harness-kit

Portable configuration for AI coding tools.

Works with Claude Code · Cursor · GitHub Copilot

🧰 What is harness-kit?

Your AI coding setup — plugins, skills, MCP servers, hooks, conventions — packaged into a single config you can apply to any tool on any machine. Build it once, share it with your team in one file.

📦 Install

/plugin marketplace add harnessprotocol/harness-kit

Fallback: install with script (skills only)

If your Claude Code build doesn't support the plugin marketplace:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/harnessprotocol/harness-kit/main/install.sh | bash

Downloads skill files to ~/.claude/skills/ over HTTPS. The full plugin experience (scripts, hooks, agents) requires the marketplace install.

⚡ Quick Start

Install explain — no dependencies, works in any codebase:

/plugin install explain@harness-kit

Then try it:

/explain src/auth/middleware.ts       # explain a specific file
/explain the payment processing flow  # search the codebase for a concept
/explain src/services/                # map a directory

Produces a layered explanation: summary, key components, how it connects, patterns, gotchas, and where to start if you need to change it.

🔌 Plugins

A few highlights to get started:

Plugin	What it does	Try it
`explain`	Layered code explanations for files, functions, directories, or concepts	`/explain src/auth/`
`research`	Process any source into a structured, compounding knowledge base	`/research https://...`
`review`	Code review with severity labels and cross-file analysis	`/review`
`lineage`	Column-level data lineage through SQL, Kafka, Spark, and JDBC	`/lineage orders.amount`

📋 Browse all 16 plugins → or run /plugin marketplace browse harness-kit

🌍 Community

Plugin	Author	What it does
`superpowers`	Jesse Vincent	TDD, systematic debugging, brainstorming-before-coding, subagent delegation, git worktree isolation

/plugin marketplace add obra/superpowers-marketplace
/plugin install superpowers@obra

🔄 Share Your Setup

Export your plugin setup to a harness.yaml, commit it to your dotfiles, and restore it anywhere.

Command	What it does
`/harness-export`	Write `harness.yaml` from your current setup
`/harness-import harness.yaml`	Interactive wizard — pick what to install
`/harness-compile`	Compile to native configs for Claude Code, Cursor, and Copilot
`/harness-sync`	Keep all three tools' configs aligned
`/harness-validate`	Validate against the Harness Protocol v1 schema

Shell fallback (no Claude Code required)

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/harnessprotocol/harness-kit/main/harness-restore.sh | bash -s -- harness.yaml

See harness.yaml.example for the config format. harness.yaml follows the Harness Protocol v1 open spec — a vendor-neutral format for portable AI coding harnesses.

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harness-kit

🧰 What is harness-kit?

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