Harness Starter Kit is an open-source agent orchestration boilerplate developed by harnessworks. It provides a standardized baseline repository layout, command infrastructure, and universal agent skill packages designed to scaffold, evaluate, and deploy customized autonomous coding agent workflows. In day-to-day operation, the kit establishes a structured environment comprising specialized command definitions (`commands/`), reusable agent skills (`agent-skills/`), and continuous benchmarking suites (`benchmarks/`). Developers configure tasks, evaluate agent execution against built-in benchmark oracles, and attach modular skills using project-level configuration stored in `.harness`. Unlike monolithic standalone CLI agents, Harness Starter Kit focuses on the scaffolding layer required to build and evaluate custom agents. It decouples core agent capability modules into explicit, testable skills while integrating standardized benchmarking tools directly into the development cycle. Distributed as an open-source project on GitHub under the harnessworks organization, the starter kit is actively tagged with semantic releases and versioned packages.
Tags: agent harness, ai agent, cli, coding agent, developer tools, OpenSource