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A skill your agent uses when generating a human-readable onboarding document from HARNESS.md, AGENTS.md, and REFLECTIONLOG.md — produces a friendly guide for new team members joining a harnessed…
Install Harness Onboarding
$ npx skills add Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers --skill harness-onboarding -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers harness-onboarding --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/harness-onboarding .claude/skills/harness-onboarding && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "harness-onboarding" agent skill from https://github.com/Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers/tree/main/ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/harness-onboarding into .claude/skills/harness-onboarding/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "harness-onboarding", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers/tree/main/ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/harness-onboardingType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers --skill harness-onboarding -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers harness-onboarding --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/harness-onboarding .agents/skills/harness-onboarding && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "harness-onboarding" agent skill from https://github.com/Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers/tree/main/ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/harness-onboarding into .agents/skills/harness-onboarding/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "harness-onboarding", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers --skill harness-onboarding -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers harness-onboarding --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/harness-onboarding .cursor/skills/harness-onboarding && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "harness-onboarding" agent skill from https://github.com/Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers/tree/main/ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/harness-onboarding into .cursor/skills/harness-onboarding/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "harness-onboarding", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers.git --path ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/harness-onboarding--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers --skill harness-onboarding -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers harness-onboarding --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/harness-onboarding .gemini/skills/harness-onboarding && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "harness-onboarding" agent skill from https://github.com/Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers/tree/main/ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/harness-onboarding into .gemini/skills/harness-onboarding/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "harness-onboarding", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers harness-onboardingInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers --skill harness-onboarding -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/harness-onboarding .github/skills/harness-onboarding && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "harness-onboarding" agent skill from https://github.com/Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers/tree/main/ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/harness-onboarding into .github/skills/harness-onboarding/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "harness-onboarding", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers --skill harness-onboarding -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers harness-onboarding --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/harness-onboarding .opencode/skills/harness-onboarding && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "harness-onboarding" agent skill from https://github.com/Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers/tree/main/ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/harness-onboarding into .opencode/skills/harness-onboarding/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "harness-onboarding", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
harness-onboarding- GitHub stars
- 114
- Token cost
- ~1.2k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 633 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 42
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- Custom licence
At a glance
A skill your agent uses when generating a human-readable onboarding document from HARNESS.md, AGENTS.md, and REFLECTIONLOG.md — produces a friendly guide for new team members joining a harnessed…
- Works in 4 steps: Run the linter → Check for secrets → Update CHANGELOG.md → …
- Generating a human-readable onboarding document from HARNESS.md
- SKILL.md covers Overview, Sources, Tone and Section Guidelines, plus 2 more sections
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Harness Onboarding is an agent skill from Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers. Use when generating a human-readable onboarding document from HARNESS.md, AGENTS.md, and REFLECTIONLOG.md — produces a friendly guide for new team members joining a harnessed project
Its SKILL.md is about 1.2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.
It sits in Agent Workflows, covering Agent instruction files. The repository describes itself as: A set of Claude Code and GitHub Copilot plugins providing the AI Literacy framework's complete development workflow — harness engineering, agent orchestration, literate….
When your agent uses it
- Generating a human-readable onboarding document from HARNESS.md
- REFLECTIONLOG.md — produces a friendly guide for new team members joining a harnessed project
Example prompts
- “/harness-onboarding”
Workflow steps
4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- Run the linter
- Check for secrets
- Update CHANGELOG.md
- Ensure commit message format
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9d35995. 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.
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
Harness Onboarding loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 51 tokens; SKILL.md has 633 words of instructions outside code blocks.
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
Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 633 words (~1,188 tokens).
“HARNESS.md is written for agents and experienced team members. New contributors need something different — a friendly, practical guide that explains "here's how we work" without requiring them to parse constraint definitions and GC rule syntax.”
- name
- harness-onboarding
Files
Just SKILL.md in ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/harness-onboarding of Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9d35995
Compare with similar skills
Harness Onboarding next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.
| Skill | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Repo updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harness Onboarding this skillHabitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers | 114 | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Using Agent Skillsaddyosmani/agent-skills | 104k | 4 repos | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Claude ReflectBayramAnnakov/claude-reflect | 1.8k | 2 repos | ~627 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Neat-Freak Knowledge CloseoutKKKKhazix/khazix-skills | 21k | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Writing For Agentsbestofjs/bestofjs | 3.1k | 18 repos | ~2.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Task Observerrebelytics/one-skill-to-rule-them-all | 3.2k | 1 repos | ~11k | Automated safety check: Pass | CC-BY-4.0 |
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Questions about Harness Onboarding
What does Harness Onboarding do?
A skill your agent uses when generating a human-readable onboarding document from HARNESS.md, AGENTS.md, and REFLECTIONLOG.md — produces a friendly guide for new team members joining a harnessed…. Harness Onboarding is an agent skill from Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers.
When should I use Harness Onboarding?
Harness Onboarding fits situations like: generating a human-readable onboarding document from HARNESS.md; REFLECTIONLOG.md — produces a friendly guide for new team members joining a harnessed project.
How do I install Harness Onboarding in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers --skill harness-onboarding -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/harness-onboarding in Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers) into .claude/skills/harness-onboarding in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Harness Onboarding in Codex?
Run `npx skills add Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers --skill harness-onboarding -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/harness-onboarding in Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers) into .agents/skills/harness-onboarding in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Harness Onboarding 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 Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers --skill harness-onboarding -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/harness-onboarding, .gemini/skills/harness-onboarding, .github/skills/harness-onboarding and .opencode/skills/harness-onboarding in your project.
What does Harness Onboarding need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Harness Onboarding is instructions for the agent only.
Does Harness Onboarding 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 Harness Onboarding 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 Harness Onboarding use?
Harness Onboarding has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.
How many tokens does Harness Onboarding use?
About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.8k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
What are the alternatives to Harness Onboarding?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Harness Onboarding: Using Agent Skills (addyosmani/agent-skills, 104k stars), Claude Reflect (BayramAnnakov/claude-reflect, 1.8k stars), Neat-Freak Knowledge Closeout (KKKKhazix/khazix-skills, 21k stars) and Writing For Agents (bestofjs/bestofjs, 3.1k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Harness Onboarding?
Habitat-Thinking (a GitHub organization) maintains it in Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers, which has 114 GitHub stars. The repository holds 42 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 20, 2026.
Source: Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.