate | — | — | 100% (15/15) | | Output Variance | — | — | -32% |

Key finding: effectiveness scales with task complexity — the harder the task, the greater the improvement (+23.8 Basic, +29.6 Advanced, +36.2 Expert).

Exact phrasing to use everywhere: +60% avg quality (49.5 → 79.3), 15/15 win-rate, −32% variance (n=15, author-measured A/B, third-party replications pending).

Full paper: *Hwang, M. (2026). Harness: Structured