Harness Protocol FAQs

Question 1

How does the gate system work?

Accepted Answer

Hard gates (subsystem invariants, tier0 tests) must pass for work to be committed. Soft gates (tier1 tests, documentation coverage) provide warnings but allow the process to continue unless too many accumulate.

Question 2

When should I use the Harness Protocol?

Accepted Answer

Use this skill when running autonomous engineering loops where Claude needs to make independent decisions about proceeding, reverting, or pausing work without human supervision.

Question 3

How does it handle context limits?

Accepted Answer

It includes specific triggers to save state, commit existing progress, and pause the harness when context usage reaches critical levels to maintain high reasoning quality.

Question 4

What happens if a task fails?

Accepted Answer

The protocol analyzes if a failure is retryable (like a test flake) or structural. It will attempt one alternate approach for retryable errors before logging a detailed failure report and skipping to the next task.

Question 5

Does this skill help with git management?

Accepted Answer

Yes, it enforces a strict 'one commit per change group' rule with structured messages, ensuring a clean history and making it easy to revert specific failed attempts.

Harness Protocol

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Harness Protocol

主要功能

使用场景