Brooks Harness

Brooks Harness is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by hyhmrright in brooks-lint.

1.4K stars61 forkson hyhmrright/brooks-lintAdded 2026/08/19+6% in starsRepository updated 2026/08/14

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Install Brooks Harness

Copy Brooks Harness into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/hyhmrright/brooks-lint/tree/main/.claude/skills/brooks-harness ~/.claude/skills/brooks-harness

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/hyhmrright/brooks-lint.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: .claude/skills/brooks-harness/SKILL.md in hyhmrright/brooks-lint
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/brooks-harness
Collection: One of 9 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Brooks Harness does

Brooks Harness orchestrates maintenance work on the brooks-lint plugin itself, running a sequential pipeline of skill-author, eval-curator, consistency-qa, trigger-boundary-auditor, and release-manager agents. Use it when a maintainer asks to add or edit skills, refresh evals, sync docs, audit trigger boundaries, or release brooks-lint.

Brooks Harness is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Brooks Harness comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, ai-code-review, architecture-review, auto-fix and claude-code.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

brooks-lint — Maintenance Harness (Orchestrator)

This skill orchestrates work on the brooks-lint repo itself. It runs a sequential subagent pipeline: each stage is a dedicated agent defined in .claude/agents/. Spawn each with the Agent tool, subagent_type set to the agent name, and always model: "opus". Stages depend on each other in order, so this is a pipeline, not a parallel team.

Pipeline

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Brooks Harness

What else does hyhmrright publish alongside Brooks Harness?
Brooks Harness is one of 9 skills that DirSkills catalogs from hyhmrright/brooks-lint, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Brooks Audit, Brooks Debt and Brooks Health. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Brooks Harness does, and is maintained by hyhmrright in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the hyhmrright/brooks-lint page.
How does Brooks Harness compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Brooks Harness ranks #1042 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Brooks Harness against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.