harness-improvement-loop
Use when turning repeated failures, weak evals, weak handoffs, or trace blind spots into concrete improvements to the development harness.
SKILL.md.claude/skills/harness-improvement-loop/SKILL.md
GitHubHarness 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
- Collect evidence from failures, traces, or weak reviews.
- Classify the recurring pattern.
- Identify the likely harness-level cause.
- Propose a small high-leverage improvement.
- Define rollout steps.
- Define how to validate the improvement.
Output contract
Return:
- recurring pattern
- evidence
- likely harness cause
- improvement proposal
- rollout plan
- success criteria