Agent skill

List Templates

by ruvnet in ruvnet/metaharness

List the available harness templates and what each one ships with.

MITAuto-check passedAgent Workflows

Install List Templates

skills CLI
$ npx skills add ruvnet/metaharness --skill list-templates -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install ruvnet/metaharness list-templates --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/ruvnet/metaharness.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude-plugin/skills/list-templates .claude/skills/list-templates && 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
list-templates
GitHub stars
694
Token cost
~417 tokens
SKILL.md length
142 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
14
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

List the available harness templates and what each one ships with.

  • The user asks what templates are available
  • SKILL.md covers Templates today (Iter 2), Hosts each template supports and Roadmap
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • What verticals does the harness generator support

What it does

List Templates is an agent skill from ruvnet/metaharness. List the available harness templates and what each one ships with. Use when the user asks "what templates are available", "what verticals does the harness generator support", or "show me what I can scaffold".

Its SKILL.md is about 420 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 Project scaffolding. It works with Model Context Protocol. The repository describes itself as: 🛠️ The meta-harness for AI agents — scaffold your own focused, branded agent harness with its own npx CLI, MCP server, memory, learning loop, and witness-signed releases. Works… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • The user asks what templates are available
  • What verticals does the harness generator support
  • Show me what I can scaffold

Example prompts

  • “what templates are available”
  • “what verticals does the harness generator support”
  • “show me what I can scaffold”
  • “/list-templates”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit ea287d6. 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

    Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

    • github.com

    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

List Templates loads about 417 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 56 tokens; SKILL.md has 142 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~56
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~417

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 ruvnet/metaharness at commit ea287d6, republished under its MIT licence (© ruvnet). 142 words, ~417 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/list-templates/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
list-templates
description
List the available harness templates and what each one ships with. Use when the user asks "what templates are available", "what verticals does the harness generator support", or "show me what I can scaffold".

list-templates

Lists every harness template create-agent-harness can scaffold from.

Templates today (Iter 2)

TemplateStatusAgentsSkillsMCP serversBest for
minimalIter 2 (this iter)001 (kernel)First-time users, learning the system
vertical:tradingIter 6542 (kernel + market-data)Trading bots, backtesting
vertical:devopsIter 6463 (kernel + alerts + runbook)Incident response, on-call
vertical:legalIter 6352 (kernel + citation-search)Contract review, redline
vertical:supportIter 6442 (kernel + ticket-routing)Customer support, escalation
vertical:researchIter 6653 (kernel + web-search + dossier)Multi-source research dossiers
eject-from-rufloIter 4———Convert an existing ruflo install into your own harness

Hosts each template supports

TemplateClaude CodeCodexpi.devHermes
minimal✅✅✅✅
vertical:*✅✅✅✅
eject-from-ruflo✅(one-way)(one-way)(one-way)

Roadmap

  • Vertical packs ship as separate npm packages (@metaharness/vertical-trading, etc.) so each pack can be owned by a domain expert
  • See ADR-013

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

Files

Just SKILL.md in .claude-plugin/skills/list-templates of ruvnet/metaharness.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit ea287d6

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Drydock Repo Harness SetupYeachan-Heo/oh-my-claudecode40k—~5.2kAutomated safety check: PassMIT

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Questions about List Templates

What does List Templates do?

List the available harness templates and what each one ships with. List Templates is an agent skill from ruvnet/metaharness. List the available harness templates and what each one ships with.

When should I use List Templates?

List Templates fits situations like: the user asks what templates are available; what verticals does the harness generator support; show me what I can scaffold.

How do I install List Templates in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add ruvnet/metaharness --skill list-templates -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude-plugin/skills/list-templates in ruvnet/metaharness) into .claude/skills/list-templates in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install List Templates in Codex?

Run `npx skills add ruvnet/metaharness --skill list-templates -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude-plugin/skills/list-templates in ruvnet/metaharness) into .agents/skills/list-templates in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use List Templates 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 ruvnet/metaharness --skill list-templates -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/list-templates, .gemini/skills/list-templates, .github/skills/list-templates and .opencode/skills/list-templates in your project.

What does List Templates need to run?

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

Does List Templates access the network?

SKILL.md names 1 domain. As links in the text: github.com. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is List Templates 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 List Templates use?

List Templates 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 List Templates use?

About 417 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.

What are the alternatives to List Templates?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with List Templates: Chatgpt Apps (Haohao-end/openagent, 808 stars), Writing Plugins (nukeop/nuclear, 19k stars), MCP Scaffold (timothywarner-org/claude-code, 224 stars) and 1c Project Init (Arman-Kudaibergenov/1c-ai-development-kit, 166 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains List Templates?

ruvnet (a GitHub user) maintains it in ruvnet/metaharness, which has 694 GitHub stars. The repository holds 14 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

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