harness-improvement-loop

Use when turning repeated failures, weak evals, weak handoffs, or trace blind spots into concrete improvements to the development harness.

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Harness Improvement Loop

Use this skill when

  • the same class of issue keeps recurring
  • generated work often needs the same correction
  • verification is repeatedly weak
  • handoffs are not good enough
  • traces are insufficient for diagnosis

Goals

  • improve the harness instead of only fixing local artefacts
  • reduce repeated waste
  • strengthen planning, generation, evaluation, and handoff quality

Process

  1. Collect evidence from failures, traces, or weak reviews.
  2. Classify the recurring pattern.
  3. Identify the likely harness-level cause.
  4. Propose a small high-leverage improvement.
  5. Define rollout steps.
  6. Define how to validate the improvement.

Output contract

Return:

  • recurring pattern
  • evidence
  • likely harness cause
  • improvement proposal
  • rollout plan
  • success criteria