| name | harness |
| description | Run the FULL SDLC pipeline end-to-end — Plan → Implement → Verify → Maintain — with a checkpoint between every phase. Use for a complete feature from a one-line idea to merge-ready. Chains the four phase orchestrators; you approve each phase boundary. |
/harness — the full pipeline
The top-level orchestrator. It walks all four phases by invoking the phase
orchestrators in order, pausing at every phase boundary for your go-ahead. It is a
convenience wrapper — it adds checkpoints and a running summary, nothing the phase
skills don't already do.
Flow
/harness-claude:harness-plan ──▶ [checkpoint] ──▶ /harness-claude:harness-implement ──▶ [checkpoint]
──▶ /harness-claude:harness-verify ──▶ [checkpoint] ──▶ /harness-claude:harness-maintain (optional)
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Plan — run /harness-claude:harness-plan. At its HALTs, get the user's answers/approvals.
→ CHECKPOINT: show the approved spec + plan (+ ADR). Wait for "go" before coding.
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Implement — run /harness-claude:harness-implement against the approved plan.
→ CHECKPOINT: report what was built and test status. Wait for "go" before verify.
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Verify — run /harness-claude:harness-verify. Halt on Critical/High; stop at the git boundary.
→ CHECKPOINT: show review/security verdicts, coverage, observed-working evidence.
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Maintain — offer /harness-claude:harness-maintain. Run it only if the user wants cleanup now.
Rules
- Honor every HALT and CHECKPOINT — this is a guided pipeline, not an autonomous run.
- Delegate heavy work to subagents;
/harness-claude:save-session at each checkpoint so a long feature
survives compaction or a new session.
- Never commit or push without an explicit user ask — branch creation happens automatically
at first write in the Implement phase (
rules/git.md). /harness-claude:harness-verify
ends at "ready to commit/PR."
- For a small change, a single phase orchestrator (or atomic skill) is lighter —
/harness-claude:harness
is for full features.
Output
A phase-by-phase rollup ending in "merge-ready (awaiting your git go-ahead)."
