Agent skill

Intake

by 0xenzyme in 0xenzyme/agent-harness

Explicitly preview or record rough Agent Harness ideas, requirements, bugs, and inbox notes without accepting scope or implementing it.

MITAuto-check passedProductivity & Automation

Install Intake

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install 0xenzyme/agent-harness intake --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/intake .claude/skills/intake && 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
intake
GitHub stars
107
Token cost
~435 tokens
SKILL.md length
179 words
Files
3 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
4
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Explicitly preview or record rough Agent Harness ideas, requirements, bugs, and inbox notes without accepting scope or implementing it.

  • Works in 5 steps: Read repo instructions and inspect the… → Preserve the raw idea, detect… → Preview first → …
  • Tasks that involve Email management
  • Calls node

What it does

Intake is an agent skill from 0xenzyme/agent-harness. Explicitly preview or record rough Agent Harness ideas, requirements, bugs, and inbox notes without accepting scope or implementing it. / 显式收集未确认事项,不执行。

Its SKILL.md is about 440 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/capture-promotion.md`).

It sits in Productivity & Automation, covering Email management. 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

  • Tasks that involve Email management

Example prompts

  • “/intake”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Read repo instructions and inspect the configured Goal-index and idea-inbox
  2. Preserve the raw idea, detect duplicates/dependencies, and propose a concise
  3. Preview first
  4. Record only with explicit authority
  5. When an idea inbox is configured, --record appends the candidate there 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

Intake loads about 435 tokens when it runs, and up to ~593 if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 40 tokens; SKILL.md has 179 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~40
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~435
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~593

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). 179 words, ~435 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/intake/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 2 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
intake
description
Explicitly preview or record rough Agent Harness ideas, requirements, bugs, and inbox notes without accepting scope or implementing it. / 显式收集未确认事项,不执行。

Harness Intake

Use intake for rough, unaccepted work. Preview is read-only; recording requires an explicit user request.

The current user instruction and project instructions take precedence over this skill. This skill supplies routing and safety boundaries; it does not add an approval requirement beyond the boundaries stated below.

Read Capture And Promotion before recording or promoting an intake candidate.

  1. Read repo instructions and inspect the configured Goal-index and idea-inbox paths.
  2. Preserve the raw idea, detect duplicates/dependencies, and propose a concise title, priority, section, acceptance hint, and likely spec need.
  3. Preview first:
bash
node <plugin-root>/scripts/agent-harness.mjs intake idea --cwd <project> --idea "<idea>" --json
  1. Record only with explicit authority:
bash
node <plugin-root>/scripts/agent-harness.mjs intake idea --cwd <project> --idea "<idea>" --record --priority P2 --section Next
  1. When an idea inbox is configured, --record appends the candidate there and leaves the accepted Goal index unchanged. Without an idea inbox, refuse unsupported table writes without changing the file. Do not promote a candidate to accepted scope, create Spec/Goal/Run artifacts, or implement it. An accepted ordinary change returns to the current host directly and may use bounded postflight sync for this already recorded Task; durable accepted work uses harness:execute before execution only when its tier boundary applies.

© 0xenzyme, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

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

  • SKILL.md
  • agents/openai.yaml
  • references/capture-promotion.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 098b96d

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Career-Ops Gmail Lead Plugincareer-ops-hq/career-ops74k—~233Automated safety check: NotesMIT
Skill CompassEvol-ai/SkillCompass2161 repos~3.1kAutomated safety check: PassMIT

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Questions about Intake

What does Intake do?

Explicitly preview or record rough Agent Harness ideas, requirements, bugs, and inbox notes without accepting scope or implementing it. Intake is an agent skill from 0xenzyme/agent-harness. Explicitly preview or record rough Agent Harness ideas, requirements, bugs, and inbox notes without accepting scope or implementing it.

When should I use Intake?

Intake fits situations like: tasks that involve Email management.

How do I install Intake in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Intake in Codex?

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

Can I use Intake 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 intake -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/intake, .gemini/skills/intake, .github/skills/intake and .opencode/skills/intake in your project.

What does Intake need to run?

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

Does Intake 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 Intake 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 Intake use?

Intake 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 Intake use?

About 435 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1.7k 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 158 tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Intake?

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Who maintains Intake?

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.