Agents

Agents

harness-kit ships three agents. Each lives under .claude/agents/<name>/ with its own README, sensors, evals, guides, and skills, and is registered in AGENTS.md. All three are also invokable as sub-agents via the Task tool.

product-manager

Turns a problem into an engineering-ready spec. Two artifacts, two skills:

• prd: Product Requirements Document, business-facing.
• prp: Product Requirements Prompt, the engineering handoff.

Entry: /product-manager:run (full PRD → PRP), or /product-manager:prd / :prp solo. Gated by prd-structure/prd-quality and prp-* sensors and evals. Can publish to Confluence when JIRA_USERNAME + JIRA_API_TOKEN are set.

staff-software-engineer

Turns an approved PRP into a merged PR. Picks the right area skill from the repo's files:

• backend, web, mobile, devops: discipline conventions, overridable per repo via .claude/conventions/{area}.md.

Entry: /sse:run (plan → dev → test → pr → monitor), /sse:run --local (no PR), or the single-stage commands. The SDD variant /sse:sdd runs a spec-driven loop (plan once, dev↔test↔eval until the PRP is satisfied, cap 3 iterations, no auto PR). See Pipeline and Stages.

system-architect

Turns a system/problem into a rigorous System Design Doc, then runs an adversarial design review. Like the SSE agent picks an area skill, this agent picks a topic skill: one per classic system design problem, drawn from the System Design podcast series:

• design: generic fallback for any system.
• review: adversarial staff-level review of an existing design.
• url-shortener (#1), rate-limiter (#2), search-engine (#3): topic playbooks.

Entry: /system-design:run (design → review), /system-design:design, /system-design:review. Gated by design-structure/design-rigor sensors and design-quality/design-review-depth evals. The deep theory and references for each topic live in this wiki. Method: System Design Method.

The pattern they share

All three follow the same harness shape, guides (feedforward), sensors + evals (feedback), an approval marker per artifact, token accounting per phase, and a skill the orchestrator dispatches to. The product-manager and staff-software-engineer agents chain into the six-stage golden path; the system-architect agent is an optional front stage before it.

Routing

When you type a slash command the entry point is unambiguous. When you describe work in natural language, the main session consults the routing table in AGENTS.md:

Intent	Route
idea → merged PR	/golden-path
draft a spec	product-manager
ship an approved PRP	staff-software-engineer
design a system at scale	system-architect

Adding an agent

1. Create .claude/agents/<name>.md (or <name>/agent.md with bundled assets).
2. Register it in AGENTS.md under the right section.
3. Add .claude/commands/<name>.md if it is slash-invocable.
4. Wire lifecycle hooks under .claude/runtime/hooks/<name>/ if it needs them.

See also

• Pipeline and Stages · Golden Path · Harness Engineering