Agent skill

N Agentic Harnesses Codex

by NateBJones-Projects in NateBJones-Projects/OB1

Designs, evaluates, and improves agentic harnesses for developer tools, assistants, workflow runtimes, copilots, and AI-powered products.

Custom licenceAuto-check passedAgent Workflows

Install N Agentic Harnesses Codex

skills CLI
$ npx skills add NateBJones-Projects/OB1 --skill n-agentic-harnesses-codex -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install NateBJones-Projects/OB1 n-agentic-harnesses-codex --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/NateBJones-Projects/OB1.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/n-agentic-harnesses/variants/codex .claude/skills/n-agentic-harnesses-codex && 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
n-agentic-harnesses-codex
GitHub stars
4.7k
Token cost
~2k tokens
SKILL.md length
607 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
24
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Designs, evaluates, and improves agentic harnesses for developer tools, assistants, workflow runtimes, copilots, and AI-powered products.

  • Works in 3 steps: Classify The Request → Classify The Product Shape → Read The Smallest Useful Reference Set
  • Tasks that involve Planning
  • SKILL.md covers Step 1: Classify The Request, Step 2: Classify The Product…, Step 3: Read The Smallest… and Operating Rules, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

N Agentic Harnesses Codex is an agent skill from NateBJones-Projects/OB1. Designs, evaluates, and improves agentic harnesses for developer tools, assistants, workflow runtimes, copilots, and AI-powered products. Applies when work involves defining or reviewing tool-use architecture, permissions, workflow state, durability, context and memory systems, evaluation strategy, observability, user experience, or phased implementation plans for an agentic system.

Its SKILL.md is about 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 Planning, UX design and Observability. The repository describes itself as: Open Brain — The infrastructure layer for your thinking. One database, one AI gateway, one chat channel — any AI plugs in. No middleware, no SaaS.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Planning
  • Tasks that involve UX design
  • Tasks that involve Observability

Example prompts

  • “/n-agentic-harnesses-codex”

Workflow steps

3 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Classify The Request
  2. Classify The Product Shape
  3. Read The Smallest Useful Reference Set

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 238df6c. 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

N Agentic Harnesses Codex loads about 2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 103 tokens; SKILL.md has 607 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~103
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~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

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 607 words (~2,043 tokens).

“Use this skill as a router for designing, building, and evaluating agentic harnesses.”

— opening of SKILL.md by NateBJones-Projects, Custom licence
name
n-agentic-harnesses-codex
metadata.priority
6
metadata.pathPatterns
**/*harness*, **/*agent-runtime*, **/*agent_runtime*, **/*orchestrat*, **/*workflow*, **/*tool-registry*, **/*tool_registry*, **/*permission*, **/*approval*…
metadata.importPatterns
@modelcontextprotocol/*, langgraph, @langchain/*, langchain, @vercel/workflow
metadata.bashPatterns
\bnpm\s+(install|i|add)\s+[^\n]*(langgraph|langchain|@vercel/workflow|@modelcontextprotocol)\b, \bpnpm\s+(install|i|add)\s+[^\n]*(langgraph|langchain|@vercel/w…

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/n-agentic-harnesses/variants/codex of NateBJones-Projects/OB1.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 238df6c

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Questions about N Agentic Harnesses Codex

What does N Agentic Harnesses Codex do?

Designs, evaluates, and improves agentic harnesses for developer tools, assistants, workflow runtimes, copilots, and AI-powered products. N Agentic Harnesses Codex is an agent skill from NateBJones-Projects/OB1. Designs, evaluates, and improves agentic harnesses for developer tools, assistants, workflow runtimes, copilots, and AI-powered products.

When should I use N Agentic Harnesses Codex?

N Agentic Harnesses Codex fits situations like: tasks that involve Planning; tasks that involve UX design; tasks that involve Observability.

How do I install N Agentic Harnesses Codex in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add NateBJones-Projects/OB1 --skill n-agentic-harnesses-codex -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/n-agentic-harnesses/variants/codex in NateBJones-Projects/OB1) into .claude/skills/n-agentic-harnesses-codex in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install N Agentic Harnesses Codex in Codex?

Run `npx skills add NateBJones-Projects/OB1 --skill n-agentic-harnesses-codex -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/n-agentic-harnesses/variants/codex in NateBJones-Projects/OB1) into .agents/skills/n-agentic-harnesses-codex in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use N Agentic Harnesses Codex 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 NateBJones-Projects/OB1 --skill n-agentic-harnesses-codex -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/n-agentic-harnesses-codex, .gemini/skills/n-agentic-harnesses-codex, .github/skills/n-agentic-harnesses-codex and .opencode/skills/n-agentic-harnesses-codex in your project.

What does N Agentic Harnesses Codex need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: N Agentic Harnesses Codex is instructions for the agent only.

Does N Agentic Harnesses Codex 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 N Agentic Harnesses Codex 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 N Agentic Harnesses Codex use?

N Agentic Harnesses Codex 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 N Agentic Harnesses Codex use?

About 2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 8.2k 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 N Agentic Harnesses Codex?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with N Agentic Harnesses Codex: Rfc Writer (mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, 1.4k stars), AWS Agentic AI (zxkane/aws-skills, 367 stars), Ax Agent (dosco/aithy, 107 stars) and Mcaf Feature Spec (managedcode/Storage, 138 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains N Agentic Harnesses Codex?

NateBJones-Projects (a GitHub organization) maintains it in NateBJones-Projects/OB1, which has 4,703 GitHub stars. The repository holds 24 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 8, 2026.

Source: NateBJones-Projects/OB1 on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.