dev-harness-cli

Agent-agnostic development harness for AI coding agents — gated phase pipeline with a next-step trajectory engine, built-in MCP server, craft skills library, a…

Developer Tools

Install Command

npx -y dev-harness-cli

Claude Desktop Config

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dev-harness-cli": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "dev-harness-cli"
      ]
    }
  }
}

dev-harness-cli is a community MCP server that connects AI assistants like Claude to agent-agnostic development harness for ai coding agents — gated phase pipeline with a next-step trajectory engine, built-in mcp server, craft skills library, a…. It runs locally on your machine, keeping your data private and giving you full control over the connection. Developers can use it to bring AI assistance directly into their build and coding environment.

About dev-harness-cli

Overview

Agent-agnostic development harness for AI coding agents — gated phase pipeline with a next-step trajectory engine, built-in MCP server, craft skills library, and deterministic gate validation. Works inside Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, VS Code, and any MCP-

Topics

harness, developer-tools, ai-agents, phase-pipeline, gate-validation, scaffold, cli, mcp, mcp-server, model-context-protocol, claude-code, codex, cursor, agent-skills

Who Should Use dev-harness-cli?

1Speed up coding workflows by letting Claude interact with your dev environment
2Run terminal commands, manage processes, and inspect logs via AI
3Integrate AI assistance directly into your build and CI pipelines
4Automate repetitive dev tasks like scaffolding, linting, and testing

How to Install dev-harness-cli

Before you start

You will need Node.js (v18 or later) installed on your machine — download it from nodejs.org if you haven't already.

1Open a terminal (Terminal on Mac, Command Prompt or PowerShell on Windows).
2Paste the install command above and press Enter — Node.js will download and run the server automatically.
3Add the server to your Claude Desktop config file (see the JSON snippet above) and restart Claude.

The Claude Desktop config snippet above can be copied and pasted directly into your claude_desktop_config.json file — no editing required.