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AI EngineeringPython

Design Harness

by tigerless-labs

Design Harness is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by tigerless-labs in design-harness.

215 stars33 forkson tigerless-labs/design-harnessAdded 2026/09/04+1% in starsRepository updated 2026/09/01
agent-skillsai-agentsclaude-codeclaude-code-plugincodexdecision-supportevidence-basedknowledge-managementliterature-reviewmarkdownprovenanceresearch-tools
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Install Design Harness
Copy Design 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/tigerless-labs/design-harness/tree/master/plugins/design-harness/skills/design-harness ~/.claude/skills/design-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/tigerless-labs/design-harness.git

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

In this catalog

Source file
plugins/design-harness/skills/design-harness/SKILL.md in tigerless-labs/design-harness
Installs to
~/.claude/skills/design-harness
Collection
The only skill cataloged from this repository
Category
AI Engineering2970 skills

What Design Harness does

Design Harness helps an agent organize evidence, candidate ideas, and final output for contested decisions. Use it for literature reviews, vendor selection, due diligence, or other calls that need human judgment and traceable sources.

Design Harness is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Design Harness comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, ai-agents, claude-code, claude-code-plugin and codex.

Commands Design Harness provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

  • /docs

Frequently asked about Design Harness

  • How does Design Harness compare to other AI Engineering skills?

    Design Harness ranks #2641 by stars among the 2970 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 Design Harness against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.