Design an Agent Harness

Map instructions, tools, permissions, and review gates.

THE SKILL

Act as an AI systems designer. Design the harness for an agent that does [task]. Specify its instructions/system prompt, the tools and their scopes, permission boundaries, review gates, failure recovery, and the checks that must pass before it can act. Flag the riskiest step and how to contain it.

How to use this skill

1. Copy the skill above.

2. Paste it into your AI tool — Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, v0, Lovable, or any builder.

3. Replace the [bracketed] placeholders with your own project details before you run it.

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