ClaudSkills / Engineering / architecture

Detecting Harness Lockin

Quality score: 70/100 · Category: Engineering · Sub-category: architecture

type:audit

Identifies and quantifies the compounding switching cost of an AI coding agent harness commitment before it becomes invisible. Use when evaluating whether to change AI coding agent platforms, when pricing a harness decision for a team or organization, or when auditing how much process infrastructure has accumulated around a current agent architecture.

What this skill does

Detecting Harness Lockin is a production-ready Claude Code skill (quality score 70/100) in the architecture sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/detecting-harness-lockin/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when evaluating whether to change AI coding agent platforms, when pricing a harness decision for a team or organization, or when auditing how much process infrastructure has accumulated around a current agent architecture.

Who uses this skill

The Detecting Harness Lockin skill is built for software engineers, backend developers, full-stack teams, and technical leads building and maintaining production systems. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 15,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/detecting-harness-lockin
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/detecting-harness-lockin/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/detecting-harness-lockin/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/detecting-harness-lockin/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/detecting-harness-lockin/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\detecting-harness-lockin\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

The ClaudSkills desktop app installs any skill directly into ~/.claude/skills/ with one click — no terminal required. Pro starts at $9/mo or $149 lifetime.

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