Concise skills rollout: harness-config (10 skills, 9 model-invoked) #6555

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   • Concise skills: one skill-creation standard, evals, and a fleet-wide rollout #6476
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   Proposed work class: work-class: structural
   Basis: automated intake triage; the lanes App applied this class.

   Size: Large
   Complexity: Medium
   Uncertainty: Known
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   Understood: this is the harness-config part of the concise-skills rollout (#6476). It rewrites the plugin's 10 skills to the skill criteria, following the per-plugin runbook. The latest comment says the owner rules already cover the eval spend, so no cost decision is open. The work is too big for one change. It should be split into sub-issues, with outcome eval cases first and then rewrite slices of a few skills each, as that comment's criteria describe. I found no likely duplicates among the open issues.

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7. kyle-sexton commented on Oct 22, 2026

   

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   Parked (owner decision 2026-10-21): no eval spend until #7719 resumes hardening. This stays open and resumes then.
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    Not admitted to the issue lane yet: Size large: the split into sub-issues at intake is pending (owner Q93).
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    The latest triage verdict holds nothing: the issue is at status: ready.
13. melodic-automation-lanes commented on Oct 25, 2026

    

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    Refinement. A read-only run explored this repository, searched its issues and pull requests, and read the allowed docs to draft what follows. On an issue a listed human filed, it counts as the issue's spec once posted, while unedited; it is still model text, so check it.

    Intended outcome: Rewrite the 10 harness-config skills to the skill criteria in one draft PR with a per-skill decision table, every description and body measured, once eval spend is approved.

    Dependencies

    • #​7719: owner parked eval spend until hardening resumes
    • #​6476: parent rollout

    Related work

    • feat(harness-ops): concise skill text measured by evals, plus outcome cases and probes #7434 (related): Same rewrite for harness-ops, a precedent for the runbook flow.
    • feat(skill-quality): skill-criteria standard, WARN checks and rewrite tooling for concise skills #6503 (related): Skill-criteria standard and rewrite tooling this rollout uses.

    Open questions

    1. Should the lane hold this issue until #​7719 resumes hardening and the owner approves the /evals:plugin-eval spend?
       RECOMMENDED: Yes, hold; do not start measured passes until the owner records eval spend approval. Basis: kyle-sexton comment 2026-10-22: parked, no eval spend until #​7719 resumes hardening
    2. Should the body gain a task list so the criteria are checkable, with the two person-only items (approve eval spend, mark PR ready) split out?
       RECOMMENDED: Yes: add task items for the PR merging with a per-skill decision table, every shipped description and body measured, and any unmeasured skill named with a reason. Basis: judgment

    Sources read

    • /home/runner/work/claude-code-plugins/claude-code-plugins/.base/plugins/harness-config/skills: lists 10 skills (audit, audit-automation-gaps, audit-instructions, audit-pass, audit-permission-grants, audit-permission-state, audit-prompting-postures, draft-auto-mode-rules, setup, unhobble), matching the issue

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14. kyle-sexton commented on Oct 26, 2026

    

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    This was generated by AI.

    Releasing the hold: no owner question is open. The refinement asked about eval spend or who runs the eval. Owner rules settle both. Evals run on the subscription login or not at all, never with an API key, and none start while the rate limit is near (Q110). Subscription and prepaid spend are not induced cost (Q46, Q91). Under the owner's 2026-10-26 stop rule (C14), an eval or host run is no longer an owner step, so an agent session runs it. The label comes off and intake triage runs again. Criteria:

    • The issue is split into sub-issues with blocked-by edges before any run (Q93/Q94): outcome eval cases for harness-config first, then rewrite slices of a few skills each.
    • Each rewrite slice's PR carries a per-skill decision table, and every shipped description or body change is backed by a valid measured pass on the subscription.
    • Any skill left unmeasured is named in its PR with the reason.
    • The parent closes when every slice has merged.
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    The triage sweep dispatched intake triage for this issue (attempt 1 of 2).
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    Split at intake (owner Q93). This issue is Size Large, so its done-when is split into 2 sub-issues, each holding its task-list lines as written.

    • Part 1: task-list line 1: Concise skills rollout: harness-config \(10 skills, 9 model-invoked\) - part 1 of 2 #10221
    • Part 2: task-list lines 2, 3, 4, after part 1: Concise skills rollout: harness-config \(10 skills, 9 model-invoked\) - part 2 of 2 #10222

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    • Concise skills rollout: harness-config \(10 skills, 9 model-invoked\) - part 1 of 2 #10221
    • Concise skills rollout: harness-config \(10 skills, 9 model-invoked\) - part 2 of 2 #10222