harness-skills

How to use harness-skills

git clone https://github.com/harness/harness-skills.git
cd harness-skills
claude

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "harness-mcp-v2": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "harness-mcp-v2"],
      "env": {
        "HARNESS_API_KEY": "<your-api-key>"
      }
    }
  }
}

What is harness-skills?

harness-skills is a Shell AI agent skill for Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code with git clone. A collection of structured AI agent skills that enable Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and other AI coding assistants to create, operate, debug, and govern Harness CI/CD workflows through. This profile combines repository metadata with install, compatibility, and usage signals so developers can quickly decide whether it fits their agent workflow before opening the source repository.

Key capabilities

• Reusable instructions support
• Includes SKILL.md support
• Shell commands support
• Document generation support
• OpenAI provider support
• Anthropic provider support
• skills/ai-operations/SKILL.md config support

Technical details

Install or run harness-skills using git clone. Check harness/harness-skills for the latest setup command.

• Built for Shell
• Built for Node.js
• Built for Python
• Built for Go
• Install or run with git clone
• Works with Cursor
• Works with Windsurf
• Works with VS Code

Requirements and access

Security and permissions

Review permissions before connecting any MCP server to an agent. Pay special attention to whether it can read local files, write data, call external services, or perform destructive actions.

When to use harness-skills

• Use it for reusing agent instructions, scripts, and references.
• Use it for agent skills workflows.
• Use it for coding workflows.
• Use it for data workflows.
• Use it for cursor users.

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