Agent skill

Execute

by 0xenzyme in 0xenzyme/agent-harness

Execute accepted long-running controller or durable Harness work, or postflight-sync already tracked work; ordinary clear changes use the current host directly.

MITAuto-check passedAgent Workflows

Install Execute

skills CLI
$ npx skills add 0xenzyme/agent-harness --skill execute -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install 0xenzyme/agent-harness execute --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/0xenzyme/agent-harness.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/agent-harness/skills/execute .claude/skills/execute && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
execute
GitHub stars
107
Token cost
~1.9k tokens
SKILL.md length
885 words
Files
3 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
4
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Execute accepted long-running controller or durable Harness work, or postflight-sync already tracked work; ordinary clear changes use the current host directly.

  • Works in 11 steps: Classify the request → For durable work, read AGENTS.md,… → Before creating, forking, or handing off… → …
  • Agent Workflows work in your project
  • SKILL.md covers Workflow, Domain Invariants and Boundaries
  • Calls node

What it does

Execute is an agent skill from 0xenzyme/agent-harness. Execute accepted long-running controller or durable Harness work, or postflight-sync already tracked work; ordinary clear changes use the current host directly. / 执行主控长任务、持久化控制或已有状态同步。

Its SKILL.md is about 1.9k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 4 other files, including reference files (for example `agents/openai.yaml` and `references/completion-evidence.md`).

It sits in Agent Workflows. The repository describes itself as: Adapter-driven control plane for coding-agent work: tasks, goals, run DAGs, gates, verification, and state sync. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Agent Workflows work in your project

Example prompts

  • “/execute”

Workflow steps

11 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Classify the request
  2. For durable work, read AGENTS.md, inspect .harness/config.json, and load
  3. Before creating, forking, or handing off a project session, or delegating a
  4. Controller means outcome owner and accepted-state owner. It may implement
  5. For accepted long-running controller work, establish or reuse a compatible
  6. Validate or create the repository Goal, then prepare a Run when durable
  7. Give ready DAG nodes to the host when delegation is available. Harness
  8. Verify the accepted scope and durable required gates. Worker output remains
  9. Confirm authoritative Task/Goal phase, verification, required gates, and
  10. Synchronize the configured Goal/Task/status/Run state. Keep status bounded;
  11. Close with changed output, verification, accepted phase, Need user, and

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 098b96d. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • node

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Execute loads about 1.9k tokens when it runs, and up to ~2.2k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 48 tokens; SKILL.md has 885 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~48
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.9k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~2.2k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from 0xenzyme/agent-harness at commit 098b96d, republished under its MIT licence (© 0xenzyme). 885 words, ~1,905 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/execute/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 2 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
execute
description
Execute accepted long-running controller or durable Harness work, or postflight-sync already tracked work; ordinary clear changes use the current host directly. / 执行主控长任务、持久化控制或已有状态同步。

Harness Execute

Use this skill when accepted work needs durable recovery, audit, milestone acceptance, a Run/DAG, multiple workers, persistent state sync, or high-risk control, or when already completed simple work needs bounded postflight sync to existing Harness state. A clear ordinary change/build request uses the current host directly without this skill.

Read Completion Evidence before accepting or recording durable completion. Read Host Execution Bridge before selecting direct, postflight, or durable execution. Read Host Capabilities before using runtime outcome, transient plan, or delegation. Read Artifact Lifecycle before compacting task state or pruning Runs. Read Worker Runner Contract before delegating any DAG node or worker.

Workflow

  1. Classify the request:
    • host-direct: stop Harness execution; let the current host execute and verify.
    • host-direct-postflight: verify completed work and update existing state only; create no lifecycle artifacts and do not apply durable completion gates.
    • durable-harness: continue below. A prepared enforced Run always remains durable. Legacy aliases codex-direct and codex-direct-postflight remain readable.
  2. For durable work, read AGENTS.md, inspect .harness/config.json, and load the configured adapter, accepted Spec/Goal, active Run, and required gates. If the manifest enforces a checkpoint, run run validate and run checkpoint show before any project action; follow its sole next action and prohibited-action list.
  3. Before creating, forking, or handing off a project session, or delegating a worker, resolve work mode from the current user instruction, AGENTS.md, the accepted Spec/Goal, and .harness/config.json. Run worktree recommend for a Harness-managed project. If the result is ask or those sources conflict, pause for user direction before calling the host tool. Authorization to create a session or worker is not authorization to create a worktree. Do not pass host-specific starting checkout or session state unless the current user explicitly requests that specific existing Git state. Parallel-writer isolation is a reason to ask, not permission to override an unresolved work-mode decision.
  4. Controller means outcome owner and accepted-state owner. It may implement foreground work. Select gate-only only when the user or accepted Goal explicitly says the controller only reviews evidence; otherwise use implementer for edits inside accepted scope.
  5. For accepted long-running controller work, establish or reuse a compatible runtime outcome when the host exposes runtimeOutcome. Use the host transient plan for multi-step work. Do not emulate missing runtime capabilities with extra repository artifacts.
  6. Validate or create the repository Goal, then prepare a Run when durable execution is required:
bash
node <plugin-root>/scripts/agent-harness.mjs goal validate --cwd <project> --goal <goal-file>
node <plugin-root>/scripts/agent-harness.mjs run prepare --cwd <project> --goal <goal-file>
  1. Give ready DAG nodes to the host when delegation is available. Harness does not start workers, choose concurrency, cancel runtimes, or pin model/effort by default. Record node ownership, verification, and candidate evidence before dependents run. Do not launch a dependent node before its recorded dependencies complete. Workers return candidate evidence and State Sync Notes; only the controller writes accepted Goal, Task, status, Run, or gate state. A reconciliation-required checkpoint permits authoritative inspection only. Contract drift moves the old Run through replan-required to a validated replacement and superseded; never rebind its manifest.
  2. Verify the accepted scope and durable required gates. Worker output remains candidate evidence until the accepted-state owner validates it. Before acceptance, challenge scope coverage, stale evidence, missing dependencies, path ownership, required checklist items, and whether the user's Milestone/Goal objective is larger than the local artifact.
  3. Confirm authoritative Task/Goal phase, verification, required gates, and State Sync Notes. blocked is resumable and non-complete; Run state is evidence and status is a bounded projection.
  4. Synchronize the configured Goal/Task/status/Run state. Keep status bounded; preview artifact compaction when configured limits are exceeded. Pruning is a separate explicit destructive action and never follows from state sync. Completion evidence must name changed files, commands/results, gate evidence, State Sync Notes, remaining work, and any true user decision.
  5. Close with changed output, verification, accepted phase, Need user, and Remaining.
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Domain Invariants

  • harness-rule:path-containment: every configured write, Goal/Spec reference, Run argument, and DAG artifact stays inside its configured project root, including existing-parent realpath and symlink checks.
  • harness-rule:run-dag-ownership: a Run records ready nodes, dependencies, ownership, verification, and candidate evidence; scheduling belongs to the host.
  • harness-rule:pre-delegation-work-mode: resolve local, worktree, or ask before host delegation; unresolved ask or conflicting sources pause for the user.
  • harness-rule:candidate-accepted-evidence: executors return candidate evidence; only the accepted-state owner accepts gates or durable state.
  • harness-rule:authoritative-completion-state: Task/Goal is the accepted-state authority with active, completed, or blocked phase; blocked is resumable and non-complete, Run stores evidence, and status is a bounded projection.
  • harness-rule:state-sync-evidence: durable completion includes verified State Sync Notes and updates to already configured records.
  • harness-rule:bounded-status-snapshot: status is a bounded current snapshot, while Goals, Runs, and gate records retain durable history.
  • harness-rule:project-neutral-core: adapters own downstream paths and facts; plugin core stays project-neutral.
  • harness-rule:durable-tier-boundary: ordinary clear change/build uses the current host directly; already recorded simple work may use postflight-only sync; durable ceremony is reserved for recovery, audit, milestone/DAG, multi-worker, persistent state sync, or high-risk control.
  • harness-rule:checkpoint-recovery: explicitly enforced managed Runs use an independent revision-safe checkpoint; uncertain external state and contract drift fail closed, while disabled and legacy paths keep existing behavior.

Boundaries

  • Do not infer authorization for credentials, production access, destructive operations, daemons, release, deploy, publish, or other external side effects.
  • Do not mark durable work complete without required verification, gates, DAG evidence, and state sync.
  • Do not apply durable gates to direct or postflight-only work, and do not use postflight wording to bypass an existing enforced Run.
  • Preserve fixed and adapter contracts and report in the user's language.

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Files

SKILL.md and 2 other files (references) in plugins/agent-harness/skills/execute of 0xenzyme/agent-harness.

  • SKILL.md
  • agents/openai.yaml
  • references/completion-evidence.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 098b96d

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Questions about Execute

What does Execute do?

Execute accepted long-running controller or durable Harness work, or postflight-sync already tracked work; ordinary clear changes use the current host directly. Execute is an agent skill from 0xenzyme/agent-harness. Execute accepted long-running controller or durable Harness work, or postflight-sync already tracked work; ordinary clear changes use the current host directly.

When should I use Execute?

Execute fits situations like: agent Workflows work in your project.

How do I install Execute in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add 0xenzyme/agent-harness --skill execute -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/agent-harness/skills/execute in 0xenzyme/agent-harness) into .claude/skills/execute in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Execute in Codex?

Run `npx skills add 0xenzyme/agent-harness --skill execute -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/agent-harness/skills/execute in 0xenzyme/agent-harness) into .agents/skills/execute in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Execute in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add 0xenzyme/agent-harness --skill execute -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/execute, .gemini/skills/execute, .github/skills/execute and .opencode/skills/execute in your project.

What does Execute need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Execute needs the command-line tools its instructions call (node).

Does Execute access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Execute safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Execute use?

Execute is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Execute use?

About 1.9k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7.6k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 260 tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Execute?

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Who maintains Execute?

0xenzyme (a GitHub user) maintains it in 0xenzyme/agent-harness, which has 107 GitHub stars. The repository holds 4 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 7, 2026.

Source: 0xenzyme/agent-harness on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.