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Imported from sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills (skills/ecl-harness-engineer/SKILL.md). Install upstream with npx skills add sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill ecl-harness-engineer. Copyright stays with the author (MIT).

ECL Harness Engineer

Name: ecl-harness-engineer
Author: sickn33

Design and create Harness Engineering infrastructure so AI agents can work reliably in a codebase.

Core Philosophy: "Intelligence without infrastructure is just a demo." The Agent Harness is the Operating System — the LLM is just the CPU. The repository becomes the single source of truth — if an agent can't see it in context, it doesn't exist.

Detailed Guide

Read the detailed guide before executing this skill. It retains the complete procedure and reference material. Treat its safety, prerequisites, and validation requirements as mandatory. For focused work, load the relevant sections; for end-to-end work, read the guide completely.

When to Use This Skill

Use when a repository needs AI-agent collaboration infrastructure such as AGENTS.md, docs/ECL.md, docs/STATUS.md, harness change tracking, or mechanical validation gates.
Use when auditing an existing Agent Harness for missing ECL lifecycle docs, change templates, lint checks, environment contracts, or CI integration.
Use when converting repeated agent workflow failures into repository-local documentation, tests, lint rules, or lightweight auto-evolution checks.
Do not use for ordinary business feature implementation unless the requested work is specifically about creating or improving the repository harness.

Limitations

This skill creates or audits harness infrastructure; it does not replace product requirements, implementation planning, code review, or release approval for the target project.
The generated ECL docs, linters, scripts, and CI examples must be adapted to the repository's actual stack, security model, and existing contributor workflow before enforcement.
Auto-evolve recommendations are guidance only. Apply harness changes through normal review, validation, and rollback discipline instead of accepting them as autonomous policy changes.

Use it

Copy one of these into your project. Installing also returns the manifest and these snippets.

yaml

targets:
  - https://api.opensmartroute.ai/api/v1/registry/sickn33-agentic-awesome-skills-ecl-harness-engineer/manifest   # or paste the manifest below

Manifest

An Open Capability Manifest: the router reads it to know what this does, what it costs and when to pick it.

sickn33-agentic-awesome-skills-ecl-harness-engineer.ocm.jsonjson

{
  "ocm": "1",
  "id": "sickn33-agentic-awesome-skills-ecl-harness-engineer",
  "kind": "skill",
  "name": "ecl-harness-engineer",
  "description": "Create or audit ECL Agent Harness infrastructure: AGENTS.md, change tracking, repository guidance, lint checks, CI gates, and agent handoff docs.",
  "publisher": "sickn33",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "capabilities": {
    "domains": [
      "general"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "skill-md",
      "codex",
      "agent-harness",
      "ecl",
      "workflow",
      "ci",
      "skills-sh"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "en"
    ]
  },
  "quality_prior": 0.6,
  "examples": [
    "Create or audit ECL Agent Harness infrastructure: AGENTS.md, change tracking, repository guidance, lint checks, CI gates, and agent handoff docs."
  ],
  "primary": false,
  "metadata": {
    "source": {
      "provider": "skills.sh",
      "repository": "https://github.com/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills",
      "path": "skills/ecl-harness-engineer/SKILL.md",
      "ref": "HEAD",
      "url": "https://github.com/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills/blob/HEAD/skills/ecl-harness-engineer/SKILL.md",
      "key": "sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills/skills/ecl-harness-engineer/SKILL.md"
    },
    "license": "MIT"
  },
  "instructions": "# ECL Harness Engineer\nDesign and create Harness Engineering infrastructure so AI agents can work reliably in a codebase.\n\n> **Core Philosophy**: \"Intelligence without infrastructure is just a demo.\" The Agent Harness is the Operating System — the LLM is just the CPU. The repository becomes the single source of truth — if an agent can't see it in context, it doesn't exist.\n\n## Detailed Guide\n\nRead [the detailed guide](references/detailed-guide.md) before executing this skill. It retains the complete procedure and reference material. Treat its safety, prerequisites, and validation requirements ",
  "cost": {
    "context_tokens": 482
  }
}

Fetch it by URL: GET /api/v1/registry/sickn33-agentic-awesome-skills-ecl-harness-engineer/manifest?version=1.0.0

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