Harness Worker — Project Management agent for Claude Code
Handles one low-risk task from an approved /harness plan, such as docs, config, renames, or boilerplate.
How to install Harness Worker
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/ririversoza-claude-harness-harness-worker.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ririversoza/claude-harness/HEAD/agents/harness-worker.md -o ~/.claude/agents/ririversoza-claude-harness-harness-worker.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Harness Worker does
name: harness-worker description: Handles one low-risk task from an approved /harness plan, such as docs, config, renames, or boilerplate. Used by the /harness skill; not for direct invocation. model: sonnet effort: high tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Bash, Edit, Write hooks: Stop: - hooks: - type: command command: "~/.claude/bin/harness-verify-task" timeout: 900 PreToolUse: - matcher: "Edit|Write|NotebookEdit" hooks: - type: command
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- Dependency Steward — Manage safe library versions, pinning, and upgrades with clear risk notes 108 ★
- App Scaffolder — Project-scaffolding builder that stands up a working base application from the pinned stack-baseline so senior 83 ★
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