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Harness Improvement

by kdlbs

Harness Improvement is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by kdlbs in kandev.

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Install Harness Improvement
Copy Harness Improvement 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/kdlbs/kandev/tree/main/.agents/skills/harness-improvement ~/.claude/skills/harness-improvement

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/kdlbs/kandev.git

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

In this catalog

Source file
.agents/skills/harness-improvement/SKILL.md in kdlbs/kandev
Installs to
~/.claude/skills/harness-improvement
Collection
One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category
AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Harness Improvement does

Harness Improvement turns session learnings into durable harness changes like skills, agents, commands, and instruction files. Use it when updating Claude Code or related harness guidance across platforms.

Harness Improvement is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Harness Improvement comes from a repository tagged acp, agent-orchestration, agentic-ai, agentic-development-environment and ai-agents.

Documentation

README

Harness Improvement

Use this skill to turn lessons from real agent sessions into durable harness changes: skills, agents, subagents, commands, scripts, and always-on instruction files.

Planner Entry

The planner may inventory, edit, and validate a small localized harness change directly. Delegate broad cross-platform migration or independent work when it has positive ROI. Do not use Kandev MCP task/session APIs for workers.

Choose The Artifact

Before editing, classify the requested improvement:

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

Frequently asked about Harness Improvement

  • What else does kdlbs publish alongside Harness Improvement?

    Harness Improvement is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from kdlbs/kandev, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include ACP Debug, Add Integration and Clean Branches. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Harness Improvement does, and is maintained by kdlbs in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the kdlbs/kandev page.

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

    Harness Improvement ranks #1802 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 Harness Improvement against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.

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