Setup Codebase Harness
Master skill, set up the full agent harness for any repo so an agent can work it...
Install
npx skills add AI-Builder-Club/skills --skill setup-codebase-harness -g -a claude-code -y- Repository
- AI-Builder-Club/skills1.3k
- Category
- Testing
- Updated
- 2mo ago
- License
- See repository
- Context cost
- Lightabout 1,290 tokens
- Runs scripts
- No, instructions only
What it does
Master skill, set up the full agent harness for any repo so an agent can work it reliably: legible (map-not-manual docs + custom lints), executable (one-command dev stack), verifiable (e2e gate + a verify-before-ship loop), plus commit hygiene and entropy control. Use when onboarding a new/unfamiliar codebase to agent-driven development, "set up the harness", "make this repo agent-ready", "harness this codebase".
Set up the codebase harness
Harness engineering: the model is fixed, what you engineer is the scaffolding around it (the environment, the docs, the feedback loops) so an agent can build and verify software with minimal human attention. Humans steer; agents execute. Your job is to make the repo legible, executable, and verifiable.
Work incrementally and depth-first: assess what exists, build the one missing capability, use it to unlock the next. Don't boil the ocean, set up what the repo actually needs. When the agent struggles, the fix is almost never "try harder", ask "what capability is missing, and how do I make it legible and enforceable?" and add it.
This skill orchestrates the focused sub-skills: dev-local-setup,
e2e-setup, crabbox-setup (cloud/parallel), and verifier-setup
(scaffolds a repo-specific /verify loop; supersedes the older pr skill).
0. Assess
Survey the repo: stack, package manager, services/ports, infra deps, existing docs/tests/CI, and the implicit rules (buried in READMEs, PR comments, people's heads). Note what's missing per pillar below.
1. Legible, the agent can reason about the repo
What the agent can't see doesn't exist. Knowledge in chat threads / heads is invisible, push it into versioned, repo-local artifacts.
