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Running the Harness Evolution / Critic self-improvement cycle — addressing unaddressed critiques, gating result:ok on real metrics, editing harness scripts…

Skill by GentechLabs

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Works with Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, VS Code, OpenCode, Goose, Windsurf. Read the repository before you give any tool access to your data.

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Running the Harness Evolution / Critic self-improvement cycle — addressing unaddressed critiques, gating result:ok on real metrics, editing harness scripts under the terminal blocklist. Prevents the harness from grading its own homework. Session detail: references/evolve-77-session-notes.md.

Use cases: writing, productivity, agent-building

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What this skill can do and what it asks for, from its SKILL.md. Checked Oct 25, 2026.

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Network hosts it talks to 1

  • codeload.github.com · found in install command

Files it touches

  • ~/.claude/skills/harness-self-evolution

What's inside

Skill name
harness-self-evolution
Description
Running the Harness Evolution / Critic self-improvement cycle — addressing unaddressed critiques, gating result:ok on real metrics, editing harness scripts under the terminal blocklist. Prevents the harness from grading its own homework. Session detail: references/evolve-77-session-notes.md.
License
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Instructions
639 lines in SKILL.md · view on GitHub

Before installing

  • Ships executable scripts
  • Instructions call the network
  • Instructions read files in your home folder (~/.ssh, ~/.aws…)

Agent Skills spec issues

  • body: 639 lines (spec recommends under 500)
  • files: referenced but missing: scripts/selftest-metric-gate.sh, scripts/selftest-stale-plan-guard.sh, scripts/execution-loop.sh, scripts/selftest-detail-metric-gate.sh, scripts/skill-automation.sh

Files (23)

  • .skill_id
  • SKILL.md
  • SKILL.md.bak-split-20260926
  • behavior-lock-anti-degeneration.md · references/
  • credential-health-delta-mode.md · references/
  • diagnosing-silent-dispatch-failures.md · references/
  • dispatch-lock-reentrancy.md · references/
  • evolve-65-pitfalls.md · references/
  • evolve-77-session-notes.md · references/
  • evolve-loop-gotchas.md · references/
  • guard-falsifiability.md · references/
  • harness-debugging-pitfalls.md · references/
  • metric-and-loop-pitfalls.md · references/
  • metric-authoring-gates.md · references/
  • metric-authoring-pitfalls.md · references/
  • metric-gate-selftest.md · references/
  • parser-safe-metrics.md · references/
  • plan-file-contract.md · references/
  • post-dispatch-reverification.md · references/
  • set-e-abort-before-audit.md · references/
  • verifier-due-date-adjudication.md · references/
  • verifier-due-date-adjudication.md.bak-promote-20260922-121848 · references/
  • reverify-row-probe.sh · scripts/

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harness-self-evolution skill. Agent Mart. https://agentmart.dev/skills/gentechlabs-harness-self-evolution (last updated 2026-10-24)