harness-contribute

What problem does it solve?

This Skill automates contributing reusable improvements from a project back into the harness repository by creating a feature branch, mapping and applying changes to harness paths, testing the update, and opening a pull request for review.

Core Features & Use Cases

• File mapping: Maps project-side files (agents, skills, rules, hooks) to the corresponding harness repository paths and treats non-matching files as new additions.
• Judgement workflow: Helps determine whether a change is generic (worth upstreaming) or project-specific, and mandates human confirmation when needed.
• Branch, test, PR flow: Creates a feature branch, applies templated changes preserving Jinja where required, tests them via copier update, and prepares a PR with context and test results.
• Use case: During a retrospective you discover a rules or skill improvement; use this Skill to transform that improvement into a tested harness template and propose it upstream.

Quick Start

Use the harness-contribute skill to create a harness feature branch, apply mapped changes from my project, run copier update to test them, and open a PR explaining what changed and why.