Example Harness

Example Harness is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by ruvnet in metaharness.

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Install Example Harness

Copy Example 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/ruvnet/metaharness/tree/main/.claude-plugin/skills/example-harness ~/.claude/skills/example-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/ruvnet/metaharness.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: .claude-plugin/skills/example-harness/SKILL.md in ruvnet/metaharness
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/example-harness
Collection: One of 16 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Example Harness does

Example Harness scaffolds a ready-made AI agent harness from published @metaharness example packages. Use it to create host-specific or vertical workflow setups in one command.

Example Harness is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Example Harness comes from a repository tagged agent-harness, agent-harness-generator, agent-scaffolding, agentic-ai and agentic-framework.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

example-harness

One-command scaffolding from the 18 published @metaharness/* example packages — the fastest path from a use-case to a working harness, no template/host flags to remember.

Where create-harness walks the full wizard, this skill maps a use-case straight onto a published npm wrapper. Each wrapper shells out to metaharness@latest with the correct --template + --host flags, so the result is byte-identical to the full CLI invocation.

Install

mkdir -p ~/.codex/skills/example-harness
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ruvnet/agent-harness-generator/main/.codex/skills/example-harness/skill.toml \
  -o ~/.codex/skills/example-harness/skill.toml

No MCP server needed — the wrapper packages run via npx.

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

Commands Example Harness provides

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

/example-harness

Frequently asked about Example Harness

What else does ruvnet publish alongside Example Harness?
Example Harness is one of 16 skills that DirSkills catalogs from ruvnet/metaharness, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Compare Harnesses, Create Harness and Darwin Mode. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Example Harness does, and is maintained by ruvnet in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the ruvnet/metaharness page.
How does Example Harness compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Example Harness ranks #1926 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 Example Harness against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.