cc-harness-skills

CC Harness Skills

Portable agent skills distilled from a publicly mirrored CC coding-agent codebase, then rewritten so they can be installed in Claude Code, Codex, and OpenClaw without depending on private runtime internals.

This repo is not a source dump. It is a cleaned skill pack:

• prompts extracted into reusable templates
• host-agnostic helper scripts
• portable SKILL.md bundles
• release and smoke-test docs for public distribution

If you are building with coding agents, these are the parts that usually separate a fun demo from a stable toolchain:

• memory that stays useful instead of rotting
• compression that preserves user corrections
• verification that does not trust “done”
• multi-agent routing that does not pollute the main context
• proactive jobs with explicit limits

This repo packages those patterns into six installable skills.

Why This Exists

Most agent repos share the same hard problems:

• how to keep memory useful without storing stale code facts
• how to compress long conversations without losing user corrections
• how to verify claimed completion instead of trusting it
• how to coordinate multiple agents without turning the main context into garbage
• how to add lightweight proactive behavior without building a dangerous daemon

The six skills in this repo package those patterns into download-ready bundles.

Who This Is For

• builders who want better agent behavior without forking a full agent product
• teams using Claude Code, Codex, or OpenClaw and wanting a shared skill layer
• people studying CC-style harness design but needing something publishable and portable
• anyone who wants prompts plus scripts, not prompts alone

Skill Pack

Public name	Slug	What it does	Best hosts
CC Dream Memory	dream-memory	Consolidates logs, recent sessions, and topic memories into a short durable memory index.	Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw
CC Memory Extractor	memory-extractor	Extracts durable user, feedback, project, and reference memories from recent turns.	Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw
CC Verification Gate	verification-gate	Runs a read-only challenge pass after implementation to distinguish verified from merely claimed done.	Claude Code, Codex
CC Swarm Coordinator	swarm-coordinator	Splits large work into research, synthesis, implementation, and verification with bounded workers.	Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw
CC Context Compressor	structured-context-compressor	Produces a nine-part continuation summary for long sessions and handoffs.	Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw
CC Kairos Lite	kairos-lite	Adds lightweight proactive jobs with schedule, sleep, brief, and expiry rules.	Claude Code, OpenClaw

Each bundle lives in skills/ and includes:

• SKILL.md
• references/prompt-template.md
• references/source-notes.md
• scripts/...
• README.md

Start Here

If you only try three things, try these first:

1. install dream-memory
2. install verification-gate
3. install structured-context-compressor

That gives you one memory workflow, one quality gate, and one continuation artifact. It is the fastest way to feel whether this repo is useful.

Quick Start

Run the basic bundle checks first:

bash ./skills/check_all.sh

Install one skill into a host runtime:

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -R ./skills/dream-memory ~/.claude/skills/

Then invoke it in Claude Code:

Use /dream-memory to consolidate the memory directory before we continue.

mkdir -p ~/.codex/skills
cp -R ./skills/dream-memory ~/.codex/skills/

Then invoke it in Codex:

Use /dream-memory and consolidate recent memory files into one stable index.

mkdir -p ~/.openclaw/workspace/skills
cp -R ./skills/dream-memory ~/.openclaw/workspace/skills/

Then check it in OpenClaw:

openclaw skills info dream-memory

Publish to ClawHub after checks:

bash ./skills/publish_all.sh 0.1.0

Release Docs

• Publisher guide: skills/README.md
• Release order and copy: skills/RELEASE_PLAN.md
• Smoke-test report: skills/TEST_REPORT.md

Naming

Recommended public GitHub repo name: cc-harness-skills

Good alternatives:

• cc-agent-skills
• cc-harness-kit
• cc-portable-skills

The public naming uses CC on purpose: it signals the origin of the ideas without hard-coding a full vendor product name into the repo identity.

What Is Verified

Latest smoke-test status:

• Claude Code: six skills load successfully
• OpenClaw: six skills resolve as Ready
• Codex: bundle structure is verified; runtime smoke test is pending local auth

Full report: skills/TEST_REPORT.md

Project Layout

skills/
  dream-memory/
  memory-extractor/
  verification-gate/
  swarm-coordinator/
  structured-context-compressor/
  kairos-lite/

Internal working notes and non-publishable local experiments still live under .codex/skills/, but the public release surface for this project is the root skills/ directory.