Objective

Translate harness principles into enforceable implementation and operational patterns.

Use This Skill When

• •Designing new agent context files, templates, or lifecycle workflows.
• •Evaluating whether a solution relies on trust vs mechanical enforcement.
• •Improving error messaging, remediation loops, or drift visibility.

Procedure

1. •Keep context short, structured, and pointer-first.
2. •Encode conventions in templates, rules, tests, or linters.
3. •Build feedback loops that let agents self-correct from observable state.
4. •Add status outputs that make drift visible without manual inspection.
5. •Prefer reusable constraints that scale across agents and codebases.

Guardrails

• •Avoid monolithic instruction files.
• •Avoid manual synchronization checklists as primary control.
• •Prefer deterministic systems over subjective reminders.

Done Criteria

• •New behavior is mechanically enforced, not advisory.
• •Error outputs include direct remediation guidance.
• •Cross-agent drift risk is reduced by design.