Give an AI agent a repo it can
actually understand
,
and a harness it
cannot escape
.
AGENT HARNESS BOOTSTRAP
No standard to follow
Hallucinates requirements
Forgets everything on compaction
One turn from reading .env or committing to main
Quietly bills at the top model tier
Two skills build a harness
spec-builder
writes the contract
harness-bootstrap
builds the boundary
the harness the agent runs inside
agent
A controlled, model-independent
agent system
Claude Code
Cursor
Codex
Ports with enforcement, not just advice