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Agent skill

Harness Refresh

by harnessworks in harnessworks/harness-starter-kit

Review stale, duplicated, obsolete, or unused target harness guidance.

MITAuto-check passedDevelopment

Install Harness Refresh

skills CLI
$ npx skills add harnessworks/harness-starter-kit --skill harness-refresh -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install harnessworks/harness-starter-kit harness-refresh --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/harnessworks/harness-starter-kit.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/agent-skills/skills/harness-refresh .claude/skills/harness-refresh && 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
harness-refresh
GitHub stars
114
Token cost
~250 tokens
SKILL.md length
88 words
Files
2
Skills in repo
6
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Review stale, duplicated, obsolete, or unused target harness guidance.

  • Works in 7 steps: Read ../../references/package-contract.md. → Read ../../references/refresh-workflow.md. → If… → …
  • The user asks for /harness refresh
  • SKILL.md covers Steps and Boundaries
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Harness Refresh is an agent skill from harnessworks/harness-starter-kit. Review stale, duplicated, obsolete, or unused target harness guidance. Use when the user asks for /harness refresh or wants harness maintenance recommendations without default edits.

Its SKILL.md is about 250 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files (for example `agents/openai.yaml`).

It sits in Development. The repository describes itself as: 🐴 Prompt-first harness engineering for safer AI coding agent workflows. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • The user asks for /harness refresh
  • Wants harness maintenance recommendations without default edits

Example prompts

  • “/harness-refresh”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Read ../../references/package-contract.md.
  2. Read ../../references/refresh-workflow.md.
  3. If ./harness-starter-kit/commands/harness-refresh.md exists in the
  4. Inspect current harness docs, rules, memory records, checks, and normal
  5. Classify findings as keep, update, merge, archive/delete candidate, or
  6. Run lightweight checks when available.
  7. Produce the Harness Refresh Report.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 62437be. 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 Refresh loads about 250 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 50 tokens; SKILL.md has 88 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~50
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~250

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 harnessworks/harness-starter-kit at commit 62437be, republished under its MIT licence (© harnessworks). 88 words, ~250 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/harness-refresh/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
harness-refresh
description
Review stale, duplicated, obsolete, or unused target harness guidance. Use when the user asks for /harness refresh or wants harness maintenance recommendations without default edits.
argument-hint
[target details]

Harness Refresh

Review an existing target harness for maintenance needs.

Steps

  1. Read ../../references/package-contract.md.
  2. Read ../../references/refresh-workflow.md.
  3. If ./harness-starter-kit/commands/harness-refresh.md exists in the target, prefer that canonical workflow.
  4. Inspect current harness docs, rules, memory records, checks, and normal command wiring.
  5. Classify findings as keep, update, merge, archive/delete candidate, or manual review.
  6. Run lightweight checks when available.
  7. Produce the Harness Refresh Report.

Boundaries

  • Do not delete, archive, move, rename, format, or stage files unless the user explicitly approves the specific files.
  • Report recommendations by default.

© harnessworks, 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 1 other file in agent-skills/skills/harness-refresh of harnessworks/harness-starter-kit.

  • SKILL.md
  • agents/openai.yaml

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 62437be

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Categories

Questions about Harness Refresh

What does Harness Refresh do?

Review stale, duplicated, obsolete, or unused target harness guidance. Harness Refresh is an agent skill from harnessworks/harness-starter-kit. Review stale, duplicated, obsolete, or unused target harness guidance.

When should I use Harness Refresh?

Harness Refresh fits situations like: the user asks for /harness refresh; wants harness maintenance recommendations without default edits.

How do I install Harness Refresh in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Harness Refresh in Codex?

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

Can I use Harness Refresh 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 harnessworks/harness-starter-kit --skill harness-refresh -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-refresh, .gemini/skills/harness-refresh, .github/skills/harness-refresh and .opencode/skills/harness-refresh in your project.

What does Harness Refresh need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Harness Refresh is instructions for the agent only.

Does Harness Refresh 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 Refresh 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 Refresh use?

Harness Refresh 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 Harness Refresh use?

About 250 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1k 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 Refresh?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Harness Refresh: Vercel Composition Patterns (supabase/supabase, 111k stars), Finishing a Development Branch (obra/superpowers, 296k stars), Typescript Advanced Types (rolling-scopes/rsschool-app, 10k stars) and PR Babysitter (openinterpreter/openinterpreter, 69k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Harness Refresh?

harnessworks (a GitHub organization) maintains it in harnessworks/harness-starter-kit, which has 114 GitHub stars. The repository holds 6 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on June 18, 2026.

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