Topics — Development skill for Claude Code
List the topic registry from harness.config.json with id, title, namespace, and lifecycle status.
How to install Topics
Installs to ~/.claude/commands/modeled-information-format-research-harness-template-topics.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/commands && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/modeled-information-format/research-harness-template/HEAD/.claude/commands/topics.md -o ~/.claude/commands/modeled-information-format-research-harness-template-topics.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Topics does
name: topics description: List the topic registry from harness.config.json with id, title, namespace, and lifecycle status. argument-hint: "[--filter ] [--ids]" allowed-tools:
- Bash
- Read
Topics
Lists the research topic registry from `harness.config.json` `topics[]`. The config is the single declarative manifest (SPEC §7) and the deploy contract — it is where a clone declares its topics. Read-only.
Arguments
Parse `$ARGUMENTS`. **Input sanitization**: truncate to 2
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