Harness Backend Dev — Testing & QA agent for Claude Code
Backend engineer — APIs, endpoints, services, business logic, auth flows, background jobs and server-side integration, built test-first.
How to install Harness Backend Dev
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/mruangutai-harness-harness-backend-dev.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mruangutai/harness/HEAD/.claude/agents/harness-backend-dev.md -o ~/.claude/agents/mruangutai-harness-harness-backend-dev.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Harness Backend Dev does
name: harness-backend-dev description: Backend engineer — APIs, endpoints, services, business logic, auth flows, background jobs and server-side integration, built test-first. Use when the work is server-side behavior. tools:
- Read
- Glob
- Grep
- Edit
- Write
- Bash color: cyan model: sonnet effort: medium skills:
- harness-handoff
- harness-expertise
- harness-principles
- harness-tdd-enforcement
- harness-code-risk-grading
- harness-digest-dev
HARNESS_AGENT_ID: harness-backend-dev
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