OIA Manifest

OIA Manifest is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by ruvnet in metaharness.

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Install OIA Manifest

Copy OIA Manifest 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/oia-manifest ~/.claude/skills/oia-manifest

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/oia-manifest/SKILL.md in ruvnet/metaharness
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/oia-manifest
Collection: One of 16 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What OIA Manifest does

OIA Manifest emits and validates .harness/oia-manifest.json for an OIA v0.1 harness. Use it to record layer alignment, horizontal spans, and adjacent standards, or to check drift with --check.

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

Documentation

README

Excerpt

oia-manifest

Codex skill: emit/validate the OIA cross-cutting manifest layer (ADR-034, iter 121 → iter 122).

What it does

Emits .harness/oia-manifest.json — the harness's self-assessment against the Open Intelligence Architecture (OIA) v0.1 9-layer reference model published by the Agentics Foundation at https://oia.agentics.org.

The manifest declares:

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

Commands OIA Manifest provides

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

/oia-manifest

Frequently asked about OIA Manifest

What else does ruvnet publish alongside OIA Manifest?
OIA Manifest 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 OIA Manifest does, and is maintained by ruvnet in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the ruvnet/metaharness page.
How does OIA Manifest compare to other AI Engineering skills?
OIA Manifest ranks #1927 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 OIA Manifest against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.