Harness Validator Lead — Testing & QA agent for Claude Code
Validation lead — runs the reviewer panel, assesses and synthesizes its findings into one actionable set, and is the independence layer over qa.
How to install Harness Validator Lead
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/mruangutai-harness-harness-validator-lead.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mruangutai/harness/HEAD/.claude/agents/harness-validator-lead.md -o ~/.claude/agents/mruangutai-harness-harness-validator-lead.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Harness Validator Lead does
name: harness-validator-lead description: Validation lead — runs the reviewer panel, assesses and synthesizes its findings into one actionable set, and is the independence layer over qa. Conducts the review team. Use when the question is whether work is correct, tested, safe and visually faithful. tools:
- Read
- Glob
- Grep
- Agent
- Write color: orange model: opus effort: medium skills:
- harness-handoff
- harness-expertise
- harness-principles
- harness-zero-micro-management
- harness-tea
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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