Harness (Agent Team Designer)
Multi-agent orchestration is a core enterprise AI architecture pattern — a meta-skill that designs the right team topology for any project reduces the expert…
Meta-skill that designs domain-specific agent teams for Claude Code using six architectural patterns: Pipeline, Fan-out/Fan-in, Expert Pool, Producer-Reviewer, Supervisor, and Hierarchical Delegation. Say "build a harness for this project" and it generates agent definitions (.claude/agents/) and skills (.claude/skills/) tailored to your domain.
- Design a team of specialized agents for a complex project
- Choose the right orchestration pattern for your use case
- Auto-generate agent definitions and skill files from requirements
Multi-agent orchestration is a core enterprise AI architecture pattern — a meta-skill that designs the right team topology for any project reduces the expertise required to deploy agentic systems.
AI architects and senior developers building complex multi-agent systems who need a structured approach to decomposing work across specialized agents.
https://github.com/revfactory/harness
By revfactory
How to Get It
/plugin marketplace add revfactory/harness /plugin install harness@harness-marketplace # Or install directly as a global skill: cp -r skills/harness ~/.claude/skills/harness
After installing, paste this into Claude:
Help me design a team of specialized agents for a complex project
Trust Signals Reviewed
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Discussed on Hacker News, Reddit
- We should find ways to harness this inexhaustible energy source. — Reddit · 30439 pts
- Paragliding instructor dangles without a harness and then falls to the ground. H — Reddit · 1088 pts
- What are those really good harnesses yall are always talking about? Also…Look at — Reddit · 1086 pts
3 mentions across 1 sources
Reviewer notes
Reviewed review. These are observations, not a security certification.
audit 2026-07-05 stale-eval refresh: Scored from trust signals (evidence-eval-v1): 8,207 GitHub stars; 2 contributors; last commit 25d ago; license Apache-2.0.
2026-05-10: Useful for getting a multi-agent architecture off the ground faster—you describe a domain problem and Harness maps it to one of six team topologies, then spits out agent definitions and skill stubs. In practice, that scaffolding saves the whiteboard argument but not the real work: the generated files are starting points, not production-ready configs, and vague requirements produce generic output you'll spend time unwinding anyway. With only 2 contributors and 2 production mentions despite strong star growth, treat this as a design accelerator for architects who already know what they're doing, not a turnkey solution for teams new to agentic systems.
2026-04-02: LIMITATION: Generates agent topology blueprints but doesn't validate that generated agents actually work. Outputs require hands-on testing before production use.
Things to check
- Output quality depends on domain clarity; vague requirements produce generic scaffolding requiring significant manual refinement. Patterns are templates—actual skill logic and inter-agent coordination still require domain expertise and testing.
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Evaluation
audit 2026-07-05 stale-eval refresh: Scored from trust signals (evidence-eval-v1): 8,207 GitHub stars; 2 contributors; last commit 25d ago; license Apache-2.0.