Harvest

Harvest is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by mattgierhart in PRD-driven-context-engineering.

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Install Harvest

Copy Harvest 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/mattgierhart/PRD-driven-context-engineering/tree/main/.claude/skills/ghm-harvest ~/.claude/skills/ghm-harvest

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/mattgierhart/PRD-driven-context-engineering.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: .claude/skills/ghm-harvest/SKILL.md in mattgierhart/PRD-driven-context-engineering
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/ghm-harvest
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 2109 skills

What Harvest does

Harvest extracts durable insights from temp files into source-of-truth documents during EPIC Phase E. Use it when an EPIC finishes or when you explicitly run /ghm-harvest to create new entries and an archive manifest.

Harvest is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Harvest comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, agentic-coding, ai-agents, ai-assisted and claude.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Harvest

Extract durable insights from temporary files to Source of Truth during EPIC Phase E (Finish).

Workflow Overview

Enumerate Temps → List all temp/ files from current EPIC
Identify SoT-worthy → Determine what should persist
Format Entries → Convert to proper SoT templates
Archive → Move temps to archive, update manifest

Core Output Template

Element	Definition	Evidence
Temp Files	Files processed	List with paths
New SoT Entries	IDs created	BR-XXX, UJ-XXX, etc.
Archive Manifest	What was archived	Paths and dates
Discarded	What was not kept	Reason for each

Harvest Decision Matrix

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

Frequently asked about Harvest

What else does mattgierhart publish alongside Harvest?
Harvest is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from mattgierhart/PRD-driven-context-engineering, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Architecture Design, Competitive Landscape Mapping and Environment Setup. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Harvest does, and is maintained by mattgierhart in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the mattgierhart/PRD-driven-context-engineering page.
How does Harvest compare to other Automation skills?
Harvest ranks #1910 by stars among the 2109 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. 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 Harvest against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.