Vertical Creator

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Designing vertical-definition JSON
• Vertical template catalogs
• Package scaffolds
• Checker profiles

Example prompts

• “/vertical-creator”

Workflow steps

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

1. 1Name the domain and list its entity kinds using the entity declaration tuple.
2. 2Decide which entities are lifecycle package entities and which are schema-only metadata entities.
3. 3Define package scaffolds and repository roots for every lifecycle entity.
4. 4Put template bodies in Markdown assets under assets//templates//.md.
5. 5Register those assets in template-catalog/v2 with bodyPath; do not use inline body.
6. 6Define required documents as templateSelections that point at catalog refs.
7. 7Choose the checker profile and projection schemas.
8. 8Define applicable presets separately as preset-manifest/v3; do not bury preset behavior in the vertical.
9. 9Run ha vertical validate --source before publishing the vertical.
10. 10Add validation tests for schema shape, materialized paths, catalog body paths, and default preset/profile behavior.
11. 11Add integration tests only for real CLI/filesystem behavior.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit c805ddf. 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

  No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are json, bash and markdown).

  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

Vertical Creator loads about 1.7k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 79 tokens; SKILL.md has 528 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~79

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.7k

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

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 FairladyZ625/harness-anything at commit c805ddf, republished under its AGPL-3.0 licence (© FairladyZ625). 528 words, ~1,744 tokens.

name

vertical-creator

description

Create, review, or update Harness Anything verticals. Use when designing vertical-definition JSON, vertical template catalogs, entity kinds, package scaffolds, checker profiles, projection schemas, and preset layering for a new Harness Anything domain such as coding, QA, docs, design, or operations.

{
  "schema": "vertical-definition/v1",
  "id": "example/work",
  "title": "Example Work",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "entityFieldExtensions": [],
  "entityKinds": [
    {
      "id": "task",
      "entityType": "lifecycle",
      "packageKind": "task-package/v2",
      "contractEntity": true
    },
    {
      "id": "fact",
      "entityType": "schema",
      "schemaRef": "schema://fact-record",
      "contractEntity": true
    }
  ],
  "contractEntityKinds": ["task", "fact"],
  "packageScaffolds": [
    {
      "entityKind": "task",
      "templateSelections": []
    }
  ],
  "repositoryScaffold": {
    "entityRoots": [
      {
        "entityKind": "task",
        "path": "{{paths.tasksRoot}}",
        "create": "init"
      }
    ],
    "dirs": [],
    "seededDocs": []
  },
  "scripts": [],
  "templateSelections": [],
  "checkerProfile": "standard",
  "projectionSchemas": []
}

ha vertical validate --source <package-directory>

assets/software-coding/
  vertical.json
  template-catalog.json
  templates/
    task.plan/
      en-US.md
      zh-CN.md
  presets/
    standard-task/
      preset.json

{
  "schema": "template-catalog/v2",
  "package": {
    "id": "software-coding-core",
    "title": "Software Coding Core Templates",
    "version": "1.0.0",
    "owner": "harness-anything",
    "locales": ["zh-CN", "en-US"]
  },
  "documents": [
    {
      "id": "planning/task-plan",
      "version": "1",
      "documentKind": "task-plan",
      "slot": "task.plan",
      "materializeAs": "task_plan.md",
      "frontmatterSchema": "task-package/v2",
      "requiredAnchors": ["## Goal", "## Verification"],
      "fallbackLocale": "en-US",
      "locales": [
        {
          "locale": "en-US",
          "anchors": ["## Goal", "## Verification"],
          "bodyPath": "templates/task.plan/en-US.md"
        },
        {
          "locale": "zh-CN",
          "anchors": ["## Goal", "## Verification"],
          "bodyPath": "templates/task.plan/zh-CN.md"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

## Goal

Describe the target outcome.

## Verification

List the validation steps.

{
  "id": "baseline",
  "title": "Baseline",
  "checkerProfile": "standard",
  "completionGates": [],
  "templateSelections": [
    {
      "slot": "task.plan",
      "templateRef": "template://planning/task-plan@1",
      "materializeAs": "task_plan.md",
      "localePolicy": { "prefer": "project", "fallback": "en-US" }
    }
  ]
}

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Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file in skills/vertical-creator of FairladyZ625/harness-anything.

• SKILL.md
• agents/openai.yaml

Open the folder on GitHubat commit c805ddf